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Before Shakespeare’s Bottom, there was...The Golden Ass.
nimbus invites you to experience transformation - the hard way. As Lucius learns, you hear a lot with long ass ears.
April 10, 2012: The Golden Ass weaves together a deliciously ribald collection of stories at the expense of the unfortunate Lucius, who dabbled in witchcraft and experienced transformation the hard way.
The Words Will Show Us the Way
nimbus presents Babel, a new play written and directed by Josh Cragun, running March 3-25, 2012.
February 14, 2012: An infinite library, tended by a reclusive order of librarians. Since the biblical tower fell, they have labored to rediscover lost secrets. One man searches for the key to the greatest secret of all. Written and Directed by Josh Cragun, Babel imagines the story of the brilliant architect of the biblical tower that would reach to heaven.
What is it in us that lies, murders, steals?
nimbus presents Georg Buchner’s Woyzeck
November 5, 2011: nimbus continues its first full season in its new permanent home with a searing tale of paranoia, jealousy, and institutionalization in Georg Buchner’s play Woyzeck, opening December 2, 2011, and running through December 17, 2011.
The Raptus Will Set you Free
Nimbus Opens its First Full Season in New Theater With Dario Fo Masterpiece
September 18, 2011: When an anarchist accused of bombing a bank "accidentally" falls out a fourth floor window, the police are quick to cover their tracks. But the arrival of a maniac in disguise and a shrewd reporter soon have the authorities scrambling to retract their amendments and amend their retractions.
History Was Lived So That a Glorious Page Might Be Written, Then Read.
Nimbus Inaugurates New Theater with Genet's The Balcony
February 19, 2011: nimbus will christen their new permanent home on Central Avenue with a production of Jean Genet's The Balcony, considered one of the colorful and controversial French dramatist's masterworks. The production opens February 11th, and performs through March 6th, 2011. Winner of an Obie Award in 1960, this provocative and complex piece will be directed by nimbus Artistic Director Josh Cragun.
We have the ocean all the other days, let the dead have this one.
nimbus is proud to present the Twin Cities premiere of Emerald and the Love Song of the Dead Fishermen, directed by nimbus co-Artistic Director Liz Neerland.
April 27, 2010: Emerald's father, a fisherman, was lost at sea the night she was born. Now, on the eve of her 25th birthday, Emerald learns of the Day of the Dead Fishermen - a time when the dead awake from their slumber for one day only. Emerald is determined to travel to the mysterious island where the dead walk, even though to do so means certain death. Joined by barista-in-crime Jason and an unlikely boat captain, they face many foes - on land and at sea - in their quest to reunite Emerald with her father.
The fault lies in the fault lines.
nimbus is proud to present the regional premiere of Naomi Iizuka’s Strike-Slip directed by co-Artistic Director Josh Cragun.
February 8, 2010: In the sprawling mosaic of Los Angeles there are as many fissures, connections, and cracks above ground as there are below. For three diverse families, a tragic shooting exposes these once-dormant fault-lines and forces them to confront the way they perceive themselves, their community and their dreams. In a city where anything is possible but nothing is durable, how will uncertainty shape the way they live their lives?
They’re baaaaack…
nimbus presents Nights of the Living Fringe
October 7, 2009: Back from the depths of the Minnesota Fringe Festival, five of this year\'s hottest shows have returned to the Minneapolis Theatre Garage. These audience favorite, encore-winning, critically lauded shows are back for a few nights only. Presented by nimbus and Rockstar Storytellers, together with a special nimbus production of The Zoo Story, Nights of the Living Fringe will only be here from October 15 - November 1.
Heaven doesn’t happen all at once.
nimbus presents The Trial of Mother Teresa, a new play written by Dani Givens and directed by Liz Neerland
May 6, 2009: A cage-match for moralists, a Lincoln-Douglas debate for the faithful, a three-ring circus for doubters-all are contained within The Trial of Mother Teresa, written by nimbus alumna Dani Givens and directed by nimbus co-Artistic Director Liz Neerland. Outside of space and time, Mother Teresa and Joan of Arc meet for the first time. United by chance in a purgatorial limbo, the two women bond over their lives as religious icons. As they share their thoughts on faith and sainthood, the pair is judged by a panel of cardinals bent on either inquisition or canonization, whichever comes first. This incisive commentary explores faith, doubt, and politics while challenging our deepest beliefs about the nature of privacy in the age of publicity.
A first in the annals of lunacy
nimbus presents Pirandello’s <cite>Henry IV</cite>, in the regional premiere of a new adaptation by Tom Stoppard.
February 9, 2009: Sanity and madness vie for control in Pirandello's <cite>Henry IV</cite>, as reimagined by Tom Stoppard. The title character isn't the eleventh-century German monarch, however - he's an Italian aristocrat who thinks he's the ruler after receiving a head injury. Hidden away by relatives for twenty years, \Henry\" has been allowed to lead the idyllic existence of a king. But when his family comes to cure his madness, the resulting chaos will shatter his haven and have everyone questioning who is truly sane. Directed by nimbus co-Artistic Director Josh Cragun."