Category: Minnesota
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Theater review: “Six” sticks its latest Ordway landing
This is the fourth time “Six” has played at the Ordway, starting with a pre-Broadway run in 2019.
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Theater review: “Suffs” resounds with righteousness
Wow! Everything about this show works: performances, songs, costumes, sets, lighting, and sound. Treat yourself and see it if you can.
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Theater review: Overstuffed “Mrs. Doubtfire” still amuses
The transition from film to musical is not seamless, and none of the songs are particularly memorable, but nonetheless: be prepared to laugh.
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Theater review: “Mean Girls,” at the Ordway, plumbs perennial teen angst
“You can’t provide what you don’t offer, so because Cady was being fake, she lost friends because she wasn’t being her real self.”
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Theater review: “Come From Away” is a reminder of human decency
Canadians accommodated thousands of stranded airline passengers on 9/11. How did we thank them? With…this Tony-winning musical!
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Review: Guthrie Theater’s “Christmas Carol” constrains its characters
Scrooge has literally let his hair down, but this strangely subdued “Christmas Carol” remains firmly stuffed in its nightcap.
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2023 British Arrows cut to the feeling
This year’s Arrows convey the sense of a world where we’re holding hands but we can’t say whether it’s out of attraction or panic.
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Theater Review: Reimagined “Oklahoma!” Hints America Is Not O.K.
Director Daniel Fish’s radical reinvention of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s musical shines in a production now touring nationally.
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Theater Review: Theatre Pro Rata Brings Shoulderpads-Era Caryl Churchill to the Crane Theater With “Top Girls”
This accessible, absorbing production is ample reason to pause the endless content stream and check in again with live theater.
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Theater Review: The Birth Play Project’s “Aquelarres” Brings Strange Magic to the Open Air
Though uneven, “Aquelarres” marks a welcome stage in the gradual return of live independent theater in all its wonderful weirdness.
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Theater Review: Theatre Elision Finds Safe Harbor With “Islander”
In one of Minnesota’s first indoor productions since the pandemic struck, Theatre Elision presents an atmospheric a capella musical.
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British Arrows Greatest Hits bring welcome warmth via the Walker Art Center
If anyone knows how to make good use of screen time, it’s the people who have to pay £1,000 a second for it.