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Bryant-Lake Bowl, locally nicknamed BLB, is a bowling alley, restaurant, bar, and 90-seat theatre in Uptown Minneapolis, Minnesota.Best known for its evening entertainment and Cheap Date Night specials (two meals, drinks, and a round of bowling for $28) BLB is also a reliable brunch stop.
It is one of four restored theaters on Hennepin Avenue, along with the State Theatre, [2] the Pantages Theatre, and the Shubert Theatre (now The Cowles Center). The building opened on October 16, 1921, originally named the Hennepin Theater, its first performers included the Marx Brothers with more than 70,000 guests attending the opening week run.
In 1987, 25% of reported crimes in downtown Minneapolis were committed on Block E, where the Shubert was located [4]. In an effort to combat the increasing crime, the Minneapolis City Council approved guidelines for a redevelopment project. However, the project brought The Shubert under threat of the wrecking ball.
The new performing arts center is a three-building complex that includes the renovated Shubert Theatre building (renamed the Goodale Theater) and a new glass-walled atrium connecting the two historic buildings and serving them both as a common lobby. The Cowles Center hosted a three-day Grand Opening Gala September 9–11, 2011.
The Old Log Theatre first opened in 1940 in Greenwood, in a dirt-floored log building now used as a scenery shop. [6] Throughout its existence the theater has focused mostly on screwball comedy, contemporary plays and British farces, though in its early years it operated as a summer stock company. The original building seated 270 people and ...
Ordway Center for the Performing Arts; Palace Theatre (St. Paul) Pangea World Theater; Pantages Theatre; Park Square Theatre; Pence Opera House in Minneapolis, 1867 - 1952; Penumbra Theatre Company; Punchinello Players; Ragamala Dance Company; Rarig Center at the University of Minnesota (four theaters) Really Spicy Opera; Red Eye Theater ...
The Minneapolis Community Development Agency purchased the LaSalle Plaza block, including the State, in 1989 as part of the LaSalle Plaza development. After nearly two years of renovation at a cost of $8.8 million, the State Theatre re-opened under its original name in November 1991 with the Minnesota Opera 's production of Carousel .
Mixed Blood's plays range from chamber theatre to political satires.The theatre presents over 500 performances annually in the Alan Page Auditorium of its historic firehouse theatre, as well as in schools, churches, community centers, juvenile detention centers, and workplaces. [2]