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Guthrie Theater’s “Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court”: Knights, erudite but light
Playwright Jeffrey Hatcher can hardly open his mouth or lift his pen without dropping a dry witticism or an erudite bon mot. That gift has..
Guthrie Theater’s “Cocktail Hour”: Well, half of the title is true
“When they’re trying to decide what plays to put in here,” said my girlfriend as we took our seats at the Guthrie Theater’s McGuire Prosce..
Guthrie Theater’s “Christmas Carol”: 40 years of figgy pudding
The critic Jan Swafford has pointed out that the genius of Bach’s music is apparent in its incorruptibility: arrange his Baroque compositi..
“Relics”: Theater of the (gently) absurd at the Guthrie
If you like the scene in Disney’s Little Mermaid where Scuttle the seagull shows Ariel how to comb her hair with a dinner-fork “dinglehopp..
And all those like her: “The Heidi Chronicles,” 25 years later
My paternal grandmother Mary Anne Nuessle Gabler would have celebrated her 95th birthday this month. My father posted a memorial essay Abi..
Christopher Hampton’s “Appomattox,” at the Guthrie Theater, Takes the Safe Road Through History
In Appomattox, Christopher Hampton doesn’t entirely manage to suppress his well-honed playwright’s instinct for crafting memorable charact..