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WHAT STORIES DO YOU KEEP WITH YOU?

In this world premiere with Stages Theatre Company, we ask a very important question: Would you make a deal with a magical tiger? Lily must find a way to save her dying grandmother, but her only chance is by finding something that was secreted away decades ago. Based on Tae Keller’s No. 1 New York Times best-selling, Newbery Medal-winning novel, When You Trap a Tiger looks at the healing power of stories.

As part of the collaboration led by Stages Theatre Company, Mu 2024/25 season subscribers will have access to a special ticket discount code. Interested? Subscribe now.

GENERAL INFORMATION

DATES

Mar 14-30, 2025, at Stages Theatre Company in Hopkins.

The performance lasts approximately 60 minutes.

Special/accessible performances:

• pay what you can on Mar 16 at 4 pm

• sensory friendly performance on Mar 22 at 10 am

PRICE

Tickets range from $16 to $18, not including free lap passes for children 2 years and under. Mu 2024/25 season subscribers will have access to a special discount code. Discounts are available for groups of 10 or more. As ticketing for When You Trap a Tiger is through Stages Theatre Company, please contact its box office at (952) 979-1111, option 4, or at info@stagestheatre.com with any questions.

VENUE INFO

When You Trap a Tiger will take place at Stages Theatre Company, located at 1111 Mainstreet, Hopkins, MN 55343. There is a free public parking ramp on 11th Avenue just south of Mainstreet. Parking for those with mobility limitations is available at the rear of the Hopkins Center for the Arts (subject to availability) and on the street level of the public parking ramp.

MEET THE AUTHOR

TAE KELLER (she/her) is the Newbery award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of When You Trap a Tiger and The Science of Breakable Things. She grew up in Honolulu, HI, where she subsisted on kimchi, purple rice, and stories. Now, she writes about biracial girls trying to find their voices, and lives in Seattle with her husband and a multitude of books.

MEET THE PLAYWRIGHT

KATIE HAE LEO (she/her) is thrilled to adapt Tae Keller’s beautiful novel for two of her artistic homes, Theater Mu and Stages Theatre Company, and to work with this wonderful creative team. As a playwright, her previous works include Four Destinies; adaptations of Baseball Saved Us and A Single Shard; and N/A, which was part of The Origins Project; as well as The New Kid audio story for Mu’s You Shall Hear Me series. She holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Minnesota. Katie is currently based in Savannah, GA, and works for the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), a consumer advocacy watchdog working on food and nutrition policy, public health, and food equity based in Washington, DC. | katiehaeleo.com

MEET THE DIRECTOR

EMMA Y. LAI (she/her) is a Taiwanese new works director, writer, and producer. Emma has worked with Mu as its directing fellow on Hells Canyon and was a part of its emerging playwrights’ circle. Favorite directing/assisting credits include the world premieres of devoured: notes on love and enmeshment by Liqing Xu (Southern Theater/Playwrights’ Center), The Garden by Hannah Bakke (Childrens’ Theatre Company T.A.T.), Your Own Personal Exegesis by Julia May Jonas (dir. Annie Tippe/LCT3 at Lincoln Center), An American Tail by Itamar Moses, Michael Mahler, and Alan Schmuckler (dir. Taibi Magar/Childrens’ Theatre Company), and COWBOY BOB by Molly Beach Murphy, Jeanna Phillips, and Annie Tippe (dir. Annie Tippe/Alley Theatre). | emmaylai.com

IN COLLABORATION

When You Trap a Tiger is brought to you by a collaboration led by Stages Theatre Company with Theater Mu.

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