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1420 Washington Ave. S. Minneapolis, MN 55454

612-340-1725

http://www.southerntheater.org

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BEST OPEN-MIC NIGHT
Award Winner 2005

1420 Washington Ave. S. Minneapolis MN 55454

Balls

Every Sat.

Balls open mic cabaret has been a late-night staple of the Minneapolis scene for over 20 years now. The midnight event, hosted by creator Leslie Ba...
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Festish fashions runway show followed by a late-night dance party. Event kicks off the leather community's annual Pride celebration.

Misterman: Sex, lies, and audiotape

By Ed Huyck | Thu, April 04, 2013

The latest Frank Theatre show involves a man alone onstage, accompanied only by audiotapes he has carefully constructed over the lonely years of his life.It may sound like a certain Samuel Beckett one... More »
$\'I Am Anne Frank\' returns to the Twin Cities$

'I Am Anne Frank' returns to the Twin Cities

By Ed Huyck | Tue, January 08, 2013

Nearly seven years after it debuted here (earning an Ivey for the production), Nautilus Music-Theater's I Am Anne Frank comes back to the Twin Cities this week for a brief run. The return comes from b... More »
$\'The Santaland Diaries\': Still funny$

'The Santaland Diaries': Still funny

By Ed Huyck | Mon, December 10, 2012

Frank Theatre's The Santaland Diaries opens without any real fanfare. The lights dim a bit and actor Joe Leary walks onstage dressed in street clothes. It's the transformation that takes place in the ... More »
$Frank gets back into holiday spirit with \'Santaland Diaries\'$

Frank gets back into holiday spirit with 'Santaland Diaries'

By Ed Huyck | Thu, December 06, 2012

Over the past few years, Wendy Knox has become quite familiar with David Sedaris's The Santaland Diaries. She has directed the stage adaptation in three cities, at five different venues, and with four... More »
$It\'s fright time at the Twin Cities Horror Festival$

It's fright time at the Twin Cities Horror Festival

By Ed Huyck | Thu, October 25, 2012

There's a new place to get your spook on for Halloween, one that offers seven varieties of chills in one easy -- if a bit scary -- location.The Twin Cities Horror Festival features seven pieces presen... More »
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arspading | Minneapolis, MN | 1 Reviews

Event Review: Balls

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| Tue, November 22, 2011

Balls is a Minneapolis-must-see for any lover of theater, vaudeville, or just simple spontaneity. Leslie Ball is a local treasure + her cabaret provides an incredibly positive + hilarious environment for artists and audiences of all kinds. In the several years I've gone, I've seen glow-in-the-dark jugglers doing routines to Weezer, I've seen couples dance while peeling root vegetables all over the stage, I've even seen Maria Bamfam and Tay Zonday! They even let me read poetry in my underwear ;-) As was noted, Balls is an uneven blend of pros+amateurs...but that's the way it should be. Never predictable and never boring. Even if there wasn't a good performance in the lot it would be worth going just to hear Ochen DJ + watch Leslie dance. P.S. -- it's been going for over 20 years! (not just 18)

2005 | BEST OPEN-MIC NIGHT

The Saturday night after the presidential election, we were in need of a soul-balm. We needed to be with people. Not even people we knew or people just like us, just people. So we had a cookie and a cup of coffee and went to the Southern at midnight and saw a couple of guys do a scary-spare version of U2's "Sunday Bloody Sunday"; a state representative read a timely poem about baseball (!); a local newspaper writer do a naked-voiced version of a Leonard Cohen song; and a first-timer do a... More »
2004 | BEST OPEN MIC

One of the best things about Balls is that it takes place at midnight every Saturday on a real stage in a real theater, though the dark recesses of the stage do bear a swampy likeness to a missing molar. As you enter the playhouse, someone will ask you if you're going to perform, and there's almost always pressure to get onstage even if you don't have material. This is just how things work at the cabaret, and Leslie Ball--the show's founder and jovial emcee--has been making sure of that for... More »
2002 | BEST VENUE FOR DANCE

Oh, if those walls could talk! For more than 90 years the Southern Theater has anchored the Seven Corners intersection on the West Bank, evolving from a Swedish-themed vaudeville venue into a porno-movie playhouse, a heavy-equipment garage, the swanky Gaslight Restaurant, a Guthrie Theater outpost, and finally, in 1981, the headquarters for the Twin Cities dance scene. Unlike your typical, minimalist black-box theater, the Southern has carefully cultivated its bohemian sensibility to suit... More »
2000 | BEST OPEN-MIC NIGHT

After another year of bringing the best in experimental dance, music, theater, and what-have-you to the Southern Theater in Minneapolis, this perennial favorite again wins the golden mic award. Hosted by charming chanteuse and ubiquitous local-arts activist Leslie Ball, Balls gives five to seven minutes of stage time to anyone with something to say, play, express, show, or prove. Acts over the past nine years have ranged from 13-year-old standup comics and semi-nude pyrotechnics experts to... More »

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1420 Washington Ave. S. Minneapolis, MN 55454

612-340-1725

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Balls

Every Sat.

Adventures in Fetish/FUNdRaver! 2

7:00 p.m. - 2:00 a.m. June 21

Misterman: Sex, lies, and audiotape

By Ed Huyck | Thu, April 04, 2013

'I Am Anne Frank' returns to the Twin Cities

By Ed Huyck | Tue, January 08, 2013

'The Santaland Diaries': Still funny

By Ed Huyck | Mon, December 10, 2012

Frank gets back into holiday spirit with 'Santaland Diaries'

By Ed Huyck | Thu, December 06, 2012

It's fright time at the Twin Cities Horror Festival

By Ed Huyck | Thu, October 25, 2012

arspading | Minneapolis, MN | 1 Reviews

2005 | BEST OPEN-MIC NIGHT

2004 | BEST OPEN MIC

2002 | BEST VENUE FOR DANCE

2000 | BEST OPEN-MIC NIGHT

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