Straw Hat Players Opens Summer Season with Nostalgic Humor

Gooseberry Park Players continues collaboration with MSUM Minnesota State University Moorhead’s Straw Hat Players Summer Theatre opens its 53rd season with Church Basement Ladies. Inspired by Growing Up Lutheran, a book by Janet Letnes Martin and Suzann Nelson, Church Basement Ladies is a humorous “scrapbook of memories” of growing up Lutheran in the 1950’s Midwest. The musical runs May 31 […]

Get tickets to Cats – playing June 23-27

Cats ~ June 23-27 The final show of the season is the hit musical Cats. The show runs June 23 to 27 on the Hansen Theatre stage. Cats is one of the longest-running musicals ever. Composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber, it tells the story of a tribe of cats called the Jellicles. Cat’s introduced the song standard “Memory.”

Straw Hat Players’ production of “Funny Girl,” June 17-20

Minnesota State University Moorhead’s Straw Hat Players Summer Theatre opens its third show of the summer — “Funny Girl,” a PG-13-rated musical with hits like “Don’t Rain on My Parade,” “I’m the Greatest Star,” and “People” – on Tuesday, June 17. The show runs four consecutive nights (June 17-20) in Hansen Theatre in the Roland Dille Center for the Arts.

Straw Hat’s “Doubt” opens tonight

Local actress Carrie Wintersteen plays Sister Aloysius Beauvier in Doubt, a powerful play by John Patrick Shanley opening Tuesday, June 10 on the Gaede Stage in the Roland Dille Center for the Arts at MSUM. The play runs through Friday, June 13 and is the second production of The Straw Hat Players 51st season of summer theatre at MSUM. It […]

Straw Hat Players Enters 51st Season

Minnesota State University Moorhead’s Straw Hat Players Summer Theatre opens its 51th season with the musical Suds, a PG-13-rated revue with hits like “Respect” and “Chapel of Love.” The show runs from June 3 to 6 on the Gaede Stage. The season continues with the PG-13-rated drama Doubt, the winner of a 2005 Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award. The production […]