Straw Hat Players summer theatre opens its 61st season June 4

Two shows on MSUM’s Straw Hat Players lineup MSU Moorhead’s Straw Hat Players continues its summer tradition of entertaining the community with the opening show, Swing!, June 4-6 at 7:30 p.m. in the Roland Dille Center for the Arts Gaede Stage. Swing! shattered ethnic and cultural barriers, generating specialty styles such as jive, lindy hop, West Coast swing, and hip-hop […]

MSUM’s summer theater company Straw Hat Players is ready to celebrate its 60th anniversary in “Grand” fashion

The summer lineup opens May 30 with a musical revue of Rodgers and Hammerstein. By John LambMay 30, 2023 MOORHEAD — Minnesota State University Moorhead has officially ended its theater program but the show will go on for the school’s longtime summer stock theater, Straw Hat Players. The troupe opens its 60th season this week, running out three shows in three […]

Straw Hat Players – Away in the Basement (June 14-16)

MSUM’s Straw Hat Players is presenting “Away in the Basement- A Church Basement Ladies Musical”, that takes us back to 1959 and the day of the Sunday School Christmas Program. In the midst of holiday preparations and sprinklings of love in the air, the ladies in their witty, down-to-earth style are creating their own memories from Christmases past and present. This family friendly […]

Straw Hat Players – Guys on Ice (June 7-9)

MSUM’s Straw Hat Players is presenting “Guys on Ice”, a story that spends a day in the life of Marvin and Lloyd — fishing buddies and home-grown philosophers. With musical numbers like, “The Wishing Hole,” “Ode to a Snowmobile Suit,” “Fish is the Miracle Food” and “The One That Got Away,” this musical is sure to entertain. This family friendly […]