The One-Act Play That Goes Wrong, at the Norshor Theatre Jan. 31-Feb. 9.

Y2K Celebration of Life Drag Show
Friday, Jan. 31, 8 pm
Wild State Cider
Turn back the clock and remember to turn off your computers before midnight because it’s the 2000s, baby! Join Sissy S’mores and others for your daily dose of nostalgia and drag in this show by Zenith City Horror.

The One-Act Play That Goes Wrong
Jan. 31-Feb. 9
Norshor Theatre
It’s opening night of the Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society’s newest murder mystery play where things are quickly going from bad to utterly disastrous, with an unconscious leading lady, a corpse that refuses to stay dead and actors who trip over everything, including their lines.

It Happened on Route 66
Jan. 31-Feb. 9
Encore Performing Arts, Cloquet
America’s second most famous highway (after our own Highway 61 – hey, it’s arguable) is the backdrop for this comedy set in an Arizona diner in 1955. Sally, a celebrity-obsessed waitress, meets movie star Lovey Lamour, whose car has broken down while on the run from a Hollywood marriage.

St. Olaf Band
Jan. 31-Feb. 4
Multiple locations
Founded in 1891, St. Olaf College’s band, dubbed one of America’s preeminent by The New Yorker, performs compositions and transcriptions for symphonic band, producing an exciting, crowd-pleasing style. The 2025 Winter Tour brings them to Hibbing, Cloquet, Grand Rapids, Ely and Virginia.

Salty Dog
Mondays in February, 6-9 pm
Bent Paddle
Northwoods funk jam band lays it on thick with free shows every Monday for the month of February with special guests – Mara Lovejoy, 3 Ring Goose Circus, Campfire Tranarchists and Kaylee Matuszak – each night, keeping the vibes tight and the limbs loose.

The Repairmen
Thursdays, 7-9 pm
Fitger’s Barrel Room
A culmination of lo-fi rock, moody psychedelic sound and instrumentation that enmeshes itself into the soup of everyday life and creates a warm ambience. The band enjoys practicing in a wood-stove heated garage with old-school gel-covered floodlights.

Harvest Moon
Feb. 6-9
Depot Theater
Minnesota Ballet’s production features the titular piece “Harvest Moon” – no, not the Neil Young song, though that would make a pretty cool ballet, but the Tin Pan Alley standard “Shine On, Harvest Moon” as performed by the Glenn Miller Orchestra. The story follows three World War II servicemen on their last night out on the town before their deployment.