From going behind the scenes with the legendary Ruth Bader Ginsburg, to kicking back with country music star Mickey Guyton, to partying with Mrs. Krishnan, there is something for everyone in the season ahead.
As a proud cornerstone of St. Catherine University’s connection to the local community, we at The O’Shaughnessy hope you will be with us this season. Joining us this fall is author and journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates to talk about his book, The Message, selected through a community process as our 2025 One Read for Racial Justice book. Our students, faculty, and staff will be reading, reflecting, and learning with the text this year. In March, we are proud to welcome the Honorable Valerie Jarrett, CEO of the Barack Obama Foundation and former senior policy advisor to President Obama, for whom she chaired the White House Council for Women and Girls.
your family, and friends to discover new insights and learning through the arts and speaker series.
MEMBERSHIP MEANS MORE
Our mission at St. Kate’s — educating women to lead and influence — is reflected through all of our programming. We invite you,
New this year, we are thrilled to launch a membership model at The O’Shaughnessy. For a gift of $1,000 or $500, we offer your household a pair of subscriptions for this season and ticket vouchers to bring your friends and family with you for free. Your membership provides: deeper roots in our community, commitment to bring the most imaginative and diverse artists to our stage, resources to activate our work at the intersection of arts and social justice, and ensurance that we are here for years to come. Your membership and support are essential in helping us achieve our continued renewal. Thank you for your consideration of membership for the upcoming season!
—Irene Green, Executive Director
The O’Shaughnessy Presents
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LOVER: The Unofficial Eras Tour
Fri. Aug. 29, 6:30 p.m. | $33 oshag.stkate.edu/lover
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Lover, a Taylor Swift tribute, is a professional, high-class, full-band, faithful production reflecting the iconic Eras Tour. Showcasing all eleven of Taylor Swift’s albums with unique “Taylor-made” outfits, signature choreography, reminiscent elements, and corresponding graphics, Lover mirrors the glam,
ALL THINGS EQUAL: The Life and Trials of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Over the course of 90 fascinating and often funny minutes, this play presents an intimate portrayal of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a true American original. Written by Tony Award-winning playwright Rupert Holmes and starring acclaimed actress Michelle Azar.
Mickey Guyton is a four-time, Grammy-nominated artist and country music trailblazer.
Over the course of her career, Mickey has been recognized for her musical achievements, including being named TIME Magazine’s Breakthrough Artist of the Year in 2022 and CMT’s Breakout Artist of the Year in 2021.
Heralded by Rolling Stone as “one of country music’s most important voices,” Mickey Guyton “raises the rafters and distills emotion with impeccable clarity. Her high notes thrill, her nuance in storytelling captivates. A star for our times claims her place.” (NPR)
Honoring the 50th anniversary, this story centers on the mysterious sinking of “The Fitz,” lost with all hands in a raging storm on Lake Superior, November 10, 1975.
Kevin Kling, Prudence Johnson, Ruth MacKenzie, and Claudia Schmidt head an all-star cast that revisits the final voyage of the Great Lakes ore freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald with GALES OF NOVEMBER, a touring concert adaptation of the critically acclaimed play TEN NOVEMBER.
Join us for a performance and conversation. What happens in communities after an incident of police violence? How do we heal and move forward?
Led by nationally-recognized director and choreographer Dominic MooreDunson, Aftermath brings together voices of St. Catherine University’s student body and local Twin Cities artists to explore healing, resilience, and collective action through movement and storytelling.
This project is informed by an exhibition of murals created during the 2020 uprising in Minneapolis, collected and preserved by local nonprofit Memorialize The Movement (memorializethemovement.com). The exhibit is hosted by the Catherine G. Murphy Gallery and the Frey Theater at St. Kate’s from September 6 through November 16, 2025. For more information, visit, gallery.stkate.edu.
This event features a dynamic discussion panel, in partnership with Katie Leadership Impact, that brings together artists, activists, and cultural leaders who are using their voices and their work to challenge injustice, amplify marginalized stories, and imagine a more equitable world.
NOT THE RIGHT MOM
Sun. Nov. 16, 2 p.m. | $33
oshag.stkate.edu/mom
A dynamic solo show written and performed by Megan Dolan, Not the Right Mom is a heartfelt comedy about a mother raising a son on the spectrum who feels she’s falling short of expectations. With humor, warmth, and brutal honesty, Megan persists through painful playdates, bewildering support groups, and crazy-making meal times — taking countless wrong turns along the way.
“ Megan gifts the audience the one thing every parent is looking for: a safe space to redefine heroism as the ability to laugh, love, and cry all while wanting to slow down time because you don’t want to miss a thing.”
—LA Parent Magazine
Kevin Kling and Friends: TALES FROM THE CHARRED UNDERBELLY OF THE YULE LOG
Kevin Kling, Dan Chouinard, and Simone Perrin perform their celebrated holiday show, Tales From the Charred Underbelly of the Yule Log. Joined again by the ever-popular Brass Messengers, the show has been performed every year since 1995 and has become a holiday tradition for many.
Letters Aloud presents BE THE CHANGE, a lively and inspiring performance that brings to life over a dozen letters written by young people to their heroes throughout history, the responses they received, and their powerful impact on society. Among the many letters in this program, Stan Lee makes good on a decadesold promise, a 9-year-old hoopster consults NBA superstar Steph Curry on his shoe empire, a teenage Tom Hanks tries to get “discovered”, and an 11-year-old girl tells Abraham Lincoln to grow a beard. Our production will include letters written by St. Kate’s students and stakeholders. BE THE CHANGE is a powerful reminder that writing one single letter can truly change the world.
Saturday night and the weight of the week has eased up, you have all of Sunday to repent and/or sleep it off. The floor is lit, your shoes are platformed, your bottoms are belled and even though your suit is called a leisure, you still gotta work it. So, squeeze your shag, Afro, or mullet into that muscle car and boogie on down to St. Kate’s because Valentine’s Day this year… IT’S SATURDAY NIGHT! The Love Show is an annual O’Shaughnessy tradition.
Katie Leadership Impact Women of Color Leadership Series
Winner of a Naumburg International Violin Competition Honorarium Prize and featured in the Smithsonian Museum for African-American History, Ms. Hall-Tompkins is a violin soloist entrepreneur who has been acclaimed by the New York Times as “the versatile violinist who makes the music come alive.” She was “Fiddler”/ Violin Soloist of the Grammy/Tonynominated Broadway production of Fiddler on the Roof. Working at the intersection of music and social justice, Ms. Hall-Tompkins brings her electrifying artistry and powerful voice for equity together in concert, The Fiddler Expanding Tradition, and a conversation about her nonprofit organization Music Kitchen-Food for the Soul.
Presented through generous support by The Manitou Fund.
Indian Ink Theatre Company MRS KRISHNAN’S PARTY
Thurs. March 26, 7 p.m.
Fri. March 27, 2 p.m., 7 p.m.
Sat. March 28, 2 p.m., 7 p.m.
Sun. March 29, 2 p.m.
$36 | oshag.stkate.edu/party
You’re invited!
Step into the back room of Mrs Krishnan’s convenience store where garlands decorate the ceiling, music flows, and Mrs Krishnan is throwing a party like no other. Food simmers on the stove, laughter abounds, and strangers become friends in this joyous celebration of life.
Watch as the actors juggle cooking, music, audiences, and heart-felt drama in an acting tour de force where no two nights are the same. No party is complete without food — your ticket includes something special cooked by Mrs Krishnan herself.
FREY THEATER
BABA YAGA AND THE FIREBIRD
Sun. April 19, 2 p.m. | $33 oshag.stkate.edu/babayaga
In this exuberant yet heartwarming original story based on Slavic folklore, two performers play over fifteen roles, with the help of a host of puppets. The world of Baba Yaga and the Firebird bursts forth from the pages of a pop-up book and tells the story of a princess and a pauper who take a fantastical journey to beg the witch, Baba Yaga, for a firebird. Along the way, the wonder of the natural world and the enchanting people who inhabit it come alive through a musical form that is both unique and rooted in the oral tradition of storytelling.
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St. Catherine University 2025 One Read For Racial Justice The Message A CONVERSATION WITH TA-NEHISI COATES
Ta-Nehisi Coates is an awardwinning author and journalist. His books include The Water Dancer and The Message. He is currently a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and the Sterling Brown Endowed Chair in the English department at Howard University.
“Ta-Nehisi Coates is the James Baldwin of our era.”
—Isabel Wilkerson
Moderated by Angela Davis of MPR News
Bonnie Jean Kelly and Joan Kelly Distinguished Visiting Scholars Lecture
VALERIE
JARRETT,
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER, THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION
Thurs. March 5, 7 p.m. | $42 oshag.stkate.edu/jarrett
The Honorable Valerie Jarrett is chief executive officer and a member of the board of directors of The Obama Foundation, where she is overseeing the creation of a new world-class cultural and civic institution on Chicago’s South Side, and the Foundation’s programs that inspire, empower, and connect people to change their world. Ms. Jarrett is also a Senior Distinguished Fellow at the University of Chicago Law School and the author of the New York Times-bestselling book Finding My Voice: My Journey to the West Wing and the Path Forward. Ms. Jarrett was the senior advisor to President Barack Obama from 2009 to 2017, making her the longest-serving senior advisor to a president in history. She oversaw the Offices of Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs and chaired the White House Council on Women and Girls.
THE BONNIE JEAN KELLY AND JOAN KELLY DISTINGUISHED VISITING
SCHOLAR FUND was established in 2006 by Joan Kelly ’46 to bring nationally-known scholars to St. Kate’s for seminars, workshops, and classroom discussions. It is one of the three prestigious programs designed to recognize academic excellence and grow the national visibility of St. Catherine University.
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The O’Shaughnessy is proud to host and support local professional dance companies. Visit oshag.stkate.edu/dance for the most up-to-date information.
ANANYA DANCE THEATRE
Sept. 19 and 20, 7:30 p.m.
Ananya Dance Theatre marks their 20th year of People Powered Dances of Transformation with Swapno Jhnāp: Dream Jumping. Dancing together opens portals to the future, drawing on the feminist spiritual practice of quantum jumping. Five journeys, five portals, and five medicines birth the miracle of a deeply connected universe.
Many community arts organizations call The O’Shaughnessy home. Ticket prices vary by event. For more information, visit oshag.stkate.edu.
Fellowship for the Performing Arts
THE SCREWTAPE LETTERS
Aug. 9, 4 p.m.
Indian Music Society of Minnesota
SUCHISMITA AND DEBOPRIYA CHATTERJEE (Flute Sisters)
Aug. 31, 5 p.m.
Recital Hall
Indian Music Society of Minnesota
SANDIPAN SAMAJPATI (Hindustani Vocal)
Sept. 13, 7 p.m.
Recital Hall
Indian Music Society of Minnesota
AISHWARYA SHANKAR (Carnatic Vocal)
Sept. 20, 7 p.m.
Recital Hall
Dakota Presents HERB ALPERT AND THE TIJUANA BRASS & OTHER DELIGHTS
