Evenitto's guide · Minneapolis–St. Paul
Holiday shows
December is the theater's busiest month. In the Twin Cities the Guthrie has staged A Christmas Carol every holiday season since 1975, and The Nutcracker, holiday musicals and family shows fill the stages until New Year's. The popular ones sell out early.
What's on in December
Holidays
A Christmas Carol
Dickens's ghost story of Scrooge's Christmas Eve. The Guthrie has staged it every year since 1975, and its 2026 run opens on November 11.
Holidays
The Nutcracker
Tchaikovsky's ballet with snowflakes, a growing tree and the Sugar Plum Fairy. In Minneapolis, Loyce Houlton's Nutcracker Fantasy dances at the State Theatre with a live orchestra.
The Nutcracker productions of 2026, with dates and pricesHolidays
Black Nativity
Langston Hughes's gospel retelling of the Christmas story, sung at Penumbra in St. Paul every December.
Holidays
Family and holiday shows
The Children's Theatre Company's How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, Theater Latté Da's All Is Calm about the Christmas truce of 1914, and holiday shows across the metro.
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