Triassic Parq by Minneapolis Musical Theatre

We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: If you want to see “rare musicals, well done” (their mission), you have to check out Minneapolis Musical Theatre. We’ve followed them for years and they excel in presenting fun, quirky, and heartfelt productions of musicals you won’t see anywhere else.

Their current show, Triassic Parq, performed at Lush Lounge and Theater through April 13, is so tremendously rare, we've never even heard of it. And to be honest? It's a little bananas. It's about dinosaurs and gender, and faith and science, and it's utterly filled with chaos and camp. We've never seen anything like it. 

Life of Pi National Tour at the Orpheum Theatre

Life of Pi was originally a Booker Prize-winning 2001 novel by Yann Martel, which was also made into a 2012 film by Ang Lee. The play, adapted by Lolita Chakrabarti, had successful runs in London's West End and then on Broadway. Now, the national tour of the play has opened at the Orpheum Theatre in Minneapolis, playing through March 9.

Taha Mandviwala as 'Pi' and puppeteers Anna Leigh Gortner,

Shiloh Goodin and Toussaint Jeanlouis as 'Richard Parker'

in the National Tour of LIFE OF PI. 

Photo by Evan Zimmerman for MurphyMade.