Dating back to 1910, The Southern Theater is one of the Twin Cities’ historic gems and is available for a variety of event rentals. The Southern’s classic space has all of the charm and authenticity that only a vintage theater can offer.

With a large staging area, The Southern is a flexible space perfect for corporate events, weddings, lectures, concerts, photo shoots, and more. Its brick walls and intricate molding, still in their original form, give every event a unique feel and look beautiful on camera. Equipped with professional-grade lighting and sound equipment, the theater is capable of setting a wide range of moods, and the space’s acoustics are ideal for music. And, most importantly, there’s a disco ball.

For inquiries please email info@southerntheater.org.

Rental Info

The Southern is open for rentals. With a large staging area, The Southern is a flexible space perfect for theater, dance, music and multi-disciplinary performances as well as corporate events, weddings, film, lectures, photo shoots, and more. Its brick walls and intricate molding, still in their original form, give every event a unique feel and look beautiful on camera. Equipped with professional-grade lighting and sound equipment, the theater is capable of setting a wide range of moods, and the space’s acoustics are ideal for music. For rental inquiries and bookings email info@southerntheater.org

The Southern Theater Features:

• Our stage is roughly 42' deep by 43' wide, bisected by a 3' deep proscenium arch that is 15' from the upstage wall
• The stage is a rosco sprung floor painted black
• House Capacity:
  Permanent Seating only: 166
  Extra seating added to back row of Permanent Seating: 184
  Extra seating added to floor as well as back row of Permanent Seating: 206 (Maximum Capacity)
• Lighting: ETC Express 48/96 console
• Access to a projector Optoma EH415 1080p projector rated at 4200 lumens
• Bar service (single packaged snacks, beer, wine, & champagne) 
• ADA accessible

For additional information please email info@southerntheater.org

The Southern Theater Partnership Program

As a presenting theater, we use The Southern Theater Partnership Program (SPP) as our program model. SPP is a competitive program that gives artists and nonprofits the opportunity to present at The Southern Theater. See a list of our current Partners here.