Best Costumer
Kathy Kohl
The Threepenny Opera
City Pages
Five gold stars.
2015
2014
Best Solo Performance
Sha Cage
Grounded
Lavender
Best Dramatic Supporting Actress
Katherine Ferrand
The New Electric Ballroom
Lavender
2013
Best Sound Design
Michael Croswell
Misterman
Lavender
Best Sound Design
Michael Croswell
Misterman
City Pages
Best Actor
John Catron
Misterman
City Pages
Best Sound Design
Michael Croswell
Misterman
Ivey Award
Best of Theater
Misterman
StarTribune
2011
Best Holiday Show
The Santaland Diaries
Metro Magazine
Best Director
Wendy Knox
Cabaret
Lavender
Best Musical Director
Mike Croswell
Cabaret
Lavender
Best Supporting Actor
Melissa Hart
Cabaret
Lavender
Best Actor
Bradley Greenwald
Cabaret
City Pages
Best Musical
Cabaret
City Pages
Best Productions 2011
Ajax In Iraq
Lavender
2010
Best Productions 2010
Eclipsed
City Pages
People’s Choice, Best Show
The Santaland Diaries
Metro Magazine
2009
Best Productions 2009
Palace of the End
City Pages
Best Productions 2009
By the Bog of Cats
Lavender
Best Productions 2009
Palace of the End
Lavender
Best Actor (Patrick Bailey)
Palace of the End
City Pages
Favorite Performer
Taous Khazem
Palace of the End
Minnpost.com
Theatre Artist of the Decade
Wendy Knox
Lavender
2008
Best Director
Wendy Knox
City Pages
2006
Best Production
Venus
City Pages
Best Director
Wendy Knox
Venus
Lavender
Best Costumer
Kathy Kohl
Venus
Star Tribune
Best Production
Venus
City Pages
Best Actor
Annie Enneking
Mother Courage
Lavender
Best Production
Mother Courage
Lavender
Set Design
John Bueche
Mother Courage
City Pages
Best Actor
Annie Enneking
Mother Courage
Star Tribune
Best Independent Theatre
City Pages
2005
Best Actor
Phil Kilbourne
The Love Song of J. Robert Oppenheimer
City Pages
2004
Best Set Design
John Bueche
Fucking A
Star Tribune
Top 10 of 2004
Fucking A
Pioneer Press
Top 10 of 2004
Fucking A
City Pages
Best Area Premiere
Fucking A
City Pages
Best Independent Theatre
City Pages
2003
Top 10 Shows of 2003
The Cradle Will Rock
City Pages
Best in Theatre 2003
The Cradle Will Rock
Lavender Magazine
Best Musical?Small Theatre
The Cradle Will Rock
Star Tribune
Top 10 of 2003
The Cradle Will Rock
Pioneer Press
2002
Top 10 of 2002
Self-Defense, or the death of some salesmen
City Pages
Best Actress
Phyllis Wright
Self-Defense, or the death of some salesmen
Lavender
Best of Theater 2002
Self-Defense, or the death of some salesmen
Lavender
Theatre Artist of the Year
Virginia Burke
The Taming of the Shrew
Lavender
Best of 2002
Wendy Knox [Honorable Mention]
The Taming of the Shrew
Star Tribune
2001
Best use of space; place in ecosystem
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
Star Tribune
Best Plays of 2001
Perfect Pie
Pioneer Press
2000
The Best of Theatre 2000
The Adventures of Herculina
City Pages
1999
Top Ten of 1999
The Threepenny Opera
City Pages
Best Actor
Steve Hendrickson
The Threepenny Opera
City Pages
Best Stage Production
The Threepenny Opera
City Pages
Top Ten of 1999
The Threepenny Opera
Pioneer Press
1998
Artists of the Year
Ruth Mackenzie
Kalevala: Dream of the Salmon Maiden
City Pages
1996
Top Theatre Productions
Measure for Measure
Twin Cities Reader