GUEST ARTIST SERIES

Sept. 18 – 28, 2025

Featuring new plays by Sunny Thao & Mayra Gurrola Calderon

THROUGH OUR EYES 2 is Exposed Brick Theatre’s new play festival that is the culmination of the 2024 – 25 Through Our Eyes playwriting cohort.

OPEN EYE MAINSTAGE

Oct. 9 – Nov. 2, 2025

Music by Steven Cheslik-DeMeyer & Alan Stevens Hewitt
Book by Tim Maner
Directed by Joel Sass

Revenge, betrayal, sex, murder! What really happened in the house of Borden? LIZZIE is the punk-rock reimagining of the gripping true-crime case of Lizzie Borden. Brought to life by a powerhouse cast and a searing live band!

OPEN EYE MAINSTAGE

November 13 – 15, 2025

Hosted by Liz Howls
Featuring works by Michael Grace & Lizz Windnagel, Shafrin Islam & Anna Dolde, Dominique Herskind, Talia Smigielski, Kris Moua, Mary Jo Nikolai, and Sarah Frechette

Join us under the full moon for an adult, rowdy puppet slam. Featuring performances by some of the most innovative Twin Cities puppetry artists!

OPEN EYE MAINSTAGE

Nov. 28 - Dec. 28, 2025

Created by Ricky Graham, Jeffery Roberson & Yvette Hargis
Original music by Jefferson Turner

Celebrate the season with a Christmas Carol turned holiday boilermaker – a raucous, drag-fueled extravaganza with outrageous costumes, sassy lyrics, and side-splitting performances guaranteed to get your spirits soaring!

GUEST ARTIST SERIES

December 7, 2025

Featuring Leslie Vincent & Emily Dussault

MERRY & DARK celebrates the darker side of the holiday season with a collection of songs performed by the Champagne Drops on Open Eye's intimate stage.

OPEN EYE MAINSTAGE

March 5 – 22, 2026

Written & composed by Greg Brosofske
Featuring Bradley Greenwald & Anna Hashizume

Beloved vocalists Bradley Greenwald and Anna Hashizume front a live band playing a dreamy jazz-infused score in playwright-composer Greg Brosofske’s lyrical portrait of John Berryman.

OPEN EYE MAINSTAGE

April 10 - 19, 2026

Led by Co-Artistic Directors Oanh Vu and Sofia Padilla
Featuring new work by PUPPET LAB artists

PUPPET LAB is a 2-week festival of radical, genre-expanding, boundary–pushing puppet work, the culmination of a 6-month development residency for emerging puppetry and mask artists.