Previous Mainstage Performances

Puppet Lab 2019

01-07-2020

March 2019

Puppet Lab 2018

07-11-2018

March 2018

Make Believe Neighborhood

07-11-2018

February 2018

Action Sequence

09-06-2017

June 2017

Music Animated featuring Dreamland Faces

09-06-2017

February 2017

Music Animated: A Puppet Concert Series featuring Dosh

10-27-2016

October 2016

Queen

10-27-2016

SEPTEMBER 2016

Basement Creatures

03-11-2016

March 2016

The Story of Crow Boy

02-18-2016

February 2016

Puppet Cabaret

12-29-2015

Hosted by Daniel Polnau Music by The Controversial New “Skinny Pill” A cabaret of puppet shows by the Twin Cities puppet community, with popcorn, booze and live music.  Come see puppets…

Between the Worlds

12-11-2015

2015, 2013, 2002

PuppetLab: Basement Creatures, Dust

01-28-2015

PuppetLab 2015 – Week 2: Basement Creatures, Dust HOBT’s new artist incubator PuppetLab is back, and celebrating 5 years of radical, genre-expanding, boundary-pushing work. Join us in the Avalon Theater…

PuppetLab: Princess Bari, Cellula

01-28-2015

PuppetLab 2015 – Week 1: Princess Bari, Cellula HOBT’s new artist incubator PuppetLab is back, and celebrating 5 years of radical, genre-expanding, boundary-pushing work. Join us in the Avalon Theater…

La Natividad

12-11-2014

2016, 2014, 2012, 2008, 2007, 2006

Ada/Ava

09-15-2014

Ada/Ava Manual Cinema Saturday September 27th, 7:30pm Performance at In the Heart of the Beast Theatre – 1500 E. Lake St., Mpls     More information and tickets available at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/772355…

Skeletons in the Closet

09-15-2014

Skeletons in the Closet Gustavo and Julie Boada Saturday September 27th, 10am and 12noon Family friendly – part of the HOBT Saturday Shows for Kids Series Performance at In the…

The Mysterious Metamorphosis of Mr. Krank

09-15-2014

The Mysterious Metamorphosis of Mr. Krank Toybox Theatre and Cripps Puppets Friday September 26th, 5pm Performance at In the Heart of the Beast Theatre – 1500 E. Lake St., Mpls More…

Love is…

09-15-2014

Love is… Performed by Larry Hunt Thursday September 25th, 8pm Performance at In the Heart of the Beast Theatre – 1500 E. Lake St., Mpls More information and tickets available…

On-time Circus

09-14-2014

  On-time Circus Performed by Margo McCreary and Company Thursday, September 25th, 3:30pm Family friendly Performance on the Midtown Greenway – just east of Chicago Ave. More information at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/772291 Part…

Tracing Fault Lines

05-20-2014

Erupting volcanoes, agriculture gone rogue, and a river of humanity that winds around Neglect… all on stage? Mad Munchkin Productions’ exciting new work uses puppetry, mask, movement, and original music…

Puppets After Dark Cabaret

01-28-2014

Have you ever wondered nervously how to go about asking that pretty boy or girl to dinner and a movie? Does your stomach ulcer ping every time you think about…

Cartooon

01-16-2014

January 2014

Echo More Strongly, Moonstruck: An Improbable Romance, Odyssey: The Soles’ Journey Home, The Lie

01-03-2014

We’ll be hosting a food drive for PuppetLab this year. See below show descriptions for more details!  PuppetLab is a bold program at HOBT that supports emerging puppet artists in…

La Guadalupana/Our Lady of Guadalupe

12-07-2013

December 2013

7 Person Chair Pyramid High Wire Act

10-11-2013

October 2013

These Thousand Waves are Mighty Armor – DRACULA

10-01-2013

Halloween Lobby Spectacular! Created by Fortuna Puppet Theater October 25 and 26, 2013 An intimate shadow show, and a ghoulish delight, just in time for Halloween! Join us for this…

Strombolli’s Medicine Show

08-01-2013

Created by Daniel Polnau September 13-15, 20-22, and 27-29 at 8pm. Tickets: $10. Age: 17+ In the words of Strombolli, master of ceremonies, mixer of elixirs, swami of sideshows and…

I have filthy habits & Five Rules for Walking

03-31-2013

March 8-10, 2013 I have filthy habits Eben Kowler Two siblings and an explorer cross paths in a terrarium. Weather patterns and behavior trends emerge, as three performers follow their…

Oompah Cabaret

03-29-2013

March 30, 2013 · 9pm Come celebrate: Céline Dion’s Birthday Francisco Goya’s Birthday Vincent Van Gogh’s Birthday MC Hammer’s Birthday National Doctor’s Day (US) National Cleavage Day (South Africa) The day…

There’s Nothing to Tell

03-15-2013

A full length work by Annie Rollins for the shadow theatre mixing traditional Chinese and North American styles to present the story of a Grandfather shadow puppeteer in China’s dying…

Lepus Nacht & Cartooon

03-01-2013

Puppet Lab: March 1-3, 2013 Lepus Nacht, A Night in the Warren by Benjamin Brockman A glimpse into a postapocalyptic landscape, in which the Lepus play and investigate with unending curiosity…

Kid Enkidu

01-25-2013

Jan-Feb 2013

Shota and the Star Quilt

12-27-2012

Shota and the Star Quilt December 27-29, 2012 Performed by Julie Boada and Esther Ouray Weaving together traditional folktale values with modern concerns for the urban environment and green issues.

2012: The Musical

11-07-2012

November 7-18, 2012 In the Heart of the Beast partnered with New Native Theater and Bedlam Theater for this debut performance,a romp through the end of the world as we…

Hidebound

10-18-2012

October 2012

The Pollen Road & meet me in the heart caves

03-09-2012

PuppetLab: March 9-11, 2012 The Pollen Road Reed Ellis Aubin A talking plant detoxes and journeys to find roots and a vanishing language, while a farmer loses ground. Check out…

Melting & Ain’t Heard Tell

03-02-2012

PuppetLab: March 2-4, 2012 Melting Mary Parker and Marg Rozycki Evangeline and Angela grapple with how the world transforms. They examine questions of stress, sacrifice, relationship to the world at…

Monkey Mind Pirates

02-18-2012

by Z Puppets Rosenschnoz February 18-26, 2012 The world’s only puppet rock yoga opera for families in search of calm. The epic tale of a sea captain discovering the secrets…

Hard Headed Heart

02-11-2012

by Blair Thomas February 11-12, 2012 High art meets low when the words of early 20th Century poets are given voice in this cabaret of wooden puppets, rolling paper scrolls…

Strombolli’s Medicine Show

01-20-2012

January 2012

Mild Light: An Evening of Cantastoria

01-14-2012

January 2012

Winter Dreams

12-02-2011

December 2011

My Beloved Had Turned and Was Gone & An Elegant Threat

02-11-2011

February 2011

For the Love of Puppets Cabaret

02-11-2011

February 11, 2012 For the Love of Puppets, a cabaret of puppet shows by the Twin Cities puppet community, with food, drinks & live music!

Mortal City & Endurance

02-04-2011

February 2011

La Befana

12-03-2010

December 2010 & 2001

A Path Home

11-06-2009

November 2009

Beneath the Surface

03-22-2009

2009, 2008

Decorate the Well in Gratitude

07-26-2008

July 2008

Come to the Well

03-02-2007

March 2007

A Company of Angels

09-25-2006

2006, 2005, 2004

GOTAMA: A Journey to the Buddha

02-24-2006

February 2006

The Pink Dress

11-05-2005

November 2005

Lake Street Excavations

03-04-2005

March 2005

Wild Swans

12-05-2003

December 2003

From the Inside Out

03-07-2003

March 2003

Queen Nanny, Queen Nanny!

01-17-2003

January 2003

Seed: Awesome Vessel of Power

09-27-2002

September 2002

Befriended by the Enemy

03-21-2002

March 2002

The Nightingale

02-01-2002

February 2002

City Rhapsody

11-03-2000

November 2000

Gyre: Song for a Millennium

12-11-1999

December 1999

The Reaper’s Tale

10-11-1989

October 1989

Table, Table

10-11-1987

1987

A Life of HOH

07-11-1983

1983

Shoes of Infant Light

10-11-1981

1981

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