Pearce Bunting plays Lyndon Baines Johnson in Robert Schenkkan‘s theatrical (and loud) The Great Society (History Theatre) with none of the crude charm, the country-boy excess, the rude physical bullying that I’ve come to associate with our former president. Bunting’s LBJ…
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Complicated Fun at the History Theatre
For about 20 minutes in the early 1980s, Minneapolis created the best, the most influential, the most cutting edge music in the world. (Though no doubt there are many contemporary musicians who would happily drag you into the alley and…
Radio Man at Great American History Theatre
Are you a fan of A Prairie Home Companion? If so, you’ll adore Garrison Keillor‘s Radio Man (at the Great American History Theatre, through Oct 26). It’s all there: Guy Noir, The Lives of the Cowboys, The Hopeful Gospel Quartet,…
The Working Boys Band at The History Theatre
The History Theatre has premiered a new musical that uses a relatively obscure bit of history to illuminate a corner of the dynamic environment of Minneapolis in 1917, just as America was entering W.W. I. The show’s composer, the late…
Baby Case at the History Theatre
It was a dark and stormy night – quite literally – when I saw the History Theatre’s production of “Baby Case,†a dark and stormy musical retelling of the “trial of the century,†as it was dubbed. The kidnapping and…
1968 by the History Theatre at the History Center of Minnesota
Produced by the History Theatre at the Minnesota History Center, in tandem with the exhibit that opened last fall, 1968 is also a collaborative project with the Playwrights Center. Seven scenes written by PWC members tell personal stories that are…