pioneer previews

The 2014 Paul Bunyan Playhouse season starts this week with the comedy “Noises Off,” which will make its debut on Wednesday at the Historic Chief Theatre in downtown Bemidji. The play is described as “the funniest farce ever written.” They comedy actually is a type of play-within-a-play...

I am pleased to extend an invitation to you to attend a performance of “Captain Snap and the Children of Vinegar Lane” on behalf the young actors, their teachers, parents, grandparents and producers Tuesday at 1:30 and 5:30 p.m. at Solway School. The play, under the direction...

A musical weekend ends with the Home Free concert at 7 tonight at the Bemidji High School Auditorium with tickets at the door, if available. This concert will also feature the final 2014 competition shows featuring both Vocalmotive and La Voce Ballo and a special appearance by the...

A concert featuring national dances from Bohemia, a major fundraiser for the Global Mission Projects, will begin at 2 p.m. today at First Lutheran Church, Ninth Street and Bemidji Ave. Paul and Helen Baumgartner, retired professors from Gustavus Adolphus College, will perform sitting...

“Classical Celebrations!” by Bemidji Symphony Orchestra will begin at 3 p.m. today at Bemidji High School. Violinist Everaldo Martinez of the Bismarck-Mandan Symphony Orchestra will be the guest artist. Martinez is in demand as an orchestral and chamber music...

On Thursday, the Bemidji Public Library will hold its first Poetry Slam of the spring season. The event is at 7 p.m. at the American Legion, 217 Minnesota Ave. NW, with music by Sonny Johnson. If you didn’t know, a poetry slam is a competition where poets read or recite original...

BEMIDJI — The Oxcars — a Celebration of Excellence for Regional Theaters from November 2012 through November 2013 — will honor Bemidji Community Theater, Northern Light Opera, Minnesota Folklore Theater and Mask and Rose Women’s Theater Collective. The Masters of Ceremony,...

Just when you thought you knew the real story about Pinocchio, his father Geppetto gets to tell his side of the story with Disney’s “My Son Pinocchio.” And if you want to be part of the telling, Bemidji Community Theater and the Paul Bunyan Playhouse will be holding auditions...

BEMIDJI — “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee,” a production of the Mask and Rose Theater, opens this week. Directed by Cate Belleveau, this interactive musical comedy where the audience becomes part of the action centers on a fictional spelling bee in Putnam County,...

BEMIDJI—For those who would like an alternative to ice fishing this winter, check out the various arts classes that are being given in January and into February by Headwaters School of Music and the Arts and the Bemidji Community Arts Center. Just to initiate the timid amateur to...