Category: Theater

Edgar Allan Poe’s Nutcracker (the un-ballet) by Interact Theater

Edgar Allan Poe’s Nutcracker (the un-ballet) is a weird and wonderful production created by Interact Center’s ensemble and performed by them under the direction of Taous Claire Khazem and Scotty Reynolds at their new home (1860  Minnehaha Avenue West) in…

The Cocoanuts at the Guthrie Theater

Palimpsest theater. A palimpsest (as you undoubtedly know) is a manuscript in which the original text has been erased and new text written over it. Ah, but the original text is still visible. The Guthrie‘s hyperly wonderful The Cocoanuts is…

Beautiful, The Carole King Musical, Hennepin Theatre Trust performing at the Orpheum

Sh. The dyspeptic Critic is here, but I think he’s asleep. Let’s not wake him. He has a distressing tendency to belch out his poisonous opinions with room-clearing fervor. Let’s talk softly. Carole King‘s 70s album Tapestries was the soundtrack…

C.L.U. produced by Collide Theatrical Dance at the Ritz Theater

Remember the old board game, “Clue?” Ever seen a dance version of it? In Collide Theatrical Dance Company’s “C.L.U.” the saucy maid may poison the victim in the kitchen, or the malevolent Ms. Snow strangle him in the bedroom (or…

The Magic Flute by Minnesota Opera, performing at the Ordway

Minnesota Opera‘s production (at the Ordway through Nov 22 – a short run; don’t mess about; getcher tickets) of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart‘s glittering The Magic Flute boasts the most extensive and detailed use of projections I have ever seen. Did…

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…