06-04-2025
Creepy, surreal podcast plans live performance at Fitzgerald Theater
The wonderfully weird podcast, "Welcome to Night Vale," is bringing its mysterious desert town to the Twin Cities.
The podcast will ride into town — most likely on its ominous Glow Cloud — for a live show on July 21 at The Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul.
"Night Vale" is a fictional podcast where Cecil, the narrator, gives reports on the desert city that, like Springfield on the Simpsons, is never officially given a location but resembles a town in the Mojave Desert. Unlike Springfield, it's a deeply supernatural place where there's a mysterious city under the city, a glowing cloud, residents like the Faceless Old Woman, and all kinds of mysterious happenings that often defy the rules of reality.
For fans, "Welcome to Night Vale" is its own universe with a growing and absurd mythology. In each surreal episode, nothing quite makes sense, and yet, everything makes sense through its own twisted internal logic, whether it's an invasion that no one has seen or chippy reports about its rival city, Desert Bluffs, which is governed by the shady StrexCorp.
The podcast, which first launched in 2012, will roll into town for a show called "Welcome to Night Vale: Murder Night in Blood Forest." Tickets are on sale now.
