Commonweal Theatre Company

The first season of the company was eleven weeks long and employed ten artists who presented Crimes of the Heart and A Midsummer Night's Dream.

[2] In 1991, the company launched its student matinee program, and in 1992 began its high school conservatory program, a two-week, intensive immersion in theatre training for area high school students.

The exterior façade, created by Minnesota artist Karl Unnasch, recreates three Lanesboro shop fronts.

The interior design focuses on the natural beauty and history of the region with barn doors acting as bathroom stalls, stone walls mirroring the surrounding bluffs, concrete floors reflecting the building's prior life as a cheese factory, and seats reclaimed from the original Guthrie Theater.

I Ought to be in Pictures by Neil Simon Born Yesterday by Garson Kanin One Man, Two Guvnors by Richard Bean Doubt by John Patrick Shanley A Christmas Carol by Commonweal Theatre Company; based on the novella by Charles Dickens