Our 2024 Season!
Winter Play
Inherit the Wind
by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee
Directed by Michelle Schwantes
This lively courtroom drama dives into the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial, where a Tennessee teacher was tried for teaching the theory of evolution. Two persuasive attorneys argue the case in an effort to determine the balance of church and state. One of the most outstanding dramas of our time.
“The portrait it draws of an explosive episode in American culture, vigorously written by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, remains as fresh as it ever was. One of the most stirring plays in recent years… Bursting with vitality…Literature of the stage!” —The New York Times.
March 15 and 16, 7:00 pm
March 17, 2:00 pm
March 22 and 23, 7:00 pm
March 24, 2:00 pm
PIM Arts High School
Loading Dock Theatre
7255 Flying Cloud Dr.
Eden Prairie, MN
INHERIT THE WIND is presented by special arrangement with Broadway Licensing, LLC, servicing the Dramatists Play Service collection. (www.dramatists.com)
Women’s One Acts+
Play selections:
Lady of the Manor by Debra Cole
Folded by Bara Swain
Parental Guidance by Noa Najar
Timber by Lindsey Brown
The Sitting by Pam Kingsley
Secondhand Soul by Ava Love Hanna
May 10 and 11, 7:30 pm
May 16, 17, and 18, 7:30 pm
May 19, 2:00 pm
Riley-Jacques Barn
9100 Riley Lake Road
Eden Prairie, MN
Summer Musical
Disney’s The Little Mermaid
Music by Alan Menken
Lyrics by Howard Ashman & Glenn Slater
Book by Doug Wright
Based on the Hans Christian Andersen story and the Disney film that was produced by Howard Ashman & John Musker and written & directed by John Musker & Ron Clements. Originally Produced by Disney Theatrical Productions
In a magical kingdom beneath the sea, the beautiful young mermaid Ariel longs to leave her ocean home to live in the world above.
Based on one of Hans Christian Andersen’s most beloved stories and the classic animated film, Disney’s The Little Mermaid is a hauntingly beautiful love story for the ages. With music by eight-time Academy Award® winner Alan Menken, this enchanting musical will capture your heart. Disney’s The Little Mermaid offers a fantastic creative opportunity for rich costumes and sets as well as the chance to perform some of the best-known songs from the past 30 years.
June 21, 22, and 23, 7:00 pm
June 27, 28, 29, and 30, 7:00 pm
Staring Lake Amphitheatre
14800 Pioneer Trail
Eden Prairie, MN
Disney’s The Little Mermaid is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. www.MTIshows.com
Children’s Theatre Workshop
Porridgegate
by Charlie Lovett
directed by Dr. Gina Light
A hilarious send-up of not one, but two fairy tales, Porridgegate will have audiences aching with laughter... though possibly not wanting to eat porridge ever again! Ursula Bear buys her porridge by the 50-pound precooked bag. But her husband Builda and her son Teddy think the porridge smells like swamp mud and tastes like secondhand fish eyes! So only Ursula is upset when a bowl of porridge goes missing and scandal breaks out in the forest. As usual in Wychwood-under-Ooze, things are not exactly what they seem!
July 26 and 27, 2:00 pm and 7:00 pm
Riley-Jacques Barn
9100 Riley Lake Road
Eden Prairie, MN
Produced by special arrangement with Pioneer Drama Service, Inc., Englewood, Colorado
Collection of One Acts
Play selections to be announced.
September 13 and 14, 7:30 pm
September 15, 2:00 pm
September 19, 20, and 21, 7:30 pm
September 22, 2:00 pm
Riley-Jacques Barn
9100 Riley Lake Road
Eden Prairie, MN