The 2012-2013 Season

October 6 – November 4, 2012

Straight from Broadway: A look at the life of football legend Vince Lombardi

November 24 – December 23, 2012

The Andrews Sisters serve up a boogie-woogie delight for the whole family

January 26 – February 17, 2013

A celebration of Minnesota labor activist Nellie Stone Johnson who paved the way for social change.

March 2 – March 24, 2013

Justice Harry Blackmun and Chief Justice Warren Burger look back on a friendship that started in St. Paul and carried them to the Supreme Court of the United States

April 20 – May 19, 2013

A new jazz musical about the vibrant and tumultuous romance of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald.

Raw Stages readings

Monday, January 7 / 7:00 pm

Idealistic Kris Holmgren joins the first large population of women seeking ordination at Princeton Theological Seminary in 1976.

Tuesday, January 8 / 7:00 pm

Around Valentine’s Day local Filipino-Americans get together for the annual Debutantes’ Ball. Through hip-hop and Filipino love songs this new play explores the struggles between tradition and assimilation, parental pressure and independence.

Wednesday, January 9 / 7:00 pm

Meet Augie Garcia, “The Godfather of Minnesota Rock & Roll.” This new work explores the life and times of a Minnesota legend - and his Bermuda shorts!

Thursday, January 10 / 7:00 pm

At age 10 Ronnie Rabinovitz's family was at the intersection of Jack Kennedy's presidential election and Jackie Robinson's baseball career.

Friday, January 11 / 7:00 pm

In the 1890s, a group of Minneapolis businessmen created a “city band of young boys” to keep them off the streets and out of trouble. What began as a rag-tag group of kids, became a city-wide institution that lasted into the middle of the 20th Century.

Saturday, January 12 / 2:00 pm

This new play explores the events leading up to the Dakota-U.S. War through the court trials of the Dakota warriors who were executed by the United States government.

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