Category: Reviews

Baby Case at the History Theatre

It was a dark and stormy night – quite literally – when I saw the History Theatre’s production of “Baby Case,” a dark and stormy musical retelling of the “trial of the century,” as it was dubbed. The kidnapping and…

Tribes at the Guthrie Theater

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? …

Nature Theatre Of Oklahoma, At The Walker Art Center

Alternately exhilarating and tedious, Nature Theatre of Oklahoma’s “Life and Times:  Episode One” is, without a doubt, a one-of-a-kind experience. “Life and Times” is a sung-thru music-theatre piece, using as its libretto 16 hours of recorded audio—company member Kristin Worrall…