Below are some links to equipment and expendables suppliers that may be of interest to you and your theatre. They are grouped into the following categories: (Click on a category to jump to it)
Audio Equipment (Manufacturers)
Audio Equipment (Suppliers)
Backdrops
Costumes
Flooring, Seating, Stage Equipment
Lighting & Electrical Equipment Manufacturers
Lighting & Electrical Equipment Suppliers – Minnesota
Lighting & Electrical Equipment Suppliers – National
Makeup, Hats & Wigs
Music
Public Domain
Rigging/Truss/Lifting
Ticketing
Training/Seminars/Workshops
Audio Equipment (Manufacturers):
Allen & Heath
Audio-Technica
Behringer
Bose
Clear-Com Communications
Countryman Associates
Crest Audio (now Peavey Commercial Audio)
Crown International
dbx Professional
Dynacord (Bosch)
Electro-Voice (Bosch)
GTD Audio
JBL Professional
Klark Teknik
Listen Technologies
Mackie
Meyer Sound
Nady
Peavey Commercial Audio
QSC Audio
Roland Systems Group
Sennheiser
Shure
Telex (Bosch) Communications
Tonor Mics
Williams Sound
Yamaha Commercial Audio
Audio Equipment (Suppliers):
AV for You (Crystal)
Dynacord (Burnsville)
EMI Audio (Robbinsdale)
Gopher Stage Lighting (gsl) (St Paul)
Heartland Scenic Studios (Omaha)
Heroic Productions (Bloomington)
Metro Sound and Lighting (St Paul)
Monkey Wrench Productions (Golden Valley)
Norcostco (Golden Valley)
Northern Light FX (Bemidji)
Backdrops:
Backdrops Beautiful
Backdrops Fantastic
Big Image Systems
Charles H Stewart
Cobalt Studios
Grosh Scenic Rentals
Kenmark Scenic Backdrop
Theatre Scenes
TheatreWorld Backdrops
Costumes:
Costumes Plus (Maplewood)
Norcostco (Golden Valley)
Satin Stitches (Minneapolis)
Theatre House (KY)
The Costume Collective (Minneapolis)
The Costume Shopppe (Maple Lake)
Twin Cities Magic and Costume (West St Paul)
Flooring, Seating, Stage Equipment:
Quikstage (Blaine)
Norcostco (Golden Valley)
Sightline Commercial solutions (formerly Staging Concepts) (Brooklyn Park)
Wenger Corp (Owatonna)
Lighting & Electrical Equipment Manufacturers:
Acclaim Lighting
Altman Stage Lighting
American DJ
ARRI
Blizzard Lighting
Chauvet Lighting
Chroma-Q
CITC FX
City Theatrical
Clay Paky
Clear-Com
Coemar
Color Kinetics
De Sisti
Dove Systems
Doug Fleenor Design
Elation Professional
ElektraLite
ETC (Electronic Theatre Controls)
High End Systems
Jands
Leprecon
Lex Products
Lightronics
Littlite
Lycian Stage Lighting
Ma Lighting
Martin
MDG
Mole Richardson
OmniSistem
Pathway
Reel EFX
Robert Juliat
Rosco
Teatronics
Techni-Lux
Telex RTS
Times Square Lighting
Vari*Lite
Zero 88
Lighting & Electrical Equipment Suppliers (Minnesota):
AV for You (Crystal)
Gopher Stage Lighting (gsl) (St Paul)
Heroic Productions (Bloomington)
Metro Sound and Lighting (St Paul)
Monkey Wrench Productions (Golden Valley)
Norcostco (Golden Valley)
Northern Light FX (Bemidji)
Lighting & Electrical Equipment Suppliers (National):
Apollo Gobos
BMI Supply
Heartland Scenic Studios (Omaha)
Northern Sound & Light
Production Advantage
Rosco
Solotech (formerly Stage Equipment & Lighting, Inc.)
UsedLighting.com
Makeup, Hats & Wigs:
Ben Nye
Heartland Scenic Studios (Omaha)
Mehron
Norcostco (Golden Valley)
Garland Wigs
Wig USA
Music:
ASCAP (American Seciety of Composers, Authors and Publishers) (Discounted license available to AACT members)
BMI (Broadcast Music, Inc.)
Broadway Trax
Concord Theatricals
Keye Studios
London Arrangements
Musical Midi (defunct?)
Pump Room
Right On Cue Services
StagePlays (defunct?)
Theatre Music Shop
Public Domain:
Community Theatre Plays
Drama Notebook
Free Drama
Free Shakespeare Plays
Ohio Wesleyan University
One-Act Plays
PD Info
Project Gutenberg
Rigging/Truss/Lifting:
Applied Electronics
Automatic Devices Company
CM – Columbus McKinnon
Global Truss
Hall Stage
Heartland Scenic Studios (Omaha)
James Thomas Engineering
JR Clancy (now part of Wenger) (Owatonna)
Light Source
OmniSistem
QuikStage (Blaine)
Stage Right
Sightline Commercial Solutions (formerly Staging Concepts) (Brooklyn Park)
Thurn (Winona)
Tomcat
Trusst (Now part of Chauvet)
Ultimate
Ticketing:
Audience View (formerly Vendini)
Brown Paper Tickets
Cur8 (rormerly ShowTix4U)
On The Stage
Tickets To The City (MACT’s ticketing service – special member offer)
Ticket Leap
Ticketor
Training/Seminars/Workshops:
Offbook Line learning for modern actors
The Fake Fighting Company (St. Paul)
Last Updated: 10/26/2026