Performing Arts

What do Led Zeppelin, Jethro Tull, Janis Joplin and Santa Claus have in common? They’re all part of the Rock & Roll Christmas Show. For the ninth consecutive year, the holiday season will be raucously kicked off when the perennial favorite hits the stage for one show only, Friday December 15 …

Imagine a world in the not-too-distant future without any electrical power. How would humankind survive? What vestiges of current culture would remain? And in what form? This is the premise of Anne Washburn’s critically-acclaimed play ‘Mr. Burns—A Post-Electric Play,’ which is next up on the schedule for Brainerd Community Theatre. …

Auditions will be held for the Brainerd Community Theatre production of ‘Five Women Wearing the Same Dress’ on December 5th and 6th at 6 pm at the Dryden Theatre on the Brainerd Campus of Central Lakes College. Alan Ball’s sharp comedy will be performed at 7:30 pm on February 22-24 and March …

In commemoration of Veterans’ Day, the Central Lakes Community Performing Arts Center will present ‘Ghosts of War’ at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday November 9. The play is a production of the Griffin Theatre of Chicago, and will be performed in the Chalberg Theatre on the Brainerd campus of Central Lakes …

“Ever since I was a young boy I played the silver ball. ” Maybe not your standard bluegrass lyric, but a line known by all the world from the biggest rock opera of all time, The Who’s Tommy.   This classic of classic rock has now been fully realized as …

  Just in time for Halloween, Brainerd Community Theatre is presenting the chilling ghost play ‘The Woman in Black.’ Performances in the Chalberg Theatre will be at 7:30 p.m. on October 26-28, with an additional 2 p.m. matinee on the 28th. Adapted for the stage by Stephen Mallatrat from the …

December 4th 1956 was a wonderful occasion for rock and roll. Wonderful because it was a night that was to see four large music talents, Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis and Johnny Cash all sharing a microphone, jamming in a studio and leaving behind unbeknownst to them a live …

The Finnish company Theater Fiasko will perform ‘The Reading Room,’ a one-act play based on a short story of the same name, written by local writer Ann Toumi. The single performance will be at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, September 26 in the Chalberg Theatre on the Brainerd campus of Central …

The Central Lakes Community Performing Arts Center continues its Cultural Arts Series season with Rogue Valley, a Minneapolis Americana band, on Friday October 6. The group’s performance will be at 7:30 p.m. in the Chalberg Theatre on the Brainerd campus of Central Lakes College. Rogue Valley takes its name from …

Ballet is returning to Brainerd, when the Central Lakes Community Performing Arts Center at Central Lakes College presents the Continental Ballet Company’s production of Coppelia. Two performances are scheduled at 1 and 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, September 30, in the Chalberg Theatre on the Brainerd campus of CLC. Continental Ballet …