Despite being a lifelong music geek, I wasn’t familiar with the Dutch band NITS until this past year. It’s not like the band has been hiding under a rock for the fifty years of their existence, and I’m not ignorant…
Rickie Lee Jones at Tavastia Club, Helsinki (August 28th, 2024)
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band at Olympic Stadium, Helsinki (July 12th, 2024)
Nick Cave at Musiikkitalo, Helsinki (June 25th, 2024)
Review | Driving the dream: Just keep those “Hands on a Hardbody”
The Crisis: HWTS responds
We can’t review plays when there are no plays to be reviewed. Therefore, until Gov. Walz decides to “re-open” live theaters, we will, unfortunately, be on hiatus. There is, however, movement in the theater world: the estimable Sarah Rasmussen, artistic…
Review | Thunder Knocking On The Door: can theater be more enjoyable?
Review | Interstate: love and music on the open road
Interstate (Mixed Blood Theatre, through March 29) contains a standout performance: Sushma Saha as the young woman chafing in a small (and very conservative) American town, struggling to become Henry, to “man up,” to become who she really is. Saha…
Review | The White Card: guess who’s coming to dinner 2020
In The White Card, at Penumbra Theatre things don’t go awry in the way you might expect. Playwright Claudia Rankin dives head first into the American race relations. The play starts with Charles and his wife, Virginia (both white) who…
Review | The Ugly One: an actual German comedy
All well and good, the Guthrie’s glitzy production of Guys And Dolls; and it’s good that they’ve scheduled (rescheduled actually) Shakespeare’s masterful history cycle; and it’s wonderful that in Three Little Birds CTC put together a show based on music…
Review || Blue Man Group: Slapstick for the digital age
Do you feel the need for some silliness? Just letting go and laughing? You’re not alone. Millions of people worldwide have felt the same way—since 1987! Now, that’s what I call a run! The Blue Man Group (“Still Blue, the…
Review | The Bridges Of Madison County: cornfed passion
Fad-lit. In the 90s every woman (and many men) read Robert James Waller‘s novel The Bridges Of Madison County (nowadays the title is 50 Shades Of Gray). The book was hugely popular. And why not? The story, of two late-middle…