The Menomonie Theater Guild presents this play about family, friendship, love, and life in the small town of Grover's Corners, New Hampshire. Performances will take place the weekend of Friday, May 3 through May 5 at the Mabel Tainter Center for the
The Big River Radio Wave is an hour-long variety show with performers, themes and topics native to the rural upper Midwest area in which the show is performed, but easily accessible to a wider audience. This performance ...
On Thursday, April 18 the opening night of Shakespeare's classic comedy A Midsummer Night's Dream 'twas staged at the Riverside Theater in the Haas Fine Arts Building. The the Steampunk re-imagined show, directed by F. Reed Brown, runs through...
BareBones Improv returned from a several-month hiatus for a stripped-down night of improvised comedy fun on Thursday, March 7 at the House of Rock. Expect to both enthusiastically laugh and uncomfortably cringe.
Die Fledermaus is an operetta by Austrian composer Johann Strauss II. Set in Vienna at Prince Orlofsky's ball, party-goers frolic through a series of mistaken identities, ridiculous trysts, and madcap deceits. This production is directed by Mitra Sad
Based on the story of the real-life relationship of Marvin Hamlisch (who wrote the music) and Carole Bayer Sager (who wrote the lyrics), a wise-cracking composer finds a new, offbeat lyricist, but the match isn’t necessarily made in heaven. Written by Neil Simon. This performance took place on Thursday, February 14 at the Grand Theater.
Orphaned in India, 11 year old Mary Lennox returns to Yorkshire to live with her reclusive uncle Archibald and his invalid son Colin. The estate's many wonders include a magical garden, which beckons the children with haunting melodies and the "Dream
Founded in 2004 by brothers Rick and Andy Ausland, Minneapolis-based "Buckets and Tap Shoes" is an explosive, high-energy rhythmic journey. The multi-talented performers have astounded world-wide audiences with their dancing, and create music ...
On Thursday, January 17 Cabaret XXXV opened at the Davies Ballroom. The show features student performers from ensembles in the music and theatre arts department as well as various small acts and solo performers, including The Singing Statesmen, Wom
King Arthur has drawn the famed sword, Excalibur, from the mystical lake of Avalon. He now wields the mighty weapon in the retaking of his homeland from the Saxons. Plagued by the evil Morgana le Fay, warned by the Lady of the Lake, Nimue, and guide
On Friday, November 30 The Eau Claire Improv Fest started out the weekend at Memorial High School. The festival features a variety of local and touring improv comedy performances at several venues in Eau Claire. Groups performing include: Memorial High School Alumni Team, Titanic, Fresh Concepts, Chaos Lifeguard, and Funny, Son of Story.
In this swashbuckling adventure, join Peter Pan, Tinker Bell, Wendy, Michael, John, Captain Hook and his pirates for this high-flying musical masterpiece. Presented by the Eau Claire Children's Theatre, this performance took place at the State Theat
Winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award for Best Play, {Proof} combines elements of mystery and surprise with old-fashioned story-telling. A troubled young woman must deal with the death of her brilliant but unstable father, a famous ...
This interactive show brings the world's best known suspects to life and invites the audience to help solve the mystery. Audience members received game cards to play along with the show, with 216 possible endings. This performance took place on Thurs
On Saturday, October 13 the Eau Claire Children's Theatre presented "Ramona Quimby" at the Oxford. This is a stage play based on Beverly Cleary's beloved books. Beezus introduces her younger sister, Ramona, a 3rd grader known for getting into trouble and making a fuss when things don't go her way.
On October 5, the Volume One Gallery hosted its first ever poetry performance – "Gallery of Poems: An Evening of Neural Rewiring ." The lineup included Kinzy Janssen, Alan Jenkins, Noel Kroeplin, and Jason Splichal ...
Comedian Ron "Tater Salad" White, best known as the cigar smoking, scotch drinking funnyman from the "Blue Collar Comedy" phenomenon returns with his new stand-up show, Moral Compass. The event took place on Saturday, Septemeber 15. Alex Reymundo op
The Eau Claire-based improv group Shambles (Shane Leonard and Amber Dernbach) performed at the charming "Gilbert Garage" last night. (Both performers are also members of local group The Improv Lab). It was their last show of the summer, but ...
The 4th annual Shakespeare in the Park took place Aug. 3-5 at the Wilson Park band shell in Menomonie. The Menomonie Theater Guild presented a free performance of "Much Ado About Nothing."
Presented by the Menomonie Theater Guild's Red Cedar Youth Stage, this production features many favorite Dr. Seuss characters, including Horton the Elephant, The Cat in the Hat, Gertrude McFuzz, Lazy Mayzie and more. The opening night was on ...
The Chippewa Valley Theatre Guild performed The Wizard of Oz at The State Theatre June 28 through July 1. Based on L. Frank Baum's classic story of Dorothy Gale being swept away to the magical Land of Oz, the show received great feedback and ...
On Thursday, April 5, The Improv Lab (an offshoot of BareBones Ensemble Theatre) hit the Stones Throw in downtown Eau Claire for one of their semi-regular shows – a stripped-down, free form presentation of improvised theater and comedy.
Millie is a young bride living in 1850s Oregon whose plan to civilize and marry off her six rowdy brothers-in-law backfires when the brothers, in their enthusiasm, kidnap six women from a neighboring town to be their brides. This Eau Claire Children
Comedian Bill Engvall gained fame touring with the Blue Collar Comedy Tour and currently stars in and produces the TBS sitcom "The Bill Engvall Show" and hosts CMT's "Country Fried Home Videos." Engvall graced Eau Claire's State Theatre with ...
God of Carnage, presented by BareBones Ensemble Theatre, was staged at The Grand Theatre February 23-25. The play asks you, "What happens when civilized parents meet to discuss their children’s destructive behavior?" The 2009 Tony award ...
Jawaahir (juh-WAH-heer), meaning jewels in Arabic, is the only professional Middle Eastern dance company in the Midwest. Since its founding in 1989 by Artistic Director Cassandra Shore, Jawaahir has grown to 17 members and has performed throughout...
The Little Sisters of Hoboken have been invited to sing at the Hollywood Bowl. They’re thrilled at the prospect until they arrive and realize that they are booked into the Hollywood Bowl-A-Rama, a bowling alley and lounge and not the famous ...
On Sunday, December 11 the UWEC Concert Dance Company presented it's Holiday Spectacular with a fun variety of holiday themed dances and current repertory works. Proceeds supported the UWEC Concert Dance Company.
This Christmas favorite was stage by the Chippewa Valley Theater Guild (December 1-18). Adapted from the classic holiday film, It’s a Wonderful Life, this play is performed as a 1940’s, live radio broadcast in front of a “studio audience.”
On Friday and Saturday (Dec. 2 and 3), UW-Eau Claire Chamber Choir members threw on some Renaissance period costumes the perform music from the madrigal tradition as well as songs of the holiday season, whilst patrons feasted in the Davies Center.
From Nov. 17-19, BareBones Ensemble Theatre re-staged Peter Sinn Nachtrieb’s Hunter Gatherers (this time at The Grand Theatre) – a play about a dinner date gone awry ...
On Saturday, Nov 19 the Eau Claire Children's Theatre presented the musical adaptation of this popular holiday favorite. A gentleman claiming to be the real Santa Claus brings about a genuine "Miracle on 34th Street" by convincing a cynical single m
On Saturday, November 12, the Found Footage Festival returned to the Downtown Cinema in downtown Eau Claire, but this year the brought alone Found Magazine for a Found vs. Found battle royale, pitting FFF's nutty obscure video footage against ...
The entire Poznarski clan is set to get together for the holidays. Rudy is determined to have a “back to the basics” Christmas so he books a rustic lodge in the middle of nowhere. With a little holiday magic, Rudy’s mom and estranged dad make an appe
The Eau Claire Children's Theater's production of Footloose: The Musical ran October 21-23 at the State Theatre, proving that oppressive small towns that ban dancing are no match for Ren McCormack and a school full of teenagers begging to cut a rug.
With its final show on Sunday, Oct. 16, The Menomonie Theater Guild's production of A Streetcar Named Desire ran for five performances of classic stage drama, Tennessee Williams style.
On Saturday, October 1, the Eau Claire Children's Theater held their 15th annual Murder Mystery Dinner Theater at The Oxford. When noted cookbook author and critic Marjorie Richmond is murdered at a dinner in her honor, everyone’s a suspect. Was it h
The Super Happy Funtime Burlesque Show came to The Eau Claire House of Rock on Thursday, September 15, billed as "the biggest and best comedy music cabaret and burlesque show in the Midwest that does striptease and magic from theaters in ...
The Grand Little Theatre played host to an original stage adaptation of Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Sept. 2,3 & 9,10), a rock musical about a fictional rock and roll band fronted by an East German transgender singer.
Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Roald Dahl classic and staged by the Menomonie Theater Guild ... twenty area youth brought this remarkable stage version to life.
Puck, Oberon, and Titania pull the strings as a pair of mortal lovers play victim to their fairy magic. Directed by Ryan Peterson, the production's energetic cast transformed the park into a mystical woodland realm in this hilarious classic...
As the culmination of a three-week theater day camp for 52 area kids, the Menomonie Theater Guild performed multiple double features of "The Jungle Book Kids" & "Annie Jr." at the Mable Tainter the weekend of July, 15.
Every week after Volume One's Sounds Like Summer Concert Series in Phoenix Park on Thursdays, the High Octane Fire Troop takes the labyrinth to entertain the crowd at dusk.
On Saturday, June 18 the Missoula Chidren's Theater performed Robin Hood at the Heyde Center in Chippewa Falls. The time is long ago; the place is the magical mystical Sherwood Forest ...
On Friday, May 6 Mel Brooks' laugh-out-loud musical, The Producers, was performed by the Chippewa Valley Theater Guild at the State Theater. A scheming producer and his mousy accountant discover that under the right circumstances they can make more
A funny, insightful, heartwarming look at what is profound in everyday life. An evening of theatrical storytelling with monologues, dialogues, and seven original songs. The delightful stories feature colorful characters such as: a shy little boy ...
In this utterly delightful new musical, Pinkalicious just can’t stop eating pink cupcakes. Her indulgence lands her at the doctor’s office with Pinkititis, an affliction that turns her pink from head to toe. When her hue goes too far, only Pinkalicio
UW-Eau Claire's annual DanceWorks production was staged March 31–April 2 in Kjer Theatre. Held every Spring, DanceWorks has students preforming routines celebrating ballet, jazz, tap, modern, and ethnic dances. This year's production included ...
On Friday, February 25, the BareBones Ensemble Theatre performed "Hunter Gatherers" at the Grand Little Theater. "Hunter Gatherers" is a dark satirical comedy written by San Francisco-based playwright Peter Nachtrieb, who dares the audience to face t
Presented by the Menomonie Theatre Guild, in the world's most beloved musical, a postulant is dispatched to serve as governess for the seven children of a widowed naval captain. Her growing rapport with the youngsters, coupled with her generosity of
On Friday, Jan 28 MTG's Red Cedar Youth Stage presented "The Tempest," an adaptation of Shakespeare's classic, at the Mable Tainter Theater in Menomonie.
On Thursday, Jan 27, Winter Dance Party, the official live and authentic tribute show, recreated Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper's final tour at the State Theater. Each concert included over two hours of unbridled, high-voltage enterta
The Chippewa Valley Theatre Guild's production of Irving Berlin's White Christmas ran Dec. 16-19 at The State Theatre. There was dancing, romance, laughter, and some of the greatest Christmas songs ever written.
A 1993 Pulitzer Prize winning drama, Angels in America is set in late 1985 and early 1986, as the first wave of the AIDS epidemic in America is escalating. The play weaves multiple stories together that range from Earth to Heaven; from the political
On December 2, the Grand Little Theatre set the stage for a Very Merry Holiday Extravaganza when the BareBones Improv Ensemble took the stage. They perform a weird set of scenes, games, and duels all based on audience suggestions.
The actors of Menomonie Theatre Guild are revving up for a lighthearted performance of Best Christmas Pageant Ever. In case you’ve never heard of it, the plot:When a couple attempts to produce a Christmas pageant after casting devilish children ...
In Underneath the Lintel, a reclusive librarian finds a book 123 years overdue and he's compelled to embark on a worldwide quest to track down the borrower. In the process he uncovers a mystery that transcends the ages.
In the 1960s Baltimore, the 50s are out and change is in the air. When plus-size heroine Tracy Turnblad wins a spot on the local TV dance program, she becomes an overnight sensation. Can she vanquish the program's reining princess, integrate the TV…
On Saturday, Dec 19 the ECCT performed "The Best Christmas Pageant Ever" at the State Theater. Audiences enjoyed the escapades of the Herdmans as they learned the true meaning of the holidays in this heart-warming classic.
On Sat, Dec 5, the CVTG performed Jacob Marley's Christmas Carol. However, this was not the same old Christmas Carol. It was time for Jacob Marley to tell the true story about his efforts to save old Scrooge’s soul.
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