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The Duluth Playhouse presents The One-act Play that Goes Wrong, a comedy that is part Monty Python, part Sherlock Holmes. Performances run Jan. 31 to Feb. 9. Synopsis: You’re invited to the opening night of the Cornley University Drama Society’s newest production, The Murder at Haversham Manor, where things are quickly going from bad to utterly disastrous. This 1920s whodunit has everything you never wanted in a show — an unconscious leading lady, a corpse that can’t play dead, and…

The UMD Department of Theatre presents a new adaptation of William Shakespeare’s play that blends the timeless magic of the Bard with bold, modern, original touches. ASL-interpreted performance on Feb. 15. Tickets are available at z.umn.edu/tempest.

This romantic comedy chronicles the unlikely courtship between a poet and a pizza-delivery boy. Raina is determined to find that great love one only reads about in Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s sonnets, and it arrives on her doorstep one day in the form of a scruffy pizza-delivery boy who flunked high-school English. Written by Duluth playwright Jessica Peterson, String was the runner-up for the Kennedy Center Mark Twain Comedy Playwriting Award. Tickets are available at agileticketing.net.

This modern musical chronicles the five-year life of a marriage about two New Yorkers in their twenties, from meeting to breakup and from breakup to meeting. Jason Robert Brown’s Drama Desk winner has been translated into a handful of languages and was named one of Time Magazine‘s ten best shows of 2001. A film adaptation was released in 2014, starring Anna Kendrick and Jeremy Jordan.

UMD Theatre presents Kevin Kling's The Ice Fishing Play in the Marshall Performing Arts Center's Dudley Experimental Theatre. Performances run March 7-23. Synopsis: A parade of colorful characters visit Ron, a taciturn fisherman determined to hunker down in his ice house and finally catch an elusive fish while a blizzard rages outside. As the radio cycles through school closures we come to realize how great the stakes really are for Ron.

The Duluth Playhouse presents The Light in the Piazza, a musical based on the book by Craig Lucas, with music and lyrics by Adam Guettel. Performances run March 14-30. Travel with American tourists Margaret Johnson and her daughter Clara as they take in the wonders of Florence, Italy, in the summer of 1953. When a fateful gust of wind whisks Clara’s hat into the hands of Fabrizio, it’s amore at first sight. Heralded as a work of consummate beauty when…