MINNEAPOLIS (Oct. 9, 2024) — Hennepin Arts has announced that television personality, author, and famed foodist Alton Brown announced his final national theater tour that will visit more than 60 U.S. cities in 2025. Alton Brown Live: Last Bite will launch February 13, 2025 in Melbourne, Florida before making its way to cities across the country including Brown’s hometown Atlanta, Los Angeles, Chicago and Minneaolis before a final performance May 11 in Austin, Texas. Minneapolis fans will get their chance to see Alton Brown when he visits the historic Orpheum Theatre (910 Hennepin Ave.) on Sunday, April 27, 2025 at 7 p.m. for one show only.
Tickets go on sale Friday, Oct. 11 at 10 a.m. to the general public at the State Theatre Box Office (805 Hennepin Ave., Minneapolis) and online at HennepinArts.org.
| DAY | DATE | TIME | VENUE | TICKET PRICES |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Sunday | April 27 | 7 p.m. | Orpheum Theatre | $50.50-205 |
Brown, who has more than eight million social media followers, has created some of the most popular and successful live, interactive culinary variety shows ever. His “Edible Inevitable,” “Eat Your Science,” and “Beyond the Eats” tours performed in more than 200 cities with more than 550,000 fans in attendance. Now, Brown has cooked up a buffet of new surprises for this new tour show, which Brown has declared will be his last.
“Last Bite will be my farewell tour and my last culinary variety show, as it’s time for me to make my full-time return to male modeling,” says Brown.
Brown’s tenth book, a collection of essays and ruminations, Food for Thought, will be published by Gallery Books in February 2025, just in time for the tour launch. Before performing to sell-out crowds around the country, Brown started his career directing TV commercials when he got the crazy idea to go to culinary school and reinvent the cooking show. The result was “Good Eats,” an irreverent, science-forward program with Brown as its star; 256 episodes aired across 16 seasons. He also hosted the iconic programs “Iron Chef America,” “Food Network Star,” and “Cutthroat Kitchen.” Among his various mantle candy are a pair of James Beard awards and a Peabody. He lives in Atlanta with his wife, the designer Elizabeth Ingram, and a trio of nefarious canines.
Those with an appetite for more information about “Alton Brown Live: Last Bite” can visit www.altonbrownlive.com and follow Alton Brown on Facebook, Instagram, and X; #AltonBrownLive.
Hennepin Arts drives cultural and economic vitality in Minnesota through leadership of the dynamic Hennepin Theatre District in downtown Minneapolis and educational programming that reaches every area of the state. Its historic theatres — Orpheum, State and Pantages — and the Dudley Riggs Theatre light up Hennepin Avenue with top-tier entertainment, including the best of Broadway and a wide variety of arts programming. Hennepin Arts is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization. Learn more at HennepinArts.org.
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This activity is made possible by voters of Minnesota through a Minnesota State Arts Board Operating Support grant, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.