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Frank Theatre

3156 23rd Ave. S. Minneapolis MN 55407

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Mixture of experimental, new and traditional theater.








  • 2012 | Best Musical

    John Kander and Fred Ebb specialized in bouncy-sounding scores that hid dark hearts. Cabaret's heart is especially bleak, as anyone with even the most basic knowledge of 20th-century history knows where many of the characters in libertine Weimar Germany were going to be in just a few years. That mixture of sweet music and pitch-black mood made Cabaret perfect fodder for Frank Theatre, which transformed the Centennial Showboat into the Kit Kat Klub and put Bradley Greenwald front and center... More »

  • 2006 | BEST INDEPENDENT THEATER

    Though somewhat lost amid the 2005 Twin Cities Greek Revival (we can think of five Greek shows last year, and there were surely more), Wendy Knox's The Women of Troy, a dramatic splicing of Euripides's The Trojan Women and Hecuba, was nonetheless an example of the fevered, intelligent, and uncompromising theater that this itinerant company consistently provides. Plunging deep into historical bondage and injustice, Troy featured an excellent set as well as a Marian Anderson-inspired score by... More »

  • 2004 | BEST INDEPENDENT THEATER

    These are lean economic times for arts groups, and many theater companies have responded either with scaled-down productions (such as one- or two-person shows) and/or safe, box-office-minded fare: familiar scripts, remounts, crowd-pleasers of all stripes. And we understand this, and if it's a good crowd-pleaser, bring it on. But it's heartening to see 15-year-old Frank Theatre completely bucking the trends with large-scale and risky stuff that one can't imagine anyone else taking on. Last... More »

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