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Featured Story: Macbeth

By: John Olive

Michelle O'Neill (Lady Macbeth) and Erik Heger (Macbeth) start in Shakespeare's MACBETH.  Photo by Michal Daniel. As my companion pointed out, one of the enduring pleasures of Macbeth (on the Guthrie's Wurtele Stage, through April 3, guthrietheater.org) is that it's so much fun. A tragedy to be sure, and stern academicians will parse the deep meaning of the blood imagery, the rich broken iambic of the language, the complex clashing ambitions of the principals. All valid, but let's not forget that Shakespeare was, essentially, devising an entertainment. The play features gore-fouled daggers, exuberant sword-fights, the weïrd (the umla...

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Photo of the Week for February, 7, 2010

Sometimes the choice for HowWasTheShow photo of the week take is obvious to me even as the subject of said photo is taking place before my eyes. Saturday night, Phil Solem (The Rembrandts, Thrush) played a headlining show at Sauce Minneapolis in Uptown. Solem’s powerful set - executed with a crack backing band that included Melismatics Ryan Smith and Ron Caron - featured both rockers and an amazing ballad that leaves me waiting with bated breath for a new album from Solem, which photos on his Facebook page lead me to believe he may be recording.     After leaving the stage, Solem came back for an encore of what is unquestionably his most famous song, “I’ll Be There for You” (aka the theme from Friends) t...

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Photo by: Mike Minehart