Ordway Center for the Performing Arts
Location
345 Washington St
St Paul, MN
55102
United States
Phone:
651-224-4222
44° 56' 40.4988" N, 93° 5' 51.5256" W
See map: Google Maps
A theater in St Paul showing a wide variety of plays, musicals and other performances. There are very affordable school performances at which homeschoolers are welcome. The Ordway is also home to the Flint Hills International Children's Festival, held every summer.
Parking Information: There are numerous parking ramps within easy walking distance. The closest ramps are The St. Paul, RiverCentre, Lawson Commons, Kellogg Street Ramp, and Landmark Towers. More detailed information about parking in Saint Paul can be found at www.smart-trips.org
Driving Directions: The Ordway is located in downtown Saint Paul at 345 Washington St. The entrance is on Washington St between W 5th St and Kellogg Blvd. The Ordway is directly across the street from Rice Park and is on the same block as River Centre, Xcel Eneergy Center, and the Roy Wilkins Auditorium as well as kitty-corner from The Landmark Center.
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Public field trips at Ordway Center for the Performing Arts
Wednesday, April 1, 2020 - 11:00am - 1:30pm
COVID-19
The Ordway has cancelled the student matinee performance of The Color Purple. Refunds will be given but will take longer than usual to process. The volunteer event organizer will disperse refunds as soon as she receives them. If you'd like to convert the cost of your tickets into a donation to the Ordway, please let the volunteer event organizer know via text message or email.
Music...
Thursday, March 19, 2020 - 12:00pm - 1:00pm
COVID-19
The Ordway has cancelled all student matinee performances of Danu. Refunds will be given but will take longer than usual to process. The volunteer event organizer will disperse refunds as soon as she receives them. If you'd like to convert the cost of your tickets into a donation to the Ordway, please let the volunteer event organizer know via text message or email.
Concert Hall
Hailing...
Thursday, February 27, 2020 - 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Concert Hall
Taiko is the Japanese word for drum, and refers to the modern style of playing: high-energy performance combining dance and martial arts with traditional Japanese percussion. HERbeat is a powerful celebration of gender equity in Taiko that puts women center stage!
Performance is 60 minutes.
A Study Guide in PDF format will be posted online 3 to 4 weeks prior the performance.
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Thursday, February 13, 2020 - 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Due to unforeseen circumstances, the Ordway has had to cancel the Ragamala Dance Company school performance on Thursday, February 13th at 12pm. Refunds have been sent to all There are three additional student performances (that have not been cancelled). Those are Thu 13 Feb at 10am and Fri 14 Feb at 10am or 12pm. If you'd like to attend one of those, you may purchase tickets by calling the Ordway...
Wednesday, February 5, 2020 - 11:00am - 1:30pm
Music Theater
Music. Fire. Rain. Passion. And that’s just the opening number.
The sweeping, universal tale of Ti Moune, a fearless peasant girl in search of her place in the world, and ready to risk it all for love. Guided by the mighty island gods, Ti Moune sets out on a remarkable journey to reunite with the man who has captured her heart. This Tony award-winning musical is a highly original...
Thursday, October 3, 2019 - 10:30am - 12:00pm
Ordway Concert Hall
From Dream Girls to Mean Girls, this installment of Ordway Cabaret takes on the songs and stories of musical theater’s most iconic female characters to critique and celebrate the portrayal of women on stage and behind the scenes through powerful performances and impactful stories with songs from Ragtime, Oklahoma, Waitress, and more! Featuring Christina Baldwin and a cast of...
Friday, April 19, 2019 - 10:30am - 11:30am
Ordway Music Theater
Music & Movement Series
Back by popular demand! Black Violin is the exhilarating violin/viola hip-hop duo of classically trained musicians Kevin “Kev Marcus” Sylvester and violist Wil “Wil B.” Baptiste. The two met as high school orchestra nerds; today they play genre-bending music, radically fusing hip-hop and pop with classical to create a kaleidoscope of sounds...
Friday, March 1, 2019 - 10:30am - 11:30am
Music Theater
Ride the wind and dream with Air Play, a modern spectacle that brings to life the very air we breathe. Flying umbrellas, larger-than-life balloons, giant kites floating over the audience, and the biggest snow globe you’ve ever seen will make you gasp in wonder and laugh until it hurts.
Air Play is a circus-style adventure of two siblings journeying through a surreal land of air,...
Thursday, January 31, 2019 - 10:30am - 12:00pm
Ordway Concert Hall
The New Ordway Cabaret performances will feature local performers in a cabaret format, whose performances will question stereotypes and celebrate breaking barriers. The desire to please and provoke continues the tradition of writers like Shakespeare and Puccini, whose works Romeo and Juliet and La Bohème inspired the musicals West Side Story and Rent. In those musicals, and in...
Thursday, December 6, 2018 - 11:00am - 1:30pm
Ordway Music Theater
Broadway
Elf The Musical is the hilarious tale of Buddy, a young orphan child who mistakenly crawls into Santa’s bag of gifts and is transported back to the North Pole. Unaware that he is actually human, a growing Buddy’s enormous size and poor toy-making abilities finally cause him to face the truth. With Santa’s permission, Buddy embarks on a journey to New York City to...
