Roe – March 2019
ROE March 15 – 31, 2019 By Lisa Loomer | Directed by Mark Valdez Meet the Cast and Creative Team ROE, a theatrical survey of the complicated and fiery underpinnings of Roe v. Wade, the U.S. Supreme...
View ArticleAutonomy – May 2019
Autonomy May 9-12 By Ken LaZebnik | Directed by Jack Reuler Saint Paul RiverCentre Part Disney ride, part auto show, and part drive-in theater. This nine-scene theatrical extravaganza ushers its...
View ArticlePrescient Harbingers – November 2018
PreviousNext1234 Prescient Harbingers 3 Full-Length Plays by African American Provocateurs Performed in Rotating Rep November 17 – December 2, 2018 PRESCIENT HARBINGERS is three plays glued together by...
View ArticleIs God Is – September 2018
Is God Is September 21 – October 14, 2018 By Aleshea Harris | Directed by Nataki Garrett Winner of the 2018 Obie Award for playwright, director, and lead actors, IS GOD IS is an epic woman’s revenge...
View ArticleThe finest on-stage work in the country
The Minnesota theater community offers its audiences the finest on-stage work in the country. It continues to be a treasure bringing quality to the lives of many, though not yet all, Minnesotans....
View ArticleMixed Blood announces the World Premiere of the Queer Asian Pop-Rock Poetry...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 30, 2019 Media Contacts: The PR Team, pr@mixedblood.com (Minneapolis/St. Paul) – Mixed Blood Theatre will premiere the new musical Interstate as the headliner of its 44th...
View ArticleIt’s always personal…
To be in America, must it be a rite of passage to be directly impacted by gun violence? We can all recount the cascade of mass shootings since Columbine, if we can even remember all of them. But on...
View ArticleMixed Blood Theatre announces Lauren Yee’s comedy THE SONG OF SUMMER as the...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: August 8, 2019 Media Contacts: The PR Team, pr@mixedblood.com Mixed Blood Announces Lauren Yee’s comedy THE SONG OF SUMMER as the opening offering of its 44th season, directed by...
View ArticleHas the future come?
In 1987, a man named Curt Jones froze ice cream into pellets with liquid nitrogen, named them Dippin’ Dots, and eventually dubbed them “Ice Cream of the Future.” Decades later can it still be ice cream...
View ArticleThe song that is played relentlessly on the radio
At the core of our next show, THE SONG OF SUMMER by Lauren Yee, is a question of authenticity of authorship of “the song of summer,” that song that is played relentlessly on the radio from May to Labor...
View ArticleGive not from abundance, but from desire to make change
When my perfect daughter was seven she uncharacteristically did something wrong. It became a learning opportunity. We set up a lemonade stand in the parking lot of the Hiawatha Golf Course in south...
View ArticleMixed Blood Announces It’s 44th Season Headliner: Interstate
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: December 19, 2019 Media Contacts: The PR Team, pr@mixedblood.com Tim Komatsu, 612-338-0937 PHOTO LINK: mixedblood.com/interstate-media-page Mixed Blood announces the World...
View ArticleA Decade in Review
As the media, families, and communities reflect on the past decade as 2019 comes to an end, so shall we at Mixed Blood. This is purely my subjective take on the highlights (and some lowlights) since...
View ArticleZealous Hellion: Andrea Jenkins
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: JANUARY 2, 2020 Media Contacts: The PR Team, pr@mixedblood.com Tim Komatsu, (612) 338-0937 Mixed Blood ZEALOUS HELLIONS Series Presents ANDREA JENKINS in conversation with...
View ArticleDr. Kingpin 2020 Teams
Thanks to all of the incredible teams that joined us for Dr. Kingpin 2020! WINNERS of Kingpin 2020: "The Renaissance Men"INDIVIDUAL WINNER of Dr. Kingpin 2020: Pat O’BrienMixed Blood BoardMixed Blood...
View ArticleAn Interview with INTERSTATE Director Jesca Prudencio
We sat down with INTERSTATE director Jesca Prudencio to talk about the joys of creating a world premiere, the importance of community in theatre, and whether or not any Minneapolis DJs should be...
View ArticleAndrea’s Interstate Documentary Blog – Introduction
Oh hey! My name is Andrea. I am an intern this season at Mixed Blood Theatre working on a documentary project for the upcoming world premier of Interstate, a Queer Asian American pop-rock poetry...
View ArticleAn Interview with INTERSTATE Writers/Composers Kit Yan and Melissa Li
Can you tell me a little bit about the inspiration for the show? ML: It’s a semi-autobiographical show. Kit and I met in Boston a really long time ago when we both performed at a monthly Queer Asian...
View ArticleInterstate Documentary Intern Blog — Theatre, Public History, and Learning...
Feb. 17, 2020 Interstate Concept Design by Justin Humphres (12/2/2019) I began recording on Tuesday at Interstate’s first rehearsal. Director Jesca Prudencio, writers Kit Yan and Melissa Li, and all of...
View ArticleA History of Firehouse Musicals
In two weeks we open a great new musical, Interstate, that is vintage Mixed Blood: substantive, entertaining, predictably unpredictable, and bringing together people with difference. The firehouse...
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