Director Benjamin McGovern and actors Sara Marsh and John Catron rehearse The Hothouse by Harold Pinter | Photo: Heidi Bohnenkamp
Dark & Stormy Productions seeks to enrich the community by providing artistically excellent, relevant, and thought-provoking productions that engage and inspire both the audience and the artists.
We have three primary goals:
Director Benjamin McGovern and actors Sally Wingert and Robert Dorfman rehearse the United States premiere of And So It Goes by George F. Walker | Photo: Melissa Hesse
1) Fostering new theatergoers.
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (2023) marked Dark & Stormy’s first partnership with the University of Minnesota’s B.A. program through the Department of Theater and Dance, highlighting the next step in our initiative to usher in the next generation of artists and audience members.
Shayla Courteau (Sandy) and Jennifer Donovan (Jenny) in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (2023) | Photo: Bryce Johnson.
2) Sustaining current audiences by offering them intimate, vital, timely productions.
From L: Darius Dotch (Derek/Erik), Paul LaNave (Bo), and Sara Marsh (Helene) in Jacuzzi by The Debate Society (2021) | Photo: Bryce Johnson
From L: Mark Benninghofen (Gibbs), Robert Dorfman (Roote), and Bill McCallum (Lush) in The Hothouse (2014) | Photo: Heidi Bohnenkamp
From L: Sara Marsh (Annette), Peter Christian Hansen (Alan), Luverne Seifert (Michael), and Mo Perry (Veronica) in God of Carnage (2022) | Photo: Bryce Johnson
