#TheaterThursday
2020-05-28, 2020-06-11, 2020-06-18, 2020-06-25, 2020-07-02 | Online
Virtually visit Landmark Center and enjoy a previously recorded History Play each Thursday. For the next several weeks, a different play from Landmark Center’s annual fall production will be posted each Thursday. Each play is full of history, drama, and there’s always a few laughs. The plays feature prominent members of the Twin Cities legal community. They are produced by Landmark Center and recorded by SPNN.

#TheaterThursday
2020-06-04 | Landmark Center, 75 5th St W, Saint Paul, MN, 55102, United States

Gangster Ghost Tales - SOLD OUT
2020-10-30 | Musser Cortile – Landmark Center, 75 5th St. W., Saint Paul, MN, 55102, United States
The popular “Gangster Ghost Tour” sells out every year. This year, things must change to keep our gangsters, guests and staff healthy and safe. Join us in Landmark Center’s eerie Cortile atrium for a new Halloween gangster experience!
“Gangster Ghost Tales” will feature St. Paul’s most infamous gangsters and lawmen, with a humorous musical twist, telling their stories before a seated audience. With your ticket you will safely enter Landmark Center, be seated at your reserved table, enjoy a delicious dessert, and purchase a beverage at the Spook-easy Bar.
“Gangster Ghost Tales” is Friday, October 30. Two showtimes: 5 pm or 7:30 pm. Tickets are $10 per person (suitable for ages 12+) and limited to parties of 1-4. Tickets, available starting October 1.
BUY TICKETS HERE

History Play: Obscenity On Trial: The Case Against Dr. Charles Malchow
2021-10-07 19:00 - 21:00, 2021-10-08 19:00 - 21:00, 2021-10-10 14:00 - 16:00 (America/Chicago) | F. K. Weyerhaeuser Aud. – Landmark Center, 75 5th St. W., Saint Paul, MN, 55102, United States
Please note we require all guests to present proof of either full COVID-19 vaccination or a negative COVID-19 test result taken within 72 hours prior to attending.
History Plays return to Landmark Center this fall with “Obscenity On Trial: The Case Against Dr. Charles Malchow,” written by Thomas Fabel. Set in 1904, this production explores the repercussions of the Comstock Act of 1873, which prohibited the use of U.S. Mail for any “obscene, lewd, lascivious, immoral or indecent” publications. When a mailed pamphlet promoting the sale of the book was brought to the attention of the United States Attorney, whose office happened to be in room 301 in Landmark Center, he was prosecuted by the federal government.
Please note this play references mature themes and is recommended for ages 16 and up.

History Play: Alvin Karpis: The Last Public Enemy #1
2022-10-06 19:00 - 21:00, 2022-10-07 19:00 - 21:00, 2022-10-09 14:00 - 16:00 | F. K. Weyerhaeuser Aud. – Landmark Center, 75 5th St. W., Saint Paul, MN, 55102, United States
Alvin “Creepy” Karpis was the last 1930’s gangster to be named Public Enemy #1 by the FBI; the last major gangster to be captured; the only person ever arrested by J. Edgar Hoover and the only gangster chained to a radiator “like an animal” in Landmark Center. The play explores the life of Alvin Karpis, the Barker-Karpis gang and infamous kidnappings, how corruption helped his gang to be so successful and how he was finally brought to face justice in the Federal Courthouse in St. Paul.
Landmark Center’s History Play performance series is a theater program designed to bring to life many of the trials, court decisions, legal ramifications, and other related events that were relevant to Landmark Center when it was the Federal Courts Building. Noted Twin Cities judges, legal practitioners, and academics often trade robes for costumes to bring the events to life.

History Play: War, Resistance, and Protest: The Trial of the “Minnesota 8”
2023-10-05 19:00 - 21:00, 2023-10-06 19:00 - 21:00 | F. K. Weyerhaeuser Aud. – Landmark Center, 75 5th St. W., Saint Paul, MN, 55102, United States
With an all-star cast of Twin Cities lawyers and judges, 2023’s History Play takes place in 1970, the year the anti-war movement intensified among college students who were protesting President Richard M. Nixon’s military efforts in Vietnam. On trial was the Minnesota 8, students with connections to the University of Minnesota, arrested for breaking into draft offices throughout the state in attempt to destroy draft records.
Landmark Center’s History Play performance series is a theater program designed to bring to life many of the trials, court decisions, legal ramifications, and other related events that were relevant to Landmark Center when it was the Federal Courts Building. Noted Twin Cities judges, legal practitioners, and academics often trade robes for costumes to bring the events to life.
Find tickets here.

History Play: War, Resistance, and Protest: The Trial of the “Minnesota 8”
2023-10-07 14:00 - 16:00 | F. K. Weyerhaeuser Aud. – Landmark Center, 75 5th St. W., Saint Paul, MN, 55102, United States
With an all-star cast of Twin Cities lawyers and judges, 2023’s History Play takes place in 1970, the year the anti-war movement intensified among college students who were protesting President Richard M. Nixon’s military efforts in Vietnam. On trial was the Minnesota 8, students with connections to the University of Minnesota, arrested for breaking into draft offices throughout the state in attempt to destroy draft records.
Landmark Center’s History Play performance series is a theater program designed to bring to life many of the trials, court decisions, legal ramifications, and other related events that were relevant to Landmark Center when it was the Federal Courts Building. Noted Twin Cities judges, legal practitioners, and academics often trade robes for costumes to bring the events to life.
Tickets found here.

TheatreX presents Frost/Nixon
2024-04-12 19:30, 2024-04-13 14:00, 2024-04-20 14:00, 2024-04-21 14:00 | Courtroom 317 – Landmark Center, 75 5th St. W., Saint Paul, MN, 55102, United States
THE STORY
Following Richard Nixon’s fall from grace, resignation from the Presidency, and subsequent pardon, the American people are left searching for answers. The truth the nation so desperately needs may come in the most unlikely place – a “puff piece” interview with lowbrow British talk show host David Frost. The two titans meet in a surprising battle of words and wits. ​
THE SETTING
THEATREX is performing FROST/NIXON in a historic courtroom at Landmark Center, a former federal courthouse. This gives the audience a front row seat to one of the most pivotal stories in American politics. Richard Nixon never got his day in court to answer for his crimes. We thought we’d change that.​
DATES AND TICKETS
Tickets are $30 for adults and $25 for seniors (65+) and students. All seating is general admission – pick your seats when you arrive. Performances are:Fri. APR 12, 7:30pmSat. APR 13, 2pmSat. APR 20 2pmSun. APR 21, 2pm
PURCHASE TICKETS HERE

League of Women Voters Open House & "Time for Women" Play
2024-08-20 14:00 - 18:00 | Landmark Center, 75 5th St W, Saint Paul, MN, 55102, United States
Join League of Women Voters of Minnesota on August 20 for an Open House Reception in their new offices at Landmark Center #315, and stay for a spirited play, “Time for Women,” to celebrate Women’s Equality Day (when the 19th Amendment was passed), and notable women and suffragists in Minnesota history.
The offices are open for viewing from 2:00 pm to 3:30 pm, with refreshments, and features our new history and art displays throughout our offices. The play is at 4:00 pm, and is free, but seats must be reserved. Thanks to LWV member Jane Peck and her wonderful “History Live Lanesboro” for this celebration of our suffrage history. You can come for just the Open House or just the Play – or come for both! Convenient parking across the street (for a fee) at the Lawson Ramp and surrounding areas.

History Play: Little Rock, 1942
2024-10-03 19:00 - 21:00, 2024-10-04 19:00 - 21:00, 2024-10-05 14:00 - 16:00 | F. K. Weyerhaeuser Aud. – Landmark Center, 75 5th St. W., Saint Paul, MN, 55102, United States
With an all-star cast of Twin Cities lawyers and judges, 2024’s History Play is the true story of a civil rights lawsuit that brought Thurgood Marshall to St. Paul, and led to the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision.
In 1942, Sue Cowan Williams, formerly knows as Susie Morris, head of the Dunbar High School English Department and a member of the Little Rock Classroom Teachers Association, sued the school district for equal pay for black teachers. With the assistance of Thurgood Marshall, an attorney from the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Williams won her case in the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Landmark Center’s History Play performance series is a theater program designed to bring to life many of the trials, court decisions, legal ramifications, and other related events that were relevant to Landmark Center when it was the Federal Courts Building. Noted Twin Cities judges, legal practitioners, and academics often trade robes for costumes to bring the events to life.
A play by Terrance C. Newby and James Lundy. Directed by Chad Snyder.
Purchase tickets here!
