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The Duluth Playhouse presents The Light in the Piazza, a musical based on the book by Craig Lucas, with music and lyrics by Adam Guettel. Performances run March 14-30. Travel with American tourists Margaret Johnson and her daughter Clara as they take in the wonders of Florence, Italy, in the summer of 1953. When a fateful gust of wind whisks Clara’s hat into the hands of Fabrizio, it’s amore at first sight. Heralded as a work of consummate beauty when…

UMD presents The Ice Fishing Play a play by Kevin Kling in the Marshall Performing Arts Center - Dudley Experimental Theatre. In The Ice Fishing Play, a parade of colorful characters visit Ron, a taciturn fisherman determined to hunker down in his ice house and finally catch an elusive fish while a blizzard rages outside. As the radio cycles through school closures we come to realize how great the stakes really are for Ron. March 18th, 19th, 20th, 21st &…

UMD presents The Ice Fishing Play a play by Kevin Kling in the Marshall Performing Arts Center - Dudley Experimental Theatre. In The Ice Fishing Play, a parade of colorful characters visit Ron, a taciturn fisherman determined to hunker down in his ice house and finally catch an elusive fish while a blizzard rages outside. As the radio cycles through school closures we come to realize how great the stakes really are for Ron. March 23rd | 2:30 PM Reserved…

Duluth Playhouse presents the play "Every Brilliant Thing". The play, written by Duncan Macmillan, with Jonny Donahoe, runs April 3 - 13. A boy’s handwritten list to cheer up his despondent mom becomes a surprisingly funny and poignant ode to humanity. Every Brilliant Thing invites audiences on a transcendent and tender coming-of-age journey that reminds us to pay attention to life’s smallest joys—and to each other. This hilarious and heart-wrenching play “highlights the irrepressible resilience of the human spirit and…

UMD presents Cabaret, book by Joe Masteroff, music by John Kander, lyrics by Fred Ebb and directed by Thomas Jacobsen at the Marshall Performing Arts Center on the Main Stage. Seductive and sensational, Cabaret is set at a 1930s Berlin nightclub, where the comedic but sinister Emcee ushers us through the story of the romance of American writer Cliff and Kit Kat Klub performer Sally Bowles. Based on the 1998 Broadway revival, the show explores the dark, heady and tumultuous…

UMD presents Cabaret, book by Joe Masteroff, music by John Kander, lyrics by Fred Ebb and directed by Thomas Jacobsen at the Marshall Performing Arts Center on the Main Stage. Seductive and sensational, Cabaret is set at a 1930s Berlin nightclub, where the comedic but sinister Emcee ushers us through the story of the romance of American writer Cliff and Kit Kat Klub performer Sally Bowles. Based on the 1998 Broadway revival, the show explores the dark, heady and tumultuous…

UMD presents Cabaret, book by Joe Masteroff, music by John Kander, lyrics by Fred Ebb and directed by Thomas Jacobsen at the Marshall Performing Arts Center on the Main Stage. Seductive and sensational, Cabaret is set at a 1930s Berlin nightclub, where the comedic but sinister Emcee ushers us through the story of the romance of American writer Cliff and Kit Kat Klub performer Sally Bowles. Based on the 1998 Broadway revival, the show explores the dark, heady and tumultuous…

UMD presents Cabaret, book by Joe Masteroff, music by John Kander, lyrics by Fred Ebb and directed by Thomas Jacobsen at the Marshall Performing Arts Center on the Main Stage. Seductive and sensational, Cabaret is set at a 1930s Berlin nightclub, where the comedic but sinister Emcee ushers us through the story of the romance of American writer Cliff and Kit Kat Klub performer Sally Bowles. Based on the 1998 Broadway revival, the show explores the dark, heady and tumultuous…

Everything is perfect - the house is tidy, the table is set, and Judy’s dress is pressed for when she greets Johnny at the door, martini in hand. It is the 1950s, and life is ordered just right. Or is it? As the fantasy fades, the edges of this perfect life start to unravel, and they discover that things are not quite what they seem. In Home, I’m Darling, playwright Laura Wade explores the complications of marriage and cake and…

Duluth playhouse puts on the original musical "Waitress" at the NorShor Theatre. Opening night is July 11 and the play runs through July 27. Book by Jessie Nelson. Featuring original music and lyrics by Grammy Award winner Sara Bareilles ("Brave," "Love Song"), Waitress has been praised by audiences and critics alike. Jenna, a waitress and expert pie-maker, dreams of a way out of her small town and rocky marriage. A baking contest in a nearby county offers her a chance…