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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 - 50 Years!

Since 1974, The Illusion Theater & School has been a cornerstone of creativity, courage, and connection. From groundbreaking original productions to empowering youth through arts education, we’ve spent five decades using the transformative power of theater to inspire change.

 
 

Bonnie Morris (Producing Director)

Michael Robins (Executive Producing Director)

 

Featured
T. Mychael Rambo & Friends
Jul 16
Jul 16, 2025
Free Admission, Live at Lyndale Gardens, Live Performance
T. Mychael Rambo & Friends
Jul 16, 2025
Free Admission, Live at Lyndale Gardens, Live Performance

T. Mychael Rambo returns to LIVE at Lyndale Gardens. T. Mychael is an award-winning actor, vocalist, arts educator, and community organizer. He is a beloved member of our Twin Cities arts community. T. Mychael has performed on every professional theater stage in the Twin Cities.

Jul 16, 2025
Free Admission, Live at Lyndale Gardens, Live Performance
Improv for a Summer Evening
Jul 23
Jul 23, 2025
Live at Lyndale Gardens, Live Performance, Free Admission
Improv for a Summer Evening
Jul 23, 2025
Live at Lyndale Gardens, Live Performance, Free Admission

A high-energy, fast-paced improv comedy show where everything is made up on the spot and no two performances are ever the same. Think Fast. Laugh Hard. Fast. Funny.

Fully Improvised. Your ideas ➡️ Our Comedy.

Jul 23, 2025
Live at Lyndale Gardens, Live Performance, Free Admission
Leslie Vincent & Her Band
Jul 30
Jul 30, 2025
Free Admission, Live at Lyndale Gardens, Live Music
Leslie Vincent & Her Band
Jul 30, 2025
Free Admission, Live at Lyndale Gardens, Live Music

Leslie Vincent returns to LIVE at Lyndale Gardens. Leslie is a prolific songwriter and jazz vocalist. Equally at home singing the Great American Songbook, musical theater, and contemporary rock and pop.

Jul 30, 2025
Free Admission, Live at Lyndale Gardens, Live Music
A Pickle by Deborah Yarchun starring Cathy Fuller
Aug 6
Aug 6, 2025
Free Admission, Live at Lyndale Gardens, Live Performance, Staged Reading
A Pickle by Deborah Yarchun starring Cathy Fuller
Aug 6, 2025
Free Admission, Live at Lyndale Gardens, Live Performance, Staged Reading

For the second year in a row, the Minnesota State Fair rejects Richfield’s own Doris Rubenstein’s traditional kosher dill pickles. Doris realizes there’s more than pickles fermenting, there’s hell to raise. A Pickle is based on a true story. Cathy Fuller is familiar to Twin Cities audiences from her frequent work on stage, television, and radio.

Aug 6, 2025
Free Admission, Live at Lyndale Gardens, Live Performance, Staged Reading
Yazmin and Beat Zero
Aug 13
Aug 13, 2025
Free Admission, Live at Lyndale Gardens, Live Music
Yazmin and Beat Zero
Aug 13, 2025
Free Admission, Live at Lyndale Gardens, Live Music

Yazmin, pianist-singer-songwriter, and her powerhouse Latin-jazz trio Beat Zero return to LIVE at Lyndale Gardens with a mix of poignant songwriting and infectious Latin American rhythms.

Aug 13, 2025
Free Admission, Live at Lyndale Gardens, Live Music
Kevin Kling with Simone Perrin and Dan Chouinard
Aug 20
Aug 20, 2025
Free Admission, Live at Lyndale Gardens, Live Music
Kevin Kling with Simone Perrin and Dan Chouinard
Aug 20, 2025
Free Admission, Live at Lyndale Gardens, Live Music

We’ve made it a tradition to invite Kevin Kling, his favorite chanteuse Simone Perrin and fellow storyteller and musician Dan Chouinard to Lyndale Gardens with stories and music to lighten our hearts and souls.

Aug 20, 2025
Free Admission, Live at Lyndale Gardens, Live Music
Malamanya
Aug 27
Aug 27, 2025
Live Music, Live at Lyndale Gardens, Free Admission
Malamanya
Aug 27, 2025
Live Music, Live at Lyndale Gardens, Free Admission

The return of our favorite Afro-Caribbean Band. Music for your Dancing Soul!!!

Aug 27, 2025
Live Music, Live at Lyndale Gardens, Free Admission
 

2024-25 50th Anniversary Season

 
 
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Minnesota State Arts Board and Legacy Amendment
Minnesota State Arts Board and Legacy Amendment
Best Buy is a sponsor of our 50th Anniversary Season
Best Buy is a sponsor of our 50th Anniversary Season

Illusion Theater, 3754 Pleasant Avenue South, Suite 321w
Minneapolis, MN 55409
Center for Performing Arts (Minneapolis)

Email: boxoffice@illusiontheater.org

Phone: 612-339-4944

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