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Category“Pericles”: A Tall Tale, Told Warmly at the Guthrie Theater
I had never seen Shakespeare’s Pericles before today’s matinee at the Guthrie Theater, but I was plenty familiar with its latter-day regio..
Rabih Mroué’s “Riding on a Cloud” at the Walker Art Center: A Tender Brotherly Portrait
Last time Beirut-born theater artist Rabih Mroué was featured in the Walker Art Center’s annual Out There series, he came to town with Loo..
Daniel Fish Does David Foster Wallace, Dynamically, at the Walker Art Center
When you arrive at the Walker Art Center’s McGuire Theater for Daniel Fish’s A (radically condensed and expanded) Supposedly Fun Thing I’l..
“Fahrenheit 451”: Theatre in the Round Finds Layers in Bradbury’s Classic
If you, like a lot of people, read Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 once, in high school, you might remember it sketchily as a dystopian scie..
“RoosevElvis”: At Walker Art Center, the TEAM Take a Resonant American Journey
Prior to the start of RoosevElvis at the Walker Art Center’s McGuire Theater on Thursday night, the TEAM’s artistic director Rachel Chavki..
“A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder”: Old-School Yuks, for Better and For Worse
A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder is the kind of show that you ask people about and get, in response, a shrug. “It won a Tony,” they ..
Everything I Reviewed in 2015, Ranked from Best to Worst
Science Museum of Minnesota’s Omnifest Takes Enlightening Trip to Jerusalem
I’ve never been to Jerusalem, but it’s always been part of my life. Raised Catholic, I grew up hearing daily stories about historical happ..
Ordway’s “Sound of Music” summons old-world charm
Based on a true story, The Sound of Music tells the story of Maria Von Trapp, a young postulate at an Austrian abbey just before World War..
Sheep Theater is Totally a Thing Now
Why Sheep?
“I like to paint,” said Joey Hamburger, sitting at the Spyhouse on Nicollet on Tuesday night. “Every time I paint it starts ..
20% 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..
Choreographers’ Evening 2015: Walker Art Center Put the Dada in Dadance
There’s always a certain conceptual flavor to the Choreographers’ Evening — this is the Walker Art Center, after all — but this year’s col..