Brave New Workshop unveils downtown space
City Pages, November 9 article by Ed Huyck...
Late last Friday afternoon, John Sweeney was in a conference room at
Brave New Workshop's 824 Hennepin Avenue location. He was doing a final few tasks before putting on his tux for the marquee lighting and opening night of the company's new downtown home. It's easy to forgive him if he seemed a bit nervous.
After all, in the next hour or so several years of work would come to a culmination as the longstanding comedy troupe, which has roots that go back to the late 1950s, moved from its longstanding home in Uptown to 20 blocks up Hennepin in the heart of the downtown theater district, inside the triangle of the State, Orpheum, and Pantages...