Smoking Gun? That's Two Bills to Sen. Barb Goodwin

All in day's work for MN senator representing Fridley: She introduced legislation Thursday to put a stop to on-stage smoking and felon gun-rights.

Felons wouldn't be able to get their gun rights back and actors wouldn't be able to smoke on stage if two bills state Sen. Barb Goodwin introduced Thursday become law. The bill prohibiting felons from petitioning for restored firearms rights is the first legislation regarding guns in the new session of the Minnesota Legislature that started Jan. 8, 2013. Both the smoking and gun bills are issues Goodwin has pushed in previously at the Minnesota Senate:        

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Let Fridley Middle School Actors Take You to 'Funky Land'

Catch the performance at the Fridley School District stage at 7 p.m. Saturday.

Calvin Christian High School Presents "Arsenic & Old Lace"

Student actors hit the stage at 7 p.m. Saturday.

'Radio Daze' Hits Stage at Fridley High School March 29-31

Students put on the show at 7 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday.

See student actors recreate the 1940s in the comedy Radio Daze at the Fridley District Auditorium, Fridley High School on Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 7 p.m. Tickets are $9 for adults and $6 for students and senior citizens. To reserve seats, call 763-502-5077 or order online the Fridley School District website.  You can also buy tickets at the door before each performance. The laughs are lurking everywhere in Radio Daze as a radio station is turned upside-down amid rumors of enemy spies on the premises with a radio melodrama in the works. Travel back to the pre-Internet era when Fridley was founded at Fridley District Auditorium this weekend!

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VIDEO: Fridley Middle Students Sing, Dance, Fight Nazis in 'Sound of Music'

Seventh and eighth grade students are rehearsing for this weekend's shows.

Fridley Middle School's seventh and eighth graders will hone their theatrical chops this weekend during their production of The Sound of Music.  Performances will be held at 7 p.m. on March 15, 16 and 17 at the Fridley District Audiorium at Fridley High School. Tickets are $5 for adults and $3 for students.

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A. Meisner

9:52 am on Wednesday, March 14, 2012

It's great to see youth in our community get involved in the Performing Arts!   more ›

See a Fridley 'Oliver!' at 1 p.m. Saturday

Moore Than Dance cast Fridley familes for shows at Totino-Grace.

Fridley residents can see a whole lot of neighbors in Moore Than Dance's production of Oliver! on the last two days of the year. There are two shows: Friday at 7 p.m., and Saturday at 1 p.m., at Totino-Grace High School. You can get tickets at the door or by calling 763-432-0950. Cost is $10 for adults and $7 for students and senior citizens. The cast of 40 has more children and teens than adults, according to director and choreographer Angela Mannella-Hoffman. Many in the cast are from Fridley families, in some cases including siblings and parents: William Huseonica is playing Fagin, leader of a crowd of orphan characters that includes his daughters Helena, 12, and Olivia, 11, and son Calvin, 8. (Olivia is also a strawberry seller in Act …

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'Twelve Angry Jurors' at Columbia Heights High School

Students present the play over three nights.

Photos: 'The Crucible' As You've Never Seen It Before at SLPHS

Spring Lake Park High School puts on the Arthur Miller classic.

In 1954, Arthur Miller wrote The Crucible, a dramatization of the Salem witch trials in Massachusetts in the 1600s. This year the award-winning Spring Lake Park High School drama department has gone a different direction. As described on the school's website: "In the not-too-far-distant future, the world has been ravaged by war and disease. In a remote corner of what was once America a group of people have created a life out of the ashes of society. They have resorted to the Puritanical ways of early New England, going so far as to name their settlement "Salem," oblivious to the events that had taken place in their namesake town 500 years prior. "The Crucible" shows a community which ignites and burns with accusations of witchcraft, mass …

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Totino-Grace High School Presents 'Anything Goes'

Five performances include Sunday matinee, Friday-Saturday ''Dinner and a Show.'

Beginning this evening and culminating in a Sunday matinee, the award-winning Totino-Grace High School music and drama departments are presenting the musical Anything Goes. With music and lyrics by Cole Porter, Anything Goes is based on a book by Guy Bolton and P.G. Wodehouse, as revised for its 1934 Broadway debut by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse. (It's the same show the Fridley Community Theatre presented last summer.) Set aboard the S. S. American, the story follows the madcap antics of Billy Crocker, played by Joseph Stagg, as he stows away on the ship to woo the mysterious woman he fell in love with on a taxi ride—the lovely heiress Hope Harcourt (Megan Hahn), traveling to England with her fiancee Sir Evelyn Oakleigh (Spencer Kopp…

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