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“Pretty Girls Make Graves” at the Minnesota Fringe Festival: Vinyl, but not very warm
With a lead character’s Morrissey fandom presented front and center in publicity materials, and a title taken from a Smiths song that also..
“Total Eclipse of the Heart”: A Minnesota Fringe Festival art farce
Before Illusion Theater’s house lights went down on Total Eclipse of the Heart, I pulled up the lyrics to Bonnie Tyler’s 1983 anthem and q..
“Frankenstein”: Have you heard the one about the man and his monster who walk in to the Minnesota Fringe Festival?
If your list of things a Fringe show can do doesn’t include “scare the pants off you,” allow me to introduce you to Victor Frankenstein, t..
“Kinky Boots”: A magnificent musical comes to Minneapolis
When critics pan shows, we’re often regarded as being spiteful, jaded, or simply out-of-touch. In my experience, though, we’re all too in ..
Interview: Dance artist Katie Rose McLaughlin talks about her very meta “Nutcracker”
Despite the fact that it was never performed in full in the United States until the 1940s, The Nutcracker has become as much a pillar of t..
“20,000 Leagues Under the Sea”: Finding Nemo with the Children’s Theatre Company
I’m not quite sure how a submarine crew would smell after traveling 20,000 leagues under the sea, but as a couple of dozen kids, parents, ..
A letter home from “Wet Hot Minnesotan Summer” at the Bryant-Lake Bowl
Hello mudder, hello fadder—
I was going to write this whole letter in rhyming cadence to the tune of Dance of the Hours, but I don’t ha..
A triumphant “Music Man” parades into the Guthrie Theater
The Music Man opened at the Guthrie Theater this weekend under the direction of John Miller-Stephany and delivers pure, pleasurable summer..
“You Can’t Take It With You”: Jungle Theater lives in the moment, circa 1936
It’s apt that a pair of actual kittens appear in the opening scene of the Jungle Theater’s new production of You Can’t Take It With You, b..
“Church Basement Ladies” revival at Plymouth Playhouse marks tenth anniversary of stalwart franchise
In 2005, Church Basement Ladies premiered at Plymouth Playhouse, a run that lasted two and a half years and entertained over 250,000 patro..
“Damn Yankees” at the Ordway: A Familiar Tale, Told Well
The Ordway Center for the Performing Arts is currently presenting Damn Yankees, which tells the story of Joe Boyd, a life-long Washington ..
“Unearthing the Family Jewels”: Mad King Thomas turn ten with a bang
You’re not likely to see a more life-affirming show this summer than Unearthing the Family Jewels, the dazzling and delightful aluminum an..