In case you missed its first go-round, or you just can’t get enough of R&B love, the locally conceived and realized “Always & Forever†returns in all its boomer-era wonderfulness to the Illusion Theater. Set in a barber shop (it…
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Department of Redundancy Department, a Recovery Party production at the Bryant-Lake Bowl
The Department of Redundancy Department (presented at the Bryant Lake Bowl by The Recovery Party through June 26th) strikes again with a new show workshopped and performed by a solid cast of local theater regulars. It’s class A sketch comedy…
The House Can’t Stand at the Rarig Center
Theater de la Jeune Lune lives on in an original show written and performed by Steve Epp and directed by Dominique Serrand, presented May 17, 2010 at the Rarig Center on the University of Minnesota campus. In case you missed…
Wormwood, a Hardcover Theater production at Bryant Lake Bowl
Wormwood, which opened May 6, continues Hardcover Theater’s “less is more†approach to reducing potentially unwieldy stories to perfectly manageable ones, even on the Bryant-Lake Bowl’s tiny stage. The theater company has carved out a singular niche in this town,…
South Pacific at Ordway Center for the Performing Arts
By Janet Preus The Lincoln Center Theater’s touring production of South Pacific, now running at the Ordway in St. Paul, offers a slightly edgier take on the war-in-paradise story. Certainly one of the best shows ever written in this genre,…
Mulan at The Children’s Theatre Company
The Children’s Theatre Company (CTC) opened a strikingly handsome staging of the now classic Disney film, Mulan, to a full house of adoring fans – some even dressed as the title character. According to director, David Mann, the script sent…
M. Butterfly at The Guthrie Theater
The Guthrie opened David Henry Hwang’s most acclaimed play, M. Butterfly, to a packed house that gave every indication of having left their own worlds behind to contemplate this inscrutable and fantastic story. The story is launched from both a…
The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity at Mixed Blood Theatre
Mixed Blood may just have the most eclectic tastes of any theater I’ve reviewed in the Twin Cities, finding little gems that beautifully reflect their larger mission, while providing us with fine entertainment. With The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity…
Spring of Freedom, Summer of Fear at Lowry Lab Theatre
Table Salt Productions premiered the third new work in its first season, offering a personal look at a moment in the revolution which transformed Iran’s political picture in the early 1980’s. This was writer Ali Ravi’s first foray into dramatizing…
The Vaudevillian, Spirit of the American Dream at Southern Theater
Attending an event at the Southern Theater feels like taking a step back in time. Layers of remodeling and redecorating, one imagines – along with its history – have been stripped down to the bare and imperfect brick walls and…