Past Productions
October 2024
AfterLife
You’re dead. What happens next?
Discover your fate at this one-of-a-kind immersive theatrical experience. Explore a cavernous realm filled with captivating stories and intriguing souls. Uncover the mysterious truth behind two enigmatic doors.
Will you cross over or become a permanent resident of Limbo? Don't miss AfterLife: The Experience. Death is just the beginning.
Presented by Sparkle Theatricals in proud partnership with the Improv Dance Project and Wabasha Street Caves .
October 2023
Poe Is Me
An evening of treats, games, and tales. Featuring works by the master of mystery and macabre, Edgar Allan Poe, and authors of poetry and prose from our Poe is Me writing contest.
October 2022
The League
An immersive, interactive, experimental performance, audience members step into Holmes' shoes and team up with Dr. Watson to investigate recent strange events surrounding a local art gallery. Along the way, they uncover a layered mystery, complete with secret aliases, con artistry, an attempted heist…there’s even a large tree branch.
OCTOBER 2019
Feed Your Head
You've been hired by the Best Butter Company! Ready for employee orientation?
Feed Your Head, inspired by Alice in Wonderland's Mad Tea Party, introduced audiences to a slew of fantastical characters and charmed them with enchanting sleights of hand. Along the way, they savored the scents, sounds, and flavors of the Best Butter Company.
Feed Your Head was also produced as a 180-degree Virtual Reality film, in partnership with Uptop Films.
OCTOBER 2018
Heist: Steal Your Past
Unlock the surreal world that exists between the bright glare of reality and the soft glimmer of a daydream.
Heist was our 5th annual Halloween event. Entire families enjoyed this inventive mix of storytelling, illusions, juggling, hand shadows, and dance as they made their way through an interactive play about the secrets we keep and the stories we tell.
MAY 2018
The Room with Closets
Experience joyous flights of fantasy and stark political reality.
The Room with Closets was an original theatrical experience based on the award-winning book by Argentine author A. Pablo Iannone. Audiences journeyed through a life divided between Argentina and the United States to arrive at a deeper understanding of life, love, human nature, and belonging.
OCTOBER 2017
Enter Apartment 101 — after all, you've been invited!
Apartment 101 was more than your average magic show. Once they arrived at the secret location, guests were mesmerized by close-up sleight of hand performed using antique magical equipment as they wandered through captivating tales about Time.
My brain is the key that sets me free.
— HARRY HOUDINI —
OCTOBER 2016
Spirit Forward
Who will you meet at Margery Crandon's seance?
Spirit Forward was an evening of magic, mysterious stories, and spectacular culinary art inspired by the life of Harry Houdini, at historic Forepaugh's Mansion in St. Paul, on the 90th anniversary of his death.
JULY - AUGUST 2016
A Pie. A Duck. And A Shoe.
A grand exhibition of extraordinary amusements!
Featuring modern vaudevillian acts by illusionist and comedian David Harris; tap dancer Rick Ausland; legendary beatboxer Carnage the Executioner; City Pages "Best R&B Vocalist of 2016" Nick Jordan in collaboration with multi-instrumentalist Luke Darger; and shadow puppeteers Neal Beckman, Alejandra Iannone, and Joann Oudekerk.
MAY 2016
Five Fifths of the Titanic
Live the story of the Titanic like never before. It comes with giant hats!
Every year the Minnesota Fringe Festival selects a book, movie, or play and divides it into five parts. Each part is given to a different performance group to interpret as truthfully or abstractly as desired. Sparkle Theatricals took up the challenge and transformed the “Second Fifth" of James Cameron's Titanic into a totally tubular 90’s dance party.
JUNE - JULY 2015
Parent Observation Day
You dance, I dance, right? Parent Observation Day was a colorful depiction of the hilarious things children say and do in the magical realm of a dance class. Audiences cheered on a cast of nine kids-at-heart as they danced like everybody was watching.
