Category: Theater

Sister Act by Chanhassen Dinner Theatre

The musical Sister Act, which just opened on the main stage of the Chanhassen Dinner Theatre (and runs through February 27), is as good as holiday fair gets in this season of elves, sugar plum fairies and dogs with antlers.…

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…

The Iveys 2015

Replete with glitz, red carpet photographers, and television coverage (the awards will air locally Sunday, September 27, from 7-9 pm CDT on the CW), the Ivey Awards are a yearly opportunity to celebrate and revel in the immense talent and…

To Kill A Mockingbird at the Guthrie Theater

In an interview in 1964 Harper Lee, the author of the novel To Kill a Mockingbird (stage version at the Guthrie Theater, through Oct 18) said, “All I want to be is the Jane Austin of South Alabama.” Fifty years…

A Lie Of The Mind by Theatre Pro Rata, performing at Nimbus Theater

What’re you gonna do with an unwieldy – and bloodily frightening piece of stagecraft like Sam Shepard‘s A Lie Of The Mind (Theatre Pro Rata, performing at Nimbus Theater, through Sept 27)? You might just through up your arms and…

Cinderella at the Orpheum

For many of us, raised on its various television renditions, Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella (Hennepin Theatre Trust, performing at the Orpheum Theatre, through Sept 13) is the Cinderella. Those who grew up with this music find it impossible to hear…

Annapurna at The Jungle Theater

We are introduced to Ulysses, the hermitous center of Sharr White’s marital dramedy Annapurna (The Jungle Theater, through October 18) as he is frying rotten sausage in the dilapidated confines of his ramshackle trailer. He is clothed in nothing but…