Category: Reviews

Zoo Animal CD Release Party with Red Pens, His and Her Vanities, and Red Pens at the 7th Street Entry

The lineup for Zoo Animal’s CD release party at 7th St. Entry couldn’t have been more promising, with Hildur Victoria, His and Her Vanities, Red Pens fleshing out the headlining band’s big night. Zoo Animal’s second self-titled album boasts bigger…

Dollhouse at the Guthrie Theater

“Cash.” This is how Nora Helmer, hero of Rebecca Gilman‘s Dollhouse (on the Guthrie’s McGuire proscenium, through July 11, guthrietheater.org), her modernization of the Henrik Ibsen classic A Doll’s House, succinctly describes what she most wants from this life.  Gilman…

Circle Mirror Transformation at the Guthrie Theater

Circle Mirror Transformation (at the Guthrie’s Dowling Studio, through June 13, 612.377.2224, guthrietheater.org) by Annie Baker sneaks up on you.  It all seems, initially, so sweet and innocuous.  Marty is conducting a class for beginning actors in a small Vermont…

Slideshow: Peter Wolf Crier CD Re-release at the Turf Club

HowWasTheShow is proud to present Jenn Barnett’s photos of Peter Wolf Crier‘s CD Release at The Turf Club with Kill The Vultures. Slideshow is set to “Crutch and Cane” by Peter Wolf Crier. See also, David de Young’s review of…

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,…

Biggest Little House In The Forest at The Children's Theatre Company

What a pleasure to actually see Autumn Ness. In The Biggest Little House In The Forest (on the Children’s Theatre Co.’s Cargill Stage, 2400 3rd Ave. S., Minneapolis, through June 20, childrenstheatre.org) Ms. Ness wears none of the feature disguising makeup…