The 2025-26 theatre season begins with Ken Ludwig’s Sherwood: The Adventures of Robin Hood running from October 9-11 in the Premanand Fine Arts Theatre.
The other production during the fall semester is A 1940s Radio Christmas Carol, which runs from December 4-6.
Ken Ludwig’s Sherwood: The Adventures of Robin Hood will open on Thursday, October 9 at 7:30 p.m. There will also be performances on Friday, October 10 at 7:30 p.m. and on Saturday, October 14 at 2 and 7:30 p.m. The ASL Interpreted Performance will be on October 10.
Adult admission is $10, while senior/staff/student tickets will be $5. Tickets can be reserved online. Season tickets are available for a discount. Please call 952-358-8884 to make reservations or email at boxoffice@normandale.edu. Stay tuned to Normandale's website and the Normandale Theatre Department's Facebook page for more details.
During the spring semester, Normandale's Theatre Department will present A Murder is Announced in repertory with The Play that Goes Wrong. The dates for those shows are April 2-4 & 9-11.
The following are descriptions of the four performances that will take place during the 2025-26 academic year:
Ken Ludwig’s Sherwood: The Adventures of Robin Hood: Packed with thrills, romance, laughter, and immortal characters like Little John, Friar Tuck, and Maid Marian, Sherwood: The Adventures of Robin Hood tells the enduring story of a hero of the people who takes on the ruthless powers that be. So get ready to duck a quarterstaff or two – you won’t want to miss a moment of the swashbuckling fun!
A 1940s Radio Christmas Carol: It’s Christmas Eve, 1943, and the Feddington Players are broadcasting from a hole-in-the-wall studio in Newark, NJ, with their “take” on A Christmas Carol. Between noisy plumbing, missed cues, blackouts, and the over-the-top theatrics of veteran actor William St. Claire, the show spirals into mayhem. As St. Claire unravels on-air, blurring his own life with Dickens’ tale, the company scrambles to save the broadcast by improvising a film noir ending complete with a hardboiled detective, a femme fatale, and an absurd rescue of Tiny Tim (and the Lindbergh baby).
A Murder is Announced: An announcement in the local paper states the time and place when a murder is to occur in Miss Blacklock's Victorian house. The victim is not one of the house's several occupants, but an unexpected and unknown visitor. What follows is a classic Christie puzzle of mixed motives, concealed identities, a second death and a determined inspector grimly following the case's twists and turns. Fortunately, Miss Marple is on hand to provide the solution in a dramatic final confrontation.
The Play that Goes Wrong: Welcome to opening night of the Cornley University Drama Society’s newest production, The Murder at Haversham Manor, where things are quickly going from bad to utterly disastrous. This 1920s whodunit has everything you never wanted in a show – an unconscious leading lady, a corpse that can’t play dead, and actors who trip over everything (including their lines). Nevertheless, the accident-prone thespians battle against all odds to make it through to their final curtain call, with hilarious consequences!
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