The 2026-27 theatre season begins with Come From Away running October 23, 24 and 29-31 in the Premanand Fine Arts Theatre.
The other production during the fall semester is Stupid F---ing Bird, which runs on December 4, 5 and 10-12.
Come From Away is based on the true story of when the isolated community of Gander, Newfoundland, played host to the world. When 38 planes carrying 7,000 passengers from around the globe were diverted to Gander’s airstrip on September 11, 2001, the residents of Gander welcomed these strangers into their homes and hearts. While the world witnessed the worst of humanity, the people of Gander showed the stranded passengers that kindness, comfort, and generosity still exist.
The first show will open on Friday, October 23 at 7:30 p.m. There will also be performances on Saturday, October 24 at 2 and 7:30 p.m. The final three performance dates will take place on Thursday, October 29 at 7:30 p.m., Friday, October 30 at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday, October 31 at 2 p.m. The ASL Interpreted Performance will be on October 30.
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.edu/theatre and the Normandale Theatre Department's Facebook page for more details.
During the spring semester, Normandale's Theatre Department will present The Mad Ones on February 25-27 and Macbeth on April 29-May 1.
The following are descriptions of the next three performances that will take place after Come From Away during the 2026-27 academic year:
Stupid F---ing Bird: In this irreverent, contemporary and very funny remix of Chekhov’s The Seagull, Aaron Posner stages a timeless battle between young and old, past and present, in search of the true meaning of it all. With original songs composed by James Sugg drawing the famously subtextual inner thoughts of Chekhov’s characters explicitly to the surface, Stupid F—-ing Bird considers how art, love, and revolution can fuel one's own pursuit of happiness.
The Mad Ones: 18-year-old Samantha Brown sits in a hand-me-down car with the keys clutched in her hand. Caught between a yearning for the unknown and feeling bound by expectation, she telescopes back to a time before her world had fallen apart. As she relives her senior year, we meet Sam’s well-intentioned helicopter mother Bev and her high school sweetheart of a boyfriend Adam, but it’s her painfully alive best friend Kelly that haunts her. Kelly was everything Sam is not – impetuous and daring. She pushed Sam to break rules and do the unexpected. When Kelly is killed in a car accident, Sam loses not only her best friend but also the part of herself that was learning to be brave. Now, Sam has to make a decision: Will she follow her mother’s dreams for her, or will she summon the courage to drive away from her friends and family into a future she can’t imagine?
Macbeth: Lust. Greed. Ruthless, blinding ambition. Dark magic. A desperate couple, hungry for success and willing to do anything to achieve it, including murder. While it could be the next Netflix true crime documentary - it is also the story at the center of one of William Shakespeare’s finest tragedies. Macbeth, written in 1606, resonates in our 21st century world with shocking relevancy. Moving at breakneck speed, we watch as a young soldier and his wife become consumed by the darkest parts of themselves, and how their devouring need for power drives them to the brink of insanity and beyond. Blood will be spilled. Lots of it.
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