Wayward Theatre Company

MIXTAPE: We are back at it tomorrow! We have shows on Friday and Saturday, doors open at 6 and show is at 7 - don’t snooze on tickets. We sold out last Friday so snag em while you can!

True stories, live music, incredible painting on stage - come create community.

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What a night! We were surrounded by an incredible audience full of friends, family, brave strangers who all came together for community, building it one story and song at a time.

Were you there?? Thank you for coming!

So proud of these brave storytellers, adventurous audiences, rockstar musicians and incredible art by Mr Gorecki.

We are back at it tonight! Doors open at 6, show begins at 7! Tickets- www.waywardtheatre.org

OPENING TOMORROW!!!

We absolutely cannot wait to bring this lil show to the starting tomorrow!

Tickets are selling SWIFTLY so better snag em while you can! Come early and hang for some food and drinks, doors open an hour before the show.

See ya SOON! waywardtheatre.org

Live music ROCKS! And Micah helps bring in that sweet sound!

Micah Erickson is excited to be joining the Wayward house band for another Mixtape! He plays bass guitar and tries to squeeze vocal harmonies into every song. Vocal harmonies are like The Princess Bride - they never get old!

Micah, if we all traveled back in time and peeked into your VCR, what would we find there? “My favorite/most watched VHS was The Princess Bride.” A classic!

Come check out his incredible bass skills and snap up those tickets today! waywardtheatre.org

Did we mention there is an artist ON STAGE live painting during the entire show?? Cuz, yeah baby, it’s true!

Chris Gorecki is a classically trained painter, illustrator and certified comic book geek, based out of St. Paul. You can find his art connected to a number of theater shows, art shows and Pop-ups through out the Twin Cites Including collaborating with Wayward Theater and Mix Tape since the very beginning. He plays with a multitude of materials and mediums, But his first love is the deep rich color of oil paints. Instead of words, he create his stories through the broad strokes and textures on the canvas right before your very eyes.

If he was to take a trip back in the Wayward time machine. You would if a warn out copy of Big Trouble in Little China stuck in his VCR. Where you can always hear my good Friend Jack Burtton saying “it’s all in the reflexes baby, all in the reflexes!”

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Storyteller announcement Tuesday!! 📣 We are DELIGHTED to welcome Amy back to the Mixtape stage! We love her, we missed her and we are so lucky to have her incredible talents back on this here stage!

Actor, writer and storyteller Amy Salloway is very excited to get to be a part of Mixtape again! Amy is the creator of four autobiographical solo plays that have toured across the US and Canada, including “So Kiss Me Already, Herschel Gertz!” and “Circumference.” She’s contributed true personal stories to MPR and CBC radio, and has both told and coached stories for the hit podcast “Risk!” Amy teaches all kinds of narrative arts classes through Minneapolis Community Ed, and is the midwest instructor for The Story Studio. You can see what she’s up to at www.facebook.com/awkwardmomentonstage.

Amy still owns a VCR and VHS tapes (they’re sitting right on top of her butter churn, next to the cast-iron stove), and is pretty sure the last VHS movie she watched was 1981’s “Fame.”

Looking for tickets? Grab em here! waywardtheatre.org

Would it even BE a Mixtape without Kymani? We hope we never find out!

Kymani Kahlil has been gracing our Mixtape stage for the past several years and we are so incredibly lucky to listen to her stories, soak in her wisdom and laugh with her incredible humor.

Kymani Kahlil (She/They/Viewer’sChoice) is a Twin-Cities based generative theater & multidisciplinary artist. Her work explores personal experience, social justice, identity and belonging, and other uncommon narratives through storytelling, movement and song. This is Kymani’s 5th Mixtape with Wayward Theater.

If we could travel back in time, what VHS would be in your VCR right now? “The Last Dragon or Never Too Young to Die.”

Snap em those seat! waywardtheatre.org

If you haven’t been to a Mixtape before, it is a storytelling show AND a live music event!

We are DELIGHTED to have Abigail grace the stage for Mixtape! We were lucky enough to have her incredible talents as an actress and singer for Christmas Carol and she left nary a dry eye in the audience with her haunting rendition of Auld Lang Syne.

She has now taken the helm as lead singer in our house band, Caryl and the Churchills and we can’t wait to hear her once again!

Abigail Walker is a Minneapolis based musician, singer, and actor. She has 3 cats, a love of karaoke, and a shopping addiction.

If she could go back in time, she would have the “Barbie as The Princess and The Pauper” VHS in her VCR.

Snap up your seats to hear this incredible person on stage March 1st, 2nd, 8th and 9th!

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It’s that time of the week again. Monday Funday!

We are so excited to welcome Heather Meyer to the fam and announce Heather as our next storyteller!❤️

Heather Meyer is a playwright and performer in Minneapolis. She has three plays going up in april of this year: The Five Brendas of Murray County (Witching Hour Theatre NYC), The Hired Man (Cincinnati Lab Theatre) and Eat, Slay, Leave at Illinois State University. She is an alum of the Brave New Workshop and improvises at The Theater of Public Policy and Let Me Say This About That which is the winner of the 2023 Spirit of the Fringe Award at Tucson Fringe. She has an MFA in playwriting from Spalding University and a MA in Sustainable Design from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. She was a resident artist in the Horse and Art Research Program in Hungary last summer.

Hey Heather, if we could travel back in time, what VHS would be in your VCR right now? “CONAIR. It’s my favorite movie. Of all the movies made and will ever be made.”

Snag your seats and make sure Heather feels the love! Come see Mixtape March 1st, 2nd, 8th and 9th at

Tickets here - www.waywardtheatre.org

The Venue!

Come take a peek at this icon of the Twin Cities like you’ve never seen it before.

Bryant Lake Bowl & Theater

We open the theatre one hour before our performance so you can come on in, get settled, peruse the incredible menu and beer list before we travel together through the true stories and live music for Mixtape: Be Kind, Please Rewind.

You are also able to order throughout the show as there is a wait staff IN THE THEATRE! C’mon now, does it get better than that??

Snag your tickets here! www.waywardtheatre.org

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Monday is always a bit of a slog. So let this brighten your blues - storyteller number 2! Matt has been with us since our second (?) Mixtape and he’s a key member of our little community.

Matt Anderson is a writer and filmmaker best known for creating the comedy web series “Theater People”. He lives with his wife, son, and hound dog in a state of perpetual nostalgia for the 1990s, where the VHS of BACK TO THE FUTURE is always in the VCR and it says “To Be Continued…” at the end!

Tickets on sale SOON! Come join Matt and the fam for Mixtape on March 1st, 2nd, 8th and 9th at the

Announcing our first storyteller and welcoming her to the Mixtape fam - Emily Gold!

Emily Gold is a mother of four who lives in Minneapolis. She is a poet and pediatric hospice advocate. She enjoys hanging with her kids and three dogs, hiking or watching scary movies.

If she could go back in time a VHS copy of The Wedding Singer would be in her VCR.

Come hear her true tales on March 1st, 2nd, 8th and 9th!

A CALL FOR STORYTELLERS!

We are looking to fill two spots in our popular storytelling series, Mixtape! We love to expand our pool of tellers and if you have an idea, send it in!

This is a PAID spot and you also have built in storytelling support and guidance if you choose. We always have one rehearsal with the band and the tellers and 4 performances. Added support if you choose. Stories should be 10 minutes or less in length and we pay $50/show.

The theme is Rewind and stories can be about any riff on the idea of a do-over.

Send a short video describing (or telling) your story to [email protected]! DM with any questions and we hope to hear from you!

UPDATES AND ANNOUNCEMENTS!

Your outpouring of interest and support for the work we do has left us overwhelmed and so so happy. We have heard from so many audience members and artists alike in the last few months and it means the world to us.

We want to share with you what we are up to and what we have coming up.

- We are choosing to spend this holiday season with our kids and our incredibly supportive spouses. They were so understanding last year while we were BUSY bringing the magic to the JJ HIll, we are excited to spend time with them this season.

- We will be returning in 2024 with Christmas Carol - A Ghost Story. We could not have anticipated the love for this piece, so if all goes well, we are honored to bring it back for next holiday season.

- Sarah is working on a brand new adaptation of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow which we will be bringing to a NEW SITE for the 2025 season! We are going to keep the new site announcement under our headless hat for now but know that it is haunting, heavenly and historic.

- If you want to support Wayward RIGHT NOW, grab a mug! We have mugs for sale and would love to have coffee with you every morning. We promise not to talk until you’ve had your caffeine. www.waywardtheatre.org/shop

- We have more Mixtapes and even a show or two up our sleeve in addition to these massive projects so stay tuned.

Big love, fam. Talk soon.

- Sarah, Mike and Tim

Hey fam! It has been a minute…

Even though we have been quiet, we have been busy touring new, incredible sites, planning new projects and fine tuning work from Christmas’ past 😉

We have some very exciting new work in the mill and in 2024, we will be bringing back a new favorite from the fog.

This pic is from an incredible site we recently visited that we have some BIG plans for. Any guesses?

We look forward to seeing you at our storytelling show, Mixtape, this season and look for our announcements for 2024.

Big love!

LAST CHANCE FAM! Tonight we bring down the curtain on our nostalgic, summery, existential crisis! Come see the FULL LINE UP of SIX amazing storytellers, the best house band a girl could as for and the incredible artistic stylings of Carly the painter.

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We are back at it tonight with storytelling, live music and some incredible painting on stage by Carly Swenson!

Doors open at 6:00, show starts at 7:00! Come early and enjoy a full food and bev menu right in your dang seat!

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We had such a wonderful first weekend of storytelling, music and amazing painting!

We are excited to get back to it on Friday with the addition of Carly Swenson onstage painting up a storm as well as the return of Matt Anderson with his special dose of storytelling.

Tickets are flying so snag em before they are gone!

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