Upcoming Events
Below is a list of current upcoming events in the Orpheum, State, Pantages and Dudley Riggs theatres, including shows presented by Hennepin Theatre Trust as well as promoters who have rented our theatres.
Learn more about how to rent our theatres and our rental policy.
It’s summer in Minnesota; that time when we emerge from our burrows to bask in the wonder of unending road construction. It is a glorious time of cramming six months of fun into two weeks of pleasant weather. No one…
JUNE 12 LINEUP June 13 lineup Come celebrate the best of Minnesota high school theater at Spotlight Showcase! Over 1,600 students will participate in the awards and recognition event, presented by Hennepin Theatre Trust’s Spotlight Education program. After a season of Spotlight-evaluated plays…
Chicks in the Office is back on the road. Brand new cities. Special guests, trivia and prizes, drinks and more. This tour is for the most humble fans in the game. We’re bringing all the Friday Energy with us to…
Call it “musical comedy heaven” (Rolling Stone). Call it “the most uproarious new musical in years!” (The Hollywood Reporter). Call it Tootsie! This laugh-out-loud love letter to the theater tells the story of Michael Dorsey, a talented but difficult actor…
Kick off the summer with some laughs! Comedy writer Colin Jost will be coming to Minneapolis on June 22. Jost serves as a head writer at Saturday Night Live and has won five Writers Guild Awards, two Peabody Awards, and has…
Kansas: Another Fork in the Road – 50th Anniversary Tour is confirmed for Friday July 14th at the State Theatre. Kansas fans will hear Classics such as ‘Carry On Wayward Son,’ ‘Dust in the Wind,’ ‘Point of Know Return, ‘Fight…
Please Don’t Destroy is made up of Ben Marshall, John Higgins and Martin Herlihy. They are currently writing and making videos for Saturday Night Live – favorites include “Three Sad Virgins” featuring Taylor Swift and Pete Davidson, “Good Variant,” “Hard…
Trey Kennedy, comedian, actor and singer known for his YouTube and TikTok videos is confirmed for Saturday, July 15 at the Orpheum Theatre. Trey has had media success on Instagram and TikTok where he has a combined 12+ million followers.…
Ann Wilson, known the world over as a founder and the lead singer-songwriter of the barrier-breaking band Heart, is here to stay. Widely praised among the greatest singers in the history of rock, Ann’s extraordinarily powerful voice has been sending…
Danielle Fishel, Rider Strong and Will Friedle host Pod Meets World, an iHeart Media podcast where they rewatch, and earnestly react, to the ‘90s sitcom they starred in, Boy Meets World, now 30 years later. Accumulating over 13 million downloads…
RESCHEDULED: Dave Mason presented by One Eleven Productions and Danny Zelisko Presents
Dave Mason’s performance which was originally scheduled for Saturday May 20, has been rescheduled to Tuesday July 25. All tickets issued for the original date will be honored at the new date. Dave Mason’s career spans half a century and…
Miranda Sings featuring Colleen Ballinger presented by Emporium Presents
Miranda Sings will be making her way back to Minneapolis at the Pantages Theatre on Thursday, July 27, 2023 Meet and Greet Ticket – $90 Pre-show Q and A Photo with Colleen Premium seating Early entry at 3:30 p.m. (4…
The Bald and The Beautiful: A Live Podcast Recording presented Obsessed Presents
The Bald and the Beautiful with Trixie Mattel and Katya Zamo features a pair of grizzled gay ghouls exploring the culture boundaries of modern beauty through interviews with gorgeous guests who inhabit various facets of the beauty industry. From models,…
RuPaul’s Drag Race – Werq The World Tour 2023 will coming to the State Theatre on Tuesday, August 1. In this show, perception is not reality… Asia O’Hara, Daya Betty, Jorgeous, Kandy Muse, Naomi Smalls, Plastique and select finalists from…
The Golden Girls are back! Miami’s sassiest seniors have returned for one more hurrah. 2023 finds Sophia out on bail, after being busted by the DEA for running a drug ring for retirees. Blanche and Rose have founded CreakN, a…
Some shows you see. This show you feel. Joy, love, heartache, strength, wisdom, catharsis, life — everything we’ve been waiting to see in a Broadway show — is here in the exhilarating, fearless new musical based on Alanis Morissette’s world-changing…
It’s appropriate that Boz Scaggs’ latest album is Out of the Blues, since the blues is what first sparked his five-decade musical career. Born William Royce Scaggs in Canton, Ohio on June 8, 1944, he grew up in Oklahoma and…
Ed Sheeran: Subract Tour presented by Live Nation
Global superstar Ed Sheeran has announced details for the “- Tour” a very special run of dates set to take place in theaters and auditoriums in 14 cities across North America. Singer-songwriter Ben Kweller supports in Minneapolis. These intimate performances…
True crime is all the rage in the podcast world these days, thanks in no small part to offerings such as “Small Town Murder.” The brainchild of two Phoenix-based comedians, James Pietragallo and Jimmie Whisman, “Small Town Murder” focuses on—as…
Sigur Rós with The Wordless Orchestra presented by AEG Presents
Iceland’s Sigur Rós will be returning to the State Theatre on Monday, August 21, 2023. Promising a brand new show, they will draw on their illustrious seven-album career, while fixing their gaze firmly on what’s around the corner. As ever…
Bluey’s Big Play is a brand-new theatrical adaptation of the Emmy® award-winning children’s television series, with an original story by Bluey creator Joe Brumm, and new music by Bluey composer, Joff Bush. Join the Heelers in their first live theatre…
Brian Murphy, Emily Axford, Caldwell Tanner and Jake Hurwitz are the hosts of DUNGEON COURT, an improvised live trial that asks the question, “What if Judge Judy was all about D&D?” In this show, the “Justices” read cases from listeners’ D&D tables…
Brad Williams has become one of the funniest, most in-demand comedians working today. A California native, Brad started doing stand-up at age 19 and has been touring ever since.
This show has been rescheduled to Friday, September 15, 2023. A note from Steven Sharp Nelson: My Dear Friends, We need to postpone our upcoming October Tour. Many of you know a little about my hero. I’ve told his story…
Nicole Byer, an American comedian, actress and television host is confirmed for Saturday, September 16 at the Pantages Theatre at 7 p.m. She is known as the host of the Netflix comedic reality bake-off series Nailed It!, for which she…
Dance alert: The artists requests that dancing patrons will not be told to sit down. Please select your seating locations accordingly. The Mavericks, the eclectic rock and country group known for crisscrossing musical boundaries with abandon, has gone through three…
Due to the tour production schedule moving later in 2022, the highly anticipated Minneapolis engagement of Beetlejuice has been rescheduled to close out the 2022-2023 Bank of America Broadway on Hennepin Season. Originally scheduled for September 2022, the new dates…
Kevin James will be making his way to the State Theatre on Saturday September 23, 2023. Kevin George Knipfing (born April 26, 1965), better known by his stage name Kevin James, is an American comedian and actor. In television, James…
Drew Lynch will be making his way to the Pantages Theatre on Saturday, September 30, 2023 Drew Lynch captured the hearts of America with his Golden Buzzer performance on Season 10 of America’s Got Talent, where he finished in second…
Classic Rock Band Three Dog Night, celebrating nearly five decades, claims some of the most astonishing statistics in popular music. They charted more Top 10 hits than any other music act from 1969-1974 with Rock classics like Mama Told Me…
Join Ray LaMontagne and his trio this fall for a special edition of the Just Passing Through tour as Ray performs a fan requested set list from across his catalog. Ray’s vast catalog spans eight full length records, multiple Grammy…
Performing songs from his extensive catalog, Cave will make a stop at the beautiful State Theatre in Minneapolis on a rare solo tour. Cave will be accompanied by Colin Greenwood on bass guitar. Nick Cave has been performing, writing and…
Experience the excitement of ghost hunting with the ghoul boys as we present a special screening of a never-before-seen episode of Ghost Files, followed by an exclusive Q an A session with the hosts themselves —Ryan Bergara and Shane Madej.…
Wolf has quickly become one of the most influential voices in the comedy landscape with the Village Voice calling her “the voice comedy needs right now” and The Daily Beast declaring, “Michelle Wolf is the future of stand-up comedy.” Her most recent Netflix special, Michelle…
Ben can be seen in Lord & Miller’s AppleTV+ miniseries “The Afterparty,” as well as the second season of Greg Daniels and Steve Carell’s Netflix series “Space Force,” in which he stars opposite stars Carell and John Malkovich. Ben is…
Tony Hinchcliffe: Fully Groan Tour presented by Outback presents
Tony Hinchcliffe is a touring stand up comedian, writer and podcast host based out of Austin, Texas. Hinchcliffe began his career cutting his teeth at the renowned Comedy Store in Los Angeles—evolving from a door guy saturated in the world…
Girl From The North Country is the Tony Award-winning new musical that the Chicago Tribune declares is “a Broadway revelation!” Written and directed by celebrated playwright Conor McPherson and featuring Tony Award-winning orchestrations by Simon Hale, Girl From The North Country reimagines 20…
An Evening with Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer, and Shahzad Ismaily: Love in Exile
Love In Exile. Three world-class musicians meet in New York City to forge a singular voice that takes their distinct backgrounds and vast histories of collaboration as a starting point. From there they explore one-of-a-kind performances defined by a sense…
Bonnie Raitt: Just Like That… Tour 2023
Bonnie Raitt returns to the stage with Just Like That… Tour 2023, which features music from her latest studio album, including the 2023 Song of the Year, alongside her classic hits. Throughout her career, singer, songwriter and guitarist Bonnie Raitt…
Fortune Feimster: Live Laugh Love! presented Outback Presents
Fortune Feimster will be making her way back to the Twin Cities on Saturday, October 14, 2023 at the State Theatre. Emily Fortune Feimster is an American writer, comedian and actress. Feimster made her television debut on NBC’s Last Comic…
Star of the UK’s most streamed Netfix comedy special of 2021, Jimmy is back on the road with brand new material for 2022 and 2023. Jimmy’s show contains jokes about all kinds of terrible things. Terrible things that might have…
Encanto: The Sing-Along Film Concert presented by Premier Productions
Disney’s Encanto: The Sing-Along Film Concert Tour, where Walt Disney Animation Studios’ Academy Award®-winning film comes to life in a one-of-a-kind concert event, featuring the entire feature-length film and an on-stage band celebrating all the record-breaking hit songs from the…
Declared by The Washington Post as “unforgiving and darkly hilarious,” Patricia Williams (aka Ms. Pat) is a comedian, author, radio host, podcaster and actress whose Emmy-nominated multi-cam series The Ms. Pat Show premiered its second season on August 11, 2022.…
Mania The Abba Tribute will be making their way to Minneapolis on Saturday, October 21, 2023 at the State Theatre. From London’s West End to Las Vegas, Mania the Abba Tribute is the world’s number one touring ABBA tribute and…
Looking for an excuse to change out of those yoga pants, put on some make up, call a babysitter and head out with your girlfriends for the most epic girls’ night ever? Look no further. Cat & Nat are headed…
Writer and Humorist David Sedaris is confirmed for a return visit to the State Theatre at 8 p.m. on Friday, October 27, 2023. With sardonic wit and incisive social critiques, David Sedaris has become one of America’s pre-eminent humor writers.…
Derek Hough is an American professional Latin and ballroom dancer, choreographer, actor and singer. Since September 2007, Hough has become known for his work on the ABC dance-competition series, Dancing with the Stars, on which he has won a record six seasons. With a total of…
Ari Shaffir: The Wrong Side of History Tour presented by Outback Presents
Ari Shaffir is an American standup comedian. In addition to his numerous appearances on the Joe Rogan podcast, he is best known for his last special, Jew, which garnered over 4 million views in its first month and was written…
Born and raised in Orlando, FL- Nurse Blake is a registered nurse and the most popular nurse influencer on social media. He has been a nurse for over seven years and has worked in a number of nursing roles at…
King Bach will be making his way to the Pantages on Friday, November 3, 2023 Andrew Byron Bachelor also known as King Bach is a Canadian-born American Internet personality, comedian and actor who rose to fame on the now-defunct video…
Matteo Lane is a New York-based comedian whose stand-up special can be seen on Netflix’s “The Comedy Lineup.” He has performed stand up on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” “Late Night with Seth Meyers,” Comedy Central’s “Adam Devine’s House…
The grr-ific musical for little tigers and grown-ups alike is back! The hugely popular Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood LIVE!, based on the #1 PBS KIDS TV and Emmy Award- winning series that has delighted live audiences on stages across the country…
Loreena McKennitt will be making her way to the State Theatre on Wednesday, November 8, 2023. This Canadian soprano-voiced musician specializes in Celtic and Middle-Eastern new age music and recording for the past three decades. Her eclectic Celtic music has…
Trevor Noah is one of the most successful comedians in the world and was the host of the Emmy® Award-winning The Daily Show on Comedy Central for seven years. Under Trevor, The Daily Show with Trevor Noah broke free from…
Phone rings, door chimes, in comes company. Winner of 5 Tony Awards including Best Revival of a Musical, Company “strikes like a lightning bolt. It’s brilliantly conceived and funny as hell.” (Variety). Helmed by three-time Tony Award-winning director Marianne Elliott (War Horse,…
It’s going to be wild! Young fans and their families nationwide are in store for even more adventure on the creature trail when the world-famous Kratt Brothers hit the road with an all-new stage adventure! Wild Kratts® LIVE 2.0 –…
A.J. Croce performs Croce Plays Croce, a special night of music featuring a complete set of classics by his late father Jim Croce, some of his own tunes, and songs that influenced both him and his father. The performances promise…
The Fab Four Performs The Beatles’ “Rubber Soul” presented by Emporium Presents
The Fab Four is a California-based tribute band paying homage to The Beatles that was founded in 1997. They will be making their way back to Minneapolis at the Pantages Theatre on Saturday, November 18, 2023.
Nutcracker! Magical Christmas Ballet presented by Talmi Entertainment
The beloved family tradition is back: Nutcracker! Magical Christmas Ballet! Gather your loved ones for the warm-glow-nostalgia of America’s favorite Christmas celebration. Experience the extraordinary international cast and Ukrainian Principal Artists performing at the peak of classical European Ballet. Be…
Phoebe Robinson is a standup comedian, best-selling author, producer, actress and publisher. She is the author of the essay collections “You Can’t Touch My Hair,” “Everything’s Trash, But It’s Okay” and “Please Don’t Sit on My Bed in Your Outside…
Discover a whole new world at Disney’s Aladdin, the hit Broadway musical. From the producer of The Lion King comes the timeless story of Aladdin, a thrilling new production filled with unforgettable beauty, magic, comedy and breathtaking spectacle. It’s an…
Known as one of the most prolific comedians, Titus debuts his 10th special on the back of six Comedy Central specials, Billboard topping comedy albums and his own hit FOX sitcom. In this frank and thoughtful new show, Titus explores…
RESCHEDULED: Michael W. Smith Christmas presented by Balsam Hill
Michael W. Smith’s Christmas concert in Minneapolis at Orpheum Theatre scheduled for December 21 has been postponed to December 16, 2023 due to the forecasted blizzard conditions. This postponement is due to the extreme weather forecasted and our need to…
A new musical comedy about the things we do to stay together. Everyone’s favorite Scottish nanny is headed to Minneapolis in an internationally acclaimed new hit musical critics call “wonderful, heart-warming, and laugh-out-loud funny” (Manchester Evening News) and “a feel-good, family-friendly comedy…
Welcome to musical comedy heaven! Featuring one of the most iconic scores of all time by Jule Styne and Bob Merrill, an updated book from Harvey Fierstein based on the original classic by Isobel Lennart, tap choreography by Ayodele Casel,…
A mother. A daughter. 3 possible dads. And a trip down the aisle you’ll never forget! Set on a Greek island paradise where the sun always shines, a tale of love, friendship and identity is beautifully told through the timeless hits…
Murder and blackmail are on the menu when six mysterious guests assemble at Boddy Manor for a night they’ll never forget! Was it Mrs. Peacock in the study with the knife? Or was it Colonel Mustard in the library with…
Matt Rife has exploded as one of the fastest growing comedians through his viral content and remarkable engagement on TikTok, where he has amassed over 5 Million followers, and more than 260 million views globally. Rife brings forth his refreshingly…
Giraffes strut. Birds swoop. Gazelles leap. The entire Serengeti comes to life as never before. And as the music soars, Pride Rock slowly emerges from the mist. This is Disney’s The Lion King, making its triumphant return to the Orpheum…
The music. The moves. The icon. Now, the unparalleled artistry of the greatest entertainer of all time comes to Minneapolis as MJ, the multi Tony Award®-winning new musical centered around the making of the 1992 Dangerous World Tour, begins a…