Bedlam Studio, established in 1996, was a venue for the creation and presentation of radical performing arts.  We moved out in December of 2006, below’s how we used to describe it. Bedlam’s West Bank Studio Theatre is a 2400 square foot blackbox style venue (well, the walls are actually red, but you get the idea). Alongside the work of the Bedlam company, we host innovative performances by both community members and local and visting creative artists.

**** Bedlam Studio is available for guest productions, rehearsal space, private functions or chartered performances at various times throughout the year.

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All our studio events reflect and inform Bedlam’s overtly playful performance style, which combines low-tech spectacle, experimental adventure, satyric barbarism and socio-political imagination. Blurring the lines between a cutting edge professional company and a vibrant community art space, Bedlam Theatre and Bedlam Studio have been a bubbling spring of invention for Twin Cities artists and audiences for more then a decade.

For example, in recent years we’ve hosted performances by Empere Theater and Unraveling Muses, with shows directed by legendary political theater master Maxine Klein. We’ve also hosted the continued development of Ariel Pinkerton’s personal reflections on love and sexual violence, "Teach Me Tonight."

After ten years on the West Bank, our longtime partnership with BareBones Productions, and our deep ties to the local collective worker milieu, we have developed a strong community art component to the Bedlam aesthetic. Events throughout the year, such as ROMPS, the Dance Off!, and the annual Bedlam Community Ten-Minute Play Festival empower artists of all experience levels to participate in the creation of original works of performing art.

For more than your ever wanted to know about Studio history, CLICK HERE…