When my perfect daughter was seven she uncharacteristically did something wrong. It became a learning opportunity. We set up a lemonade stand in the parking lot of the Hiawatha Golf Course in south Minneapolis on a hot sultry day. She sold a refreshing beverage for a few hours and then we proceeded to St. Joseph’s […]
At the core of our next show, THE SONG OF SUMMER by Lauren Yee, is a question of authenticity of authorship of “the song of summer,” that song that is played relentlessly on the radio from May to Labor Day. As the old saying goes: there is no such thing as an original thought. Everyone […]
In 1987, a man named Curt Jones froze ice cream into pellets with liquid nitrogen, named them Dippin’ Dots, and eventually dubbed them “Ice Cream of the Future.” Decades later can it still be ice cream of the future or has the future come? Mixed Blood now enters its ninth year of Radical Hospitality. While […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: August 8, 2019 Media Contacts: The PR Team, pr@mixedblood.com Mixed Blood Announces Lauren Yee’s comedy THE SONG OF SUMMER as the opening offering of its 44th season, directed by Addie Gorlin, opening November 1 (Minneapolis/St. Paul) – With catchy tunes and outrageous comedy, Lauren Yee’s THE SONG OF SUMMER – an unrequited romance […]
To be in America, must it be a rite of passage to be directly impacted by gun violence? We can all recount the cascade of mass shootings since Columbine, if we can even remember all of them. But on September 22, 2008 the news stories of gun violence about which I read and heard and […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 30, 2019 Media Contacts: The PR Team, pr@mixedblood.com (Minneapolis/St. Paul) – Mixed Blood Theatre will premiere the new musical Interstate as the headliner of its 44th season. “Interstate is a glorious ‘pop-rock musical’ about inclusivity, queer and trans community, and the open road.” — Village Voice Interstate By Kit Yan and […]
The Minnesota theater community offers its audiences the finest on-stage work in the country. It continues to be a treasure bringing quality to the lives of many, though not yet all, Minnesotans. Today, there is an ache in this Minnesota theater community as its past meets its present, as its coffers remain un-full, as the […]