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1420 Washington Ave. S. Minneapolis, MN 55454

612-340-1725

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BEST OPEN-MIC NIGHT
Award Winner 2005

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Balls

Every Sat.

Are you a night owl? Always on the lookout for something entertaining to do on the weekend that doesn't involve dance parties, the repetitive bar s...
Ifrita Helwa (Sweet Devil)

8:00 p.m. daily from June 21 until June 23
Ananya Dance Theatre: Moreechika: Season of Mirage

8:00 p.m. every Fri., Sat. from September 7 until September 8

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 »

'House on Mango Street' brings poetry of youth to stage

By Ed Huyck | Thu, April 19, 2012

Events in childhood tend to magnify in the mind over the years, as occurances that would be mundane take on extra significance to a young mind. In The House on Mango Street, a first bike ride through ... More »
The House on Mango Street

By Sheila Regan | Wed, April 18, 2012

Last January, Sandra Cisneros's The House on Mango Street, a contemporary classic novel about growing up as a young Mexican American girl in Chicago, was one of many books seized from classrooms in Tuscon, Arizona. It was part of the state's manda... More »
'Kingdom Undone' tackles a big story with solid success

By Ed Huyck | Mon, March 26, 2012

Jeremiah Gamble tackles both the historical and spiritual sides of Jesus' final days in the ambitious and largely successful Kingdom Undone, which delves deeply not only into the minds of the characte... More »
'Kingdom Undone' explores Jesus' last days

By Ed Huyck | Fri, March 23, 2012

As the calendar turns to spring and the Easter season, you can find any number of passion plays being performed at area churches. Kingdom Undone, a new work from Jeremiah and Vanessa Gamble of Theater... More »
The Dragons Are Singing Tonight

By Sheila Regan | Wed, February 08, 2012

It's the Year of the Dragon, so get ready for some scaly, fire-breathing fun at the Southern Theater. The Dragons are Singing Tonight is presented by TigerLion Arts, in collaboration with the Minnesota Boychoir, Puppet Farm Arts, and Circus Juvent... More »
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arspading | Minneapolis, MN | 1 Reviews

Event Review: Balls

| 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)

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Southern Theater

1420 Washington Ave. S. Minneapolis, MN 55454

612-340-1725

Description

Every Sat.

8:00 p.m. daily from June 21 until June 23

8:00 p.m. every Fri., Sat. from September 7 until September 8

2005 | BEST OPEN-MIC NIGHT

2004 | BEST OPEN MIC

2002 | BEST VENUE FOR DANCE

2000 | BEST OPEN-MIC NIGHT

By Ed Huyck | Thu, April 19, 2012

By Sheila Regan | Wed, April 18, 2012

By Ed Huyck | Mon, March 26, 2012

By Ed Huyck | Fri, March 23, 2012

By Sheila Regan | Wed, February 08, 2012

arspading | Minneapolis, MN | 1 Reviews