Category: Reviews

The Magic Flute by Minnesota Opera Company, performing at the Ordway

The Magic Flute, one of Mozart’s most successful and recognizable operas, is equal parts genius and insane. Its plot is a convoluted fever dream filled with changing allegiances, romantic schmaltz, and an abundance of strange mythology. One cannot help but…

The Night Alive at the Jungle Theater

What a rich and wonderful theater experience! The Jungle Theater’s new production, “The Night Alive” by Conor McPherson, will run through December 20, and what an alternative it is to the usual holiday lineup. It will pull you in even…

An Octoroon at Mixed Blood Theatre

Dion Boucicault was a 19th century melodramatist, the fellow who gave us such ne’er-produced masterworks as The School For Scheming and The Vampire. His overwrought potboiler The Octoroon mines the same thin vein of theatrical ore, a play in which…

Murder for Two at Park Square Theatre’s Andy Boss Thrust Stage

Park Square has opened a must-be-seen-as-live-theater kind of show, packed with laughs, silly surprises and feats of performance daring-do. “Murder for Two” is the perfect small show for the theater’s new, intimate Andy Boss Stage. You’ve heard of a triple…