In a Garden

Ten Thousand Things is a company that specializes in bringing theatrical works to halfway houses, battered women’s shelters, and prisons–in other words, to folks who could use a little more art in their lives. The company usually performs in lunchrooms and common spaces, often under fluorescent lights and with minimal props. Still, their work has been consistently heralded by critics whoÕve ventured into, say, the state-penitentiary system to take in shows alongside the inmates. In a Garden pairs two comic operettas by Gertrude Stein with one by living legend Kevin Kling. After bringing fall-down laughter to various lockdown facilities, Ten Thousand Things is giving a less captive audience the chance to see In a Garden in a limited public run in downtown Minneapolis. 1011 Washington Ave. S., Minneapolis; 612-215-2650; www.tenthousandthings.org