Dawn Krosnowski as Aunt Polly and Bethany Simmons as Pollyanna

Bethany Simmons as Pollyanna

(L-R) Cody Stewart, Leah Isaacson, Jason Kruger, Kelvin Hatle, and Dawn Krosnowski as the Ladies’ Aid Society.

POLLYANNA

March 28/29/30, April 4/5/6, April 11/12/13
Thursday/Friday/Saturday nights at 7
Bryant-Lake Bowl Theater

We know: It isn’t the most…obvious idea for a show. For an explanation, go here.

For reservations and tickets, go here.

Hope to see you at the show!

The highly original (in her scariness) Water Ghost menaces the highly unoriginal (in his being scared) Master of Harrowby Hall…

From God Rest Ye Scary Gentlemen, opening Dec. 15 at the Bryant-Lake Bowl.

DESIGNERS
Angela Fox                                          music & choreography
John Adler                                           scenery
Lisa Conley                                         costumes
Ian Knodel                                           lights
Phil Henry                                           props
Dawn Krosnowski                              makeup

OTHERS
KT Thompson                                     live accompaniment
Tess Kean                                           stage manager
Pam Germ                                          dresser
Steve Schroer                                     adaptation & direction

Microscopic organisms! Live onstage!

Although Fitz-James O’Brien’s “The Diamond Lens” is not well known to the general reading public, scholars and connoisseurs regard it as a classic of 19^th-century fantasy/science fiction. James Gunn, editor of The Road to Science Fiction: From Gilgamesh to Wells, calls it “the first known story in which another world is perceived through a microscope” and suggests that it may be the first “modern” science-fiction story.

Comedy! Music! Strange ideas!

Hardcover Theater’s adaptation takes the themes and incidents of the story and embellishes upon them, adding characters and inventing dialogue, digging deeper and branching out in new directions. The show is often funny, but it’s also serious in the sense that it’ll give you food for thought. There’s music throughout, and dance and other movement – this is a high-energy experience!

Come see The Diamond Lens!

The Diamond Lens is family-friendly, though things do get a little dark and weird toward the end. To Mars with Tesla, the other show on the bill, is slightly racier; if it were a movie, it would probably be rated a mild PG. Visit the show page for more information, or call Steve Schroer at 612.823.0631.

Hardcover is excited to announce that we are teaming up with our longtime collaborators Joshua Scrimshaw and Adrienne English to produce two new shows based on fantasy/science fiction tales from the Victorian era.

Opening at the end of April, Steampunk Delusions will include original productions of Hardcover’s “The Diamond Lens” (based on the 1858 story by Fitz-James O’Brien) and English Scrimshaw Theatrical Novelties’ “To Mars with Tesla” (based on the first part of the title of the 1901 novel by J. Weldon Cobb).

The show runs from April 27 through May 12, 2012, at Open Eye Figure Theater.

Visit the show page for more information…