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Tag20% Theatre Company Twin Cities Brings Stereotypes To Heel With “Femmes: A Tragedy”
Gina Young’s 2013 play Femmes: A Tragedy has a clever, subversive premise. Young reimagines Clare Booth Luce’s 1936 play The Women — a com..
Guthrie Theater’s 2015 “Christmas Carol” Doesn’t Miss a Beat
Longtime followers of the Guthrie Theater’s Christmas Carol think of the succession of actors playing Ebenezer Scrooge as eras — the way B..
“Doubt”: New Epic Theater Plumbs the Depths
I’ve always thought John Patrick Shanley’s 2004 play Doubt was an open-and-shut case. I think the priest accused of child molestation is ..
Jungle Theater’s “The Night Alive”: Warm Hearts, Cold Truths
“That was a good ending!” declared the man sitting in front of me as the lights went down at the conclusion of the Jungle Theater’s Wednes..
“The Wizard of Oz”: CTC Recreates a Classic
Imagine an audience equally comprising young children and adults—all held captive for close to two hours, with the only sound being a youn..
“Hippie Modernism”: Walker Art Center Revisits a Utopian Dream
Last year, Miley Cyrus created the Happy Hippie Foundation: a nonprofit organization that aims “to rally young people to fight injustice f..
The Bakken is the Halloweeniest of all museums
I knew I was making a mistake by waiting all these years to make my first trip to the Bakken Museum. “It’s awesome!” said everyone. “I kno..
Soap Factory Haunted Basement 2015: Choose your own nightmare
I let my sister get abducted by Santa. She did come back, but she was bloody. At least, that splatter of red on the shoulder of her t-shir..
In Guthrie Theater’s “To Kill a Mockingbird,” a “Watchman” quietly waits
I didn’t read Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird until I reviewed it for a children’s literature class I was taking in college. On my revi..
Theatre Pro Rata Tells “A Lie of the Mind” with Vigor
When I was growing up, I was fascinated with my dad’s CD of the Red Clay Ramblers’ music for the original off-Broadway run of Sam Shepard’..
New “Cinderella,” at the Orpheum Theatre, fails to enchant
The production of Cinderella currently playing at the Orpheum Theatre in Minneapolis is playwright Douglas Carter Beane’s 2013 adaptation ..
“Looking for Fun(Bags)” at the Minnesota Fringe Festival: Can you love a cad?
Looking for Fun(Bags), now being presented at the Ritz Theater Studio as part of the Minnesota Fringe Festival, raises a lot of red flags ..