The Apple Blossom Bike Tour 2026!
2026-08-15 | Veteran’s Park
Join us for the 13th annual Apple Blossom Bike Tour August 15, 2026! Enjoy the unmatched views and vistas in the Driftless Region of Southeast Minnesota. Choose from 5 routes for all skill levels or the Free 5 mile Family Ride! Lunch and music in the park following the ride. Proceeds benefit Rotary Polio Plus and two Scholarship Funds! Visit appleblossomtour.org for more information!

The Apple Blossom Bike Tour 2026!
2026-08-15 07:00 - 15:00 (America/Chicago) | La Crescent Veterans Park, 595 Veterans Parkway, La Crescent, MN, 55947
Join us for a day of bicycling on the best routes in Southeast Minnesota! Register today for the Apple Blossom Bike Tour, Saturday, August 15, 2026! Proceeds benefit Rotary projects, The Erin Dunlap Mathews Physicians Assistant Scholarship Fund and The Living For Liz Scholarship Fund. $60 registration fee or ride the 5 mile Free Family Ride. Registrations include live music and lunch in the park following the ride! Visit appleblossomtour.org for details and registration.

La Crescent LIVE with Mr Blink!
2026-08-19 17:30 - 19:30 | La Crescent Live Park, 322 South 1st Street, La Crescent, Minnesota, 55947
La Crescent LIVE presents Mr. Blink! on Wednesday, August 19th from 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm. Enjoy this free family-friendly outdoor concert in the heart of downtown La Crescent. There will be food and beverage vendors and a variety of family games. Seating is available but feel free to bring a lawn chair or blanket.

La Crescent LIVE with Mr Blink!
2026-08-19 17:30 - 19:30 | 322 S 1st St, La Crescent
La Crescent LIVE presents Mr Blink! on Wednesday, August 19th. Enjoy this free family-friendly outdoor concert in the hear of downtown La Crescent. There will be food and beverage vendors and a variety of family games. Seating is available but feel free to bring a lawn chair or blanket.

MatchMakers Book Club: Summer Romance
2026-08-22 10:00 - 11:30 | Groovy Grounds Bistro + Coffee, 28 North Walnut Street, La Crescent, MN, 55947, United States
Like reading romance? Join the library for our summer pop-up book club featuring romance reads and craft time! Enjoy light discussion and crafts over your beverage of choice. Bring a project you’ve been working on, mending, or peruse idea books from the library and coloring pages.
ABOUT THE BOOK – Summer Romance by Annabel Monaghan
Benefits of a summer romance: it’s always fun, always brief, and no one gets their heart broken.
There aren’t enough labeled glass containers to contain the mess that is Ali Morris’s life. Her mom died two years ago, then her husband left, and she hasn’t worn pants with a zipper in longer than she cares to remember. She’s a professional organizer whose pantry is a disgrace.
No one is more surprised than Ali when the first time she takes off her wedding ring and puts on pants with hardware—overalls count, right?—she meets someone. Or rather, her dog claims a man for her in the same way he claimed his favorite of her three children: by peeing on him. Ethan smiles at Ali like her pants are just right—like he likes what he sees. The last thing Ali needs is to make her life messier, but there’s no harm in a little Summer Romance. Is there?

La Crescent LIVE presents Chasing Denver!
2026-08-22 16:30 - 19:30 | 322 S 1st St, La Crescent
La Crescent LIVE presents Chasing Denver on Saturday, August 22nd from 4:30 pm to 7:30 pm at La Crescent LIVE park in the heart of downtown La Crescent. Chasing Denver is a dynamic husband-and-wife country music duo. Based out of Southwest Florida, they are known for their captivating acoustic sound and romantic original love songs. Chasing Denver brings a fresh, intimate energy to the modern country scene!

La Crescent LIVE presents MadLee Band!
2026-09-12 12:30 - 15:30 | Abnet Field in La Crescent, MN (Spruce/11th Street), Spruce/11th Streeet, La Crescent, MN, 55947, United States
La Crescent LIVE presents MadLee Band on Saturday, September 12th from 12:30 pm to 3:30 pm at Abnet Field in La Crescent. This concert is presented in conjunction with the USA Cycling Gravel Championships which are being held in La Crescent that week-end. Food and beverages will be available for purchase. There is limited seating so feel free to bring a lawn chair or blanket.

Eelpout - preview
2026-09-12 19:30 - 22:00 | Commonweal Theatre Company, 208 Parkway Ave N, Lanesboro, MN, 55949, United States
Come heck or high water, it’s time for a bachelor party! Best buds Sven and Ole gather at their pal Lars’s ice-fishing shack on Lake Mille Lacs to celebrate Ole’s upcoming marriage to Lena. But this ice-fishing bromance starts to crack when Sven admits he no longer wants to be Ole’s best man (Ope!). Deep truths, deeper questions, and a giant talking eelpout emerge from the frigid surroundings. La Crosse, WI native Paul Kruse presents a surreal comedy that is a boisterous and beautiful ode to Midwestern masculinity, friendship, queerness, and being a fish out of water.

Eelpout
2026-09-19 19:30 - 22:00 | Commonweal Theatre Company, 208 Parkway Ave N, Lanesboro, MN, 55949, United States

The Welkin
2026-10-16 19:30 - 21:30 | Toland Theatre, Lowe Center for the Arts, 333 North 16th Street, La Crosse, WI, 54601, United States
Lucy Kirkwood’s The Welkin is a sweeping, provocative drama that plunges audiences into an isolated 18th century English village where justice, morality, and womanhood collide. Set in 1759 rural England, a young woman, Sally Poppy, is convicted of murder and claims she is pregnant to escape execution. A jury of local women is assembled to decide whether she truly carries new life or faces the gallows. What unfolds is a gripping examination of power, privilege, and the silenced voices of women, as each juror’s own history, hardship, and belief shapes the verdict. By turns tense, surprising, and darkly witty, The Welkin asks urgent questions about who gets to decide truth, whose lives are valued, and how personal experience becomes political. The Welkin asks: What does justice look like when women are finally allowed to speak? And who gets to decide the truth when belief itself becomes a battlefield?
Contains Mature Content.
Performance Dates
October 16-17 & 23-24 at 7:30 p.m.
October 18 & 25 at 2:00 p.m.
Toland Theatre, Lowe Center for the Arts
Assigned Seating.
ONLINE TICKETS: $20 adults; $18 senior citizens/non UWL students/military; $8 UWL students. Online tickets will have a small credit card processing fee added at checkout. Patrons are encouraged to buy their tickets online and download the tickets to their phone/email. Tickets may be purchased online at www.uwlax.edu/theatre-and-dance beginning October 1, 2026.
IN PERSON/PHONE TICKETS: $22 for adults, $20 for senior/non UWL students/military and $10 for UWL students (processing/printing fee already included in the price). Tickets are available for purchase in person at the box office in the Lowe Center for the Arts or by calling 608.785.6696. Box office hours are Monday through Friday 1:00-3:00 p.m. and one hour prior to each performance during the run of the show (October 12-25).

Gruesome Playground Injuries
2026-11-05 19:30 - 21:30 | Frederick Theatre (UWL Morris Hall), 1615 State Street, La Crosse, WI, 54601, United States
Gruesome Playground Injuries is a raw, darkly funny, and deeply affecting exploration of love, pain, and the marks we carry from childhood into adulthood. Tracking the lives of Kayleen and Doug through a series of out of order vignettes, the play reveals their complicated bond through moments of physical injury and emotional vulnerability—skinned knees, broken bones, broken hearts. As they reconnect again and again over three decades, their relationship becomes a haunting portrait of intimacy, dependency, and the ways we both hurt and heal one another. Tender, unsettling, and unexpectedly funny, Gruesome Playground Injuries is a powerful portrait of two people bound by timing, trauma, and the complicated ways we learn to love.
Performance Dates
November 5-7 at 7:30 p.m.
November 8 at 2:00 p.m.
Frederick Theatre, Morris Hall
General Admission.
ONLINE TICKETS: $20 adults; $18 senior citizens/non UWL students/military; $8 UWL students. Online tickets will have a small credit card processing fee added at checkout. Patrons are encouraged to buy their tickets online and download the tickets to their phone/email. Tickets may be purchased online at www.uwlax.edu/theatre-and-dance beginning October 1, 2026.
IN PERSON/PHONE TICKETS: $22 for adults, $20 for senior/non UWL students/military and $10 for UWL students (processing/printing fee already included in the price). Tickets are available for purchase in person at the box office in the Lowe Center for the Arts or by calling 608.785.6696. Box office hours are Monday through Friday 1:00-3:00 p.m. and one hour prior to each performance during the run of the show (November 2-8).

The Wickhams: Christmas at Pemberley - preview
2026-11-07 19:30 - 22:00 | Commonweal Theatre Company, 208 Parkway Ave N, Lanesboro, MN, 55949, United States
Welcome (back) to Pemberley! Upstairs at the grand estate of Elizabeth and Fitzwilliam Darcy, Christmas festivities are in full swing. While downstairs, beneath the yuletide buzz, the servants bustle about. Their holiday rhythm is shattered when Lydia’s wayward husband, the rogue Mr.Wickham, stumbles in—uninvited, drunk, and dangerous. Secrets spill, loyalties are tested, and upstairs and downstairs collide in this witty companion to Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley. Gunderson and Melcon deliver another heartwarming tale of class, chaos, and the generosity of forgiveness.

The Wickhams: Christmas at Pemberley
2026-11-14 19:30 - 22:00 | Commonweal Theatre Company, 208 Parkway Ave N, Lanesboro, MN, 55949, United States

A Christmas Carol
2026-12-04 19:30 - 21:00 | Toland Theatre, Lowe Center for the Arts, 333 North 16th Street, La Crosse, WI, 54601, United States
John Mortimer’s sparkling adaptation of A Christmas Carol brings fresh wit, theatrical flair, and deep-hearted warmth to Dickens’s beloved holiday classic. The story follows the cold hearted miser Ebenezer Scrooge, whose cheerless Christmas Eve is interrupted by the ghost of his long dead partner, Jacob Marley, and three haunting visitors who reveal the past that shaped him, the present he is poisoning, and the grim future that awaits if he refuses to change. As Scrooge is led through bustling streets, humble homes, and haunting visions, the enduring images of Tiny Tim, the Cratchit family, and the joy of human kindness come vividly to life. Mortimer’s version revels in theatrical storytelling—swiftly shifting scenes, lively narration, and moments of humor that sit beautifully alongside genuine pathos—honoring the timeless message of redemption while keeping the tale fast moving, playful, and deeply moving. At once festive and poignant, this A Christmas Carol celebrates generosity, compassion, and the miraculous possibility of change, making it a perfect holiday experience for audiences of all ages.
Performance Dates
December 4-5 & 10-12 at 7:30 p.m.
December 6 & 13 at 2:00 p.m.
Toland Theatre, Lowe Center for the Arts
Assigned Seating.
ONLINE TICKETS: $22 adults; $20 senior citizens/non UWL students; $8 UWL students. Online tickets will have a small credit card processing fee added at checkout. Patrons are encouraged to buy their tickets online and download the tickets to their phone/email. Tickets may be purchased online at www.uwlax.edu/theatre-and-dance beginning October 1, 2026.
IN PERSON/PHONE TICKETS: $24 for adults, $22 for senior/non UWL students/military and $10 for UWL students (processing/printing fee already included in the price). Tickets are available for purchase in person at the box office in the Lowe Center for the Arts or by calling 608.785.6696. Box office hours are Monday through Friday 1:00-3:00 p.m. and one hour prior to each performance during the run of the show (November 30-December 13).

Art in Motion: A Concert of Dance
2027-02-25 19:30 - 21:00 | Toland Theatre, Lowe Center for the Arts, 333 North 16th Street, La Crosse, WI, 54601, United States
Experience the energy, artistry, and imagination of Art in Motion: A Concert of Dance. This vibrant performance showcases original works choreographed and performed by UWL students, celebrating the breadth of movement styles—from the athletic expressiveness of modern dance to the rhythmic precision of tap, the dynamic flair of jazz, and the classical elegance of ballet. Each piece offers a unique perspective, blending technical skill with personal storytelling and bold creative choices. Art in Motion is both a celebration of emerging artists and a testament to the power of dance as a living, breathing art form. Engaging, inspiring, and endlessly varied, this concert promises an exhilarating night of movement that will captivate both longtime dance enthusiasts and first-time audiences alike.
Performance Dates
February 25-27 at 7:30 p.m.
February 28 at 2:00 p.m.
Toland Theatre, Lowe Center for the Arts
General Admission
ONLINE TICKETS: $20 adults; $18 senior citizens/non UWL students/military; $8 UWL students. Online tickets will have a small credit card processing fee added at checkout. Patrons are encouraged to buy their tickets online and download the tickets to their phone/email. Tickets may be purchased online at www.uwlax.edu/theatre-and-dance beginning October 1, 2026.
IN PERSON/PHONE TICKETS: $22 for adults, $20 for senior/non UWL students/military and $10 for UWL students (processing/printing fee already included in the price). Tickets are available for purchase in person at the box office in the Lowe Center for the Arts or by calling 608.785.6696. Box office hours are Monday through Friday 1:00-3:00 p.m. and one hour prior to each performance during the run of the show (February 22-28).

Flora and Ulysses
2027-04-03 11:00 - 12:00 | Frederick Theatre (UWL Morris Hall), 1615 State Street, La Crosse, WI, 54601, United States
John Glore’s delightful stage adaptation of Flora & Ulysses springs to life with humor, heart, and just the right touch of superhero magic. Based on Kate DiCamillo’s beloved novel, the story follows comic book loving Flora Buckman, whose quiet afternoon is turned upside down when a vacuum cleaner accident transforms a neighborhood squirrel into Ulysses—a poetry writing, nut loving superhero with remarkable powers. Together, Flora and her unlikely friend embark on an adventure filled with comic mishaps, eccentric adults, and surprising acts of bravery, all while discovering what it truly means to believe. Joyful and imaginative, the play gently explores themes of hope, empathy, and the courage to open one’s heart. With its playful tone, whimsical characters, and uplifting message about friendship and self confidence, Flora & Ulysses is a perfect theatrical experience for families and young audiences—a charming reminder that even the smallest heroes can change the world.
Performance Dates
April 3 at 11:00 a.m., 1:00 p.m. & 3:00 p.m.
April 4 at 1:00 p.m. & 3:00 p.m.
Frederick Theatre, Morris Hall
General Admission Seating.
ONLINE TICKETS: $10 adults/senior citizens/non UWL students; $8 UWL students/children. Online tickets will have a small credit card processing fee added at checkout. Patrons are encouraged to buy their tickets online and download the tickets to their phone/email. Tickets may be purchased online at www.uwlax.edu/theatre-and-dance beginning October 1, 2026.
IN PERSON/PHONE TICKETS: $12 adults/senior/non UWL students and $10 for UWL students/children (processing/printing fee already included in the price). Tickets are available for purchase in person at the box office in the Lowe Center for the Arts or by calling 608.785.6696. Box office hours are Monday through Friday 1:00-3:00 p.m. and one hour prior to each performance during the run of the show (March 29-April 4).

Anastasia: The Musical
2027-04-23 19:30 - 21:30 | Toland Theatre, Lowe Center for the Arts, 333 North 16th Street, La Crosse, WI, 54601, United States
Anastasia: The Musical is a breathtaking journey of romance, adventure, and self discovery set against the twilight of the Russian Empire and the glittering promise of Paris. The musical follows Anya, a brave young woman searching for her past and for a place where she truly belongs. As she sets out to uncover the truth of her identity, she encounters danger, humor, and unexpected love and discovers a destiny greater than she ever imagined. Anastasia’s soaring melodies, dazzling choreography, and lush staging makes for an unforgettable theatrical experience for audiences of all ages. Propelled by a message of courage, hope, and chosen family, Anastasia invites you to believe in the power of love and the magic of finding home.
Performance Dates
April 23-24 & 29-May 1 at 7:30 p.m.
April 25 & May 2 at 2:00 p.m.
Toland Theatre, Lowe Center for the Arts
Assigned Seating.
ONLINE TICKETS: $22 adults; $20 senior citizens/non UWL students; $8 UWL students. Online tickets will have a small credit card processing fee added at checkout. Patrons are encouraged to buy their tickets online and download the tickets to their phone/email. Tickets may be purchased online at www.uwlax.edu/theatre-and-dance beginning October 1, 2026.
IN PERSON/PHONE TICKETS: $24 for adults, $22 for senior/non UWL students/military and $10 for UWL students (processing/printing fee already included in the price). Tickets are available for purchase in person at the box office in the Lowe Center for the Arts or by calling 608.785.6696. Box office hours are Monday through Friday 1:00-3:00 p.m. and one hour prior to each performance during the run of the show (April 19-May 2).
