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The Southern Theater is located in the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota. Built in 1910 as a cultural center and legitimate theater for the burgeoning Scandinavian community centered on Cedar Avenue, the Southern has been re-established as a center for contemporary performing arts over the past quarter-century. The Southern Theater is the home of Balls Cabaret, a weekly midnight cabaret entering its twenty-fourth year.
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The theater company has been around since the 1950s and at its current location since 1969. The stage is set up in the middle of the theater with seating surrounding it.
Diverse theater company in operation since the 1970s. The theater is in a former fire station, and in a somewhat hard-to-find location with Interstate 35W and the Washington Avenue trench cutting off direct access from the north and west.
A mansion built for Swan and Christina Turnblad; Swan owned one of the largest Swedish language newspapers in the United States. In 1929 the house became a museum dedicated to Swedish-American history and culture.