For the first time in the Swiss cheesy memory of this reviewer, a Jungle Theater play has been directed by neither Bain Boehlke nor by his apparent heir apparent Joel Sass. Instead, A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To…
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God Of Carnage at the Guthrie Theater
New York is a marvelous city: compact, gorgeously slummy, ethnicities swirling together, SROs right next to upper income high-rises. The City (New Yorkers never bother with the actual name) is filled with weird clubs, outstanding eateries, architectural gems, astounding street…
“Steerage Song” by Theater Latte Da at the Fitzgerald Theater
Theater Latte Da, in partnership with Minnesota Public Radio, has turned its attention to the stories of our immigrant forebears, as told through newspaper reports, speeches, books of the period and the songs distinctive to each culture. The music the…
“Come Hell and High Water” by The Moving Company at the Southern Theater
A new theater company with firmly established Twin Cities artists has ventured forth with a credo that is, not surprisingly, given the founders, committed to new ideas; this has been the calling card for shows conceived and guided by Dominique…
Opus at Park Square Theatre
Park Square Theatre is turning plays about classical music into a minor specialty. They recently produced (it opened the night of the Big Blizzard) 2 Pianos 4 Hands, a lively and affecting mediation on failure: what happens when you devote…
In The Red And Brown Water by Pillsbury House Theatre performing at the Guthrie
Playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney lives in London and, indeed, his powerful In The Red And Brown Water (Pillsbury House Theatre performing in the Guthrie‘s Dowling Studio, through June 5) is written with an expatriate’s ardor. This begins with the play’s…
“Next to Normal” at the Ordway
The Ordway has brought a powerful, substantial and beautiful new musical to its main stage with the Tony Award-winning “Next to Normal,†a play that plots out new territory for what musicals can talk about. In this case, the subject…
after the quake by Walking Shadow Theatre Company
Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami is a master of the everyday surreal: he creates ordinary characters – bank clerks, university students, data processors – and builds around them fantastic dream-like stories. Like Dorothy thrust into the land of Oz, Murakami’s people…
The Year of Magical Thinking, a nimbus theatre Production
Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends. – Joan Didion “It will happen to you,†author Joan Didion (played by Barbara Berlovitz) says in the opening scene of Didion’s…
Sexy Librarian: File Under Rock Musical by Joking Envelope at the Minneapolis Theatre Garage
The play stars Anna Sundberg, and that’s all you really need to know. In Sexy Librarian: File Under Rock Musical (Joking Envelope at the Minneapolis Theatre Garage through May 21) Sundberg plays Constance Black, ultra-frumpy librarian, frizzy-haired, near-sighted, bent under…