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ILLUSION THEATER
  • Home
    • Welcome
  • On Stage
    • LIVE at Lyndale Gardens - 2025
    • 2024-25 Season
    • Events
    • Tickets
  • Education
    • Education Overview
    • KEEPIN' IT REAL
    • Peer Education - Project TRUST
    • ILLUSION Residence
    • Touch For the 21st Century
  • Support - Connect
    • Support
    • Connect
    • Our Funders
  • About
    • About ILLUSION
    • Staff and Board
    • 50th Anniversary
    • Location
    • Carlyle Brown Playwright-in-Residence
    • Awards
    • Newsletters
    • Media Releases

Illusion Theater Students

Support our work with 15,000 youth every year in 11 Twin Cities Schools and with the Native Peer Education Ikidowin Program 

For more information, please contact Tiffany Robins at trobins@illusiontheater.org or call 612-767-9254

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Illusion’s Annual Fundraiser to Support the Kids in our Community

 Join us for an enlightening discussion with our panel of smart, creative, and insightful students to learn what’s on their minds and what’s happening in their worlds.

Thursday, October 6th 8:00 am to 9:00 am

Attend on Zoom OR in person at Illusion’s new home:

Center for Performing Arts, 3754 Pleasant Avenue South

T. Mychael Rambo, beloved fixture of the Twin Cities theater community is our captivating and inspiring MC.

Special Remarks by Lt. Governor Peggy Flanagan

- Bonnie Morris, Michael Robins and the Illusion Theater Board of Directors 


Sponsored by:


T. Mychael Rambo

is an Emmy Award winning actor, vocalist, arts educator, and community organizer. T. Mychael Rambo has worked with Illusion from the first year he arrived in the Twin Cities, creating many memorable moments in Always and Forever, Miss Evers’ Boys, Angel Headed Hipster, Amazing Grace, and PRESENT - to name a few. T. Mychael has made an indelible mark here in the Twin Cities performing principle roles at such theaters as: the Guthrie, Ordway Theatre, Penumbra, Mixed Blood, Park Square Theatre, Ten Thousand Things, Children’s Theatre, Minnesota Opera, Theater Laate Da -- among others. Nationally and internationally his stage credits include Carnegie Hall and performances abroad in Africa, Europe, and South America. He has appeared in local and national television commercials, feature films (including: The Cure, Justice, Crossing the Bridge, Wooley Boys), HBO mini-series (Laurel Avenue, Equinox), and other television programming. T. Mychael had the great honor of singing the National Anthem for both President Barack Obama and President Jimmy Carter. 

Bonnie Morris &

Michael Robins

Illusion Theater Producing Directors have used the power of theater to catalyze personal and social change, illuminating the illusions, myths, and realities of our times. In 45+ years, Illusion has generated over 525 plays, developed thousands of artists, and created ground-breaking educational works. Plays developed at Illusion have been produced in theaters throughout the world. Illusion’s work has catalyzed conversations in living rooms, kitchens, coffee houses, and board rooms, and has led to transformations in policy, in organizations, in students, and in individuals. Illusion’s Education work has won numerous awards and has been experienced by millions of students in over 40 states and in 80% of Minnesota counties. 


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Minneapolis, MN 55409
Center for Performing Arts (Minneapolis)

Email: boxoffice@illusiontheater.org

Phone: 612-339-4944

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