When You Trap A Tiger
Stages Theatre Company, Hopkins
Based on the book ‘When You Trap A Tiger’ by Tae Keller.
Script by Katie Hae Leo in collaboration with Theater Mu.
Dramaturgy & development by Anna Crace
What stories do you keep with you?
Would you make a deal with a magical tiger? This uplifting story brings Korean folklore to life as a girl goes on an adventure to unlock the power of stories and save her grandmother. Based on the #1 New York Times best-selling, Newbery Medal-winning novel, When You Trap a Tiger.
MARCH 14 - 30, 2025
Señorita Mariposa
Stages Theatre Company, Hopkins
Based on the book by Ben Gundersheimer
Written by Ben Gundersheimer & Mabelle Reynoso
Directed by Nora Montañez Patterson
Dramaturgy and development by Anna Crace
A bilingual adventure across America!
Take flight and discover just how big Señorita Mariposa’s mundo maravilloso is as we follow the monarch butterfly's journey from Canada to Mexico on this beautiful English and Spanish adventure across the continent. Each year the butterfly takes an epic adventure ‘over mountains capped with snow, to the deserts down below’ to settle in the forests of their ancestors, but it’s the people they meet on their way that make this journey so special. ¡A volar!
SEPTEMBER 19 - OCTOBER 6, 2024
Dragons Love Tacos: The Musical
Stages Theatre Company, Hopkins
Based on the book ‘Dragons Love Tacos’ by Adam Rubin and illustrated by Daniel Salmeiri
Script by Cristina Pippa and Music and Lyrics by Sharon Kenny.
Dramaturgy and development by Anna Crace.
Stages Theatre Company brings you a new musical adaptation of the wildly popular, laugh out loud funny, Dragons Love Tacos. Join us for the party of the year, because after all, the only thing Dragons love more than parties, or tacos, is TACO PARTIES!
January - February 2024
Raymie Nightingale
Stages Theatre Company, Hopkins
Adapted from the book of the same name by Kate DiCamillo
Script by Jeannine Coloumbe
Dramaturgy by Anna Crace
Growing friendship solves life’s unanswerable questions.
Florida, 1975. A trio of friends embark on a dizzying adventure fraught with humor, poignant revelations, and the Little Miss Florida Tire Competition to discover that compassion can overcome life’s biggest obstacles. Based on the first novel in Kate DiCamillo’s award-winning trilogy.
March 2023
Vietgone
The Guthrie, Minneapolis
by Qui Nguyen
Directed by Mina Morita
Dramaturgy by Anna Crace
An all-American love story about two very new Americans. It’s 1975. Saigon has fallen. He lost his wife. She lost her fiancé. But now in a new land, they just might find each other
September 2022
The Piano: A Midwest Haunting
Daleko Arts, New Prague
by Heather Meyer
Directed and Dramaturgy for a rehearsed reading by Anna Crace
Cesta New Play Festival DalekoArts, New Prague, MN May 23, 2022
A Christmas Carol
The Guthrie, Minneapolis
by CHARLES DICKENS
adapted by CRISPIN WHITTELL
directed by LAUREN KEATING
dramaturg ANNA CRACE
Wurtele Thrust Stage
A miserly and miserable man, Ebenezer Scrooge greets each Christmas with “Bah! Humbug!” until he is visited one Christmas Eve by the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Christmas Present and Christmas Future. Through a restless night, the spirits show him happy memories from his past, cruel realities from the present and a grim future should he continue his cantankerous ways. Charles Dickens’ timeless tale continues to be a perennial favorite and holiday tradition that invites audiences of all ages to celebrate the merriment of the season with their family and loved ones.
https://www.guthrietheater.org/shows-and-tickets/2019-2020-season/a-christmas-carol/
Eat, Slay Leave
The Phoenix Theater, Minneapolis
by HEATHER MEYER
Rehearsed reading Directed and Dramaturged by ANNA CRACE
A horror comedy centering women in their mid-to-late 30s. Three friends visit a cabin in Northern Minnesota for a self-care weekend. However, their self-reflection reveals unexpected surprises forcing them to face the darkest parts of themselves in order to survive.