Tribes by Nina Raine (at the Guthrie Theater, through November 10) fascinates most when addressing  the nature of language: what is the connection between abstract language and the gloriously messy life it represents?  And: is deaf signing a real language? …
Author: John Olive
Miss Saigon at the Ordway
Why do we go to the theater? For the acting. Actors amaze and thrill us with their uncanny ability to become something else, to overcome the pain and sorrow of their existence. To triumph, always, over the circumstances of their…
Interview: Randy Reyes
Accomplished actor/singer/director Randy Reyes has taken over, from founder Rick Shiomi, the artistic directorship of Mu Performing Arts.  Randy is busy these days – the Mu handover occurred quite recently, plus he’s in the middle of directing Mu’s latest, Kung…
Displaced Hindu Gods: A Trilogy Of Plays at Mixed Blood Theatre
Aditi Brennan Kapil‘s trilogy  Displaced Hindu Gods opens Mixed Blood Theatre‘s 2013-14 season; the plays run through Oct 27.  HowWasTheShow.com sent its three theater reviewers (Janet Preus, Dominic Orlando and John Olive) to cover the Oct 5 opening.  Each filed…
Interview: Aditi Brennan Kapil
Mixed Blood Theatre opens their season on Oct 5 with a trilogy – a trilogy! – of new plays by Aditi Brennan Kapil, Displaced Hindu Gods. DHG consists of: Brahmin/i, Shiv and The Chronicles of Kalki. Ms. Kapil is, as…
Steerage Song by Theater Latté Da, performing at the Lab Theater
What a grand adventure! To pack your belongings into a few small suitcases and then, traveling alone or perhaps with your wife and children, to say good-bye – Permanently!  Never to see them again! – to your friends and family…
Disenchanted by Casting Spells Productions at the Ritz Theater
If you’re an aficionado of (I nearly said “addicted to”) exuberant, campy and fiercely funny musical comedies then Disenchanted (at the Ritz Theater, through Oct 13) is for you. The show is niftily staged by director Mark Bergren, with the…
Good People at Park Square Theatre
One can’t help but compare David Lindsay-Abaire‘s breezy and likable Good People (at Park Square, through Oct 6) with Bruce Norris’s bleak Clybourne Park, recently produced at the Guthrie. Both plays address the unspoken elephant in the American room. …
Mercy Unrelenting by Open Window Theatre
Alessandro Serenelli is a major league creep. Rage bubbles inside him like molten lead. He grunts and groans, unable to look anyone in the eye, unable even to stand up straight. His fury confounds him – and us. As a…
Interview: Sun Mee Chomet
Sun Mee Chomet is one of Minnesota’s most accomplished actors. She has worked extensively, at the Guthrie (she played Antigone in the terrific Burial At Thebes, was featured in The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide), at Mu Performing Arts (WTF, Cowboy Vs.…