Category: Reviews

A Streetcar Named Desire at The Guthrie Theater

Tennessee Williams‘s great A Streetcar Named Desire (at the Guthrie through August 29, guthrietheater.org) smolders with the heat of a sultry New Orleans summer.  The heavy scent of flowers (“Flores para los muertos”) mixed with the smell of cooking meat,…

The Mystery Of Irma Vep at The Jungle Theater

Mandacrest.  Hampstead Heath.  Home of the tweedily eccentric Lord Edgar – he of the Ronald Colman mustache and the crushing dark secret.  Freshly married to Lady Enid – she of the heaving bosom, the swirling blonde hair, and the dark…

Baby With The Bathwater at Prospero Theatre

The newborn in Christopher Durang‘s nasty and funny Baby With The Bathwater (Prospero Theatre, at the Friends Meeting House, 1725 Grand Ave in St. Paul, through June 26, prosperotheatre.org) is relentless.  It cries in the morning, it cries late at…

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…

Sherlock Holmes And The Case Of The Jersey Lily at Park Square Theatre

It doesn’t lack for exuberance, this latest in an ever-lengthening line of Sherlock Holmes adaptations.  Katie Forgette‘s Sherlock Homes And The Case Of The Jersey Lily (at Park Square Theatre through July 3; 20 W. 7th Place; parksquaretheatre.org) begins, as…

Photo set: Soundset 2010

Meredith Westin‘s photos of Soundset 2010 at Canterbury Park, Shakopee, MN on Sunday, May 30th, 2010.  Featuring Atmosphere, Method Man & Redman, Brother Ali, Hieroglyphics featuring Del The Funky Homosapien, Souls of Mischief, Casual and Pep Love, P.O.S, Murs, Freeway…