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2012 Stories by Ed Huyck

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  TRP cast hopes to fool audiences with 'The Hollow'

  published May 24, 2012

  Director Wendy Resch Novak and the cast of The Hollow at Theatre in the Round Players want to play a game -- and they're hoping the audience will play along.The play is a murder-mystery by venerable a... More >>

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  Gremlin gets farcical with 'An Absolute Turkey'

  published May 23, 2012

  Sometimes you just have to laugh, and a well constructed and performed farce is exactly what you need. For the Gremlin Theatre, An Absolute Turkey completely fits the bill."After our initial plans for... More >>

• The View From Here at Nautilus

  published May 23, 2012

  At first, Timothy Huang's chamber musical is a comedy about a painfully naive aspiring author who has moved to New York City to find a home for... More >>

• Compleat Female Stage Beauty recalls theatrical battle of the sexes

  published May 23, 2012

  There's always a danger in putting moments from a classic play in your own work. I'm sure the last thing playwright Jeffrey Hatcher wants while... More >>

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  'Crimes of the Heart' brings us a not-everyday family

  published May 22, 2012

  Something's rotten in a small town in the heart of Dixie; something that has ensnared a trio of sisters in its grasp. Call it Southern Gothic, or maybe it's just a case of everyday family madness, but... More >>

• Doubt

  published April 25, 2012

  Director Craig Johnson notes that the subtitle to John Patrick Shanley's award-winning play Doubt is "A Parable." He sees that as a perfect... More >>

• The Birthday Party

  published April 4, 2012

  Joel Sass promises that his production of Harold Pinter's landmark 1958 play won't be what audiences often expect from the Nobel-winning... More >>

• Learn to Be Latina

  published May 2, 2012

  The venerable Mixed Blood Theatre closes its season with Learn to Be Latina, where cultural identity becomes a malleable comedy in the face... More >>

• Vasa Lisa

  published May 9, 2012

  The current debate about including women and people of color in the conversation at local theaters fits in perfectly with Ten Thousand Things'... More >>

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  Wendy Lehr makes BCT directing debut with 'Crimes of the Heart'

  published May 17, 2012

  While Crimes of the Heart marks the first time Twin Cities theater legend Wendy Lehr has worked with the Bloomington Civic Theatre, it isn't her first time around with the play. In fact, she'd directe... More >>

• Playwrights' Center 40th Anniversary Celebration: No Work, All Play

  published May 9, 2012

  Befitting the home of four decades of brand-new plays, the Playwrights' Center's No Work, All Play celebration comes packed with original work.... More >>

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  Mrs. Smith is back, Broadway style

  published May 16, 2012

  After a year where his Mrs. Smith alter-ego had a scary Halloween, hosted a failing fundraiser, and then went to a women's prison, David Hanbury wanted to explore a different side of the character -- ... More >>

• The War Within/All's Fair takes on workplace absurdities

  published May 16, 2012

  Looking around the stage last weekend at the Southern Theater, I had a sense of anticipation ahead of The War Within/All's Fair. Decades... More >>

• The Amen Corner at Penumbra

  published May 16, 2012

  The questions that swirl at the center of The Amen Corner — about faith, sin, redemption, and hope — haven't changed since... More >>

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  Walking Shadow makes the stage a stage in 'Compleat Female Stage Beauty'

  published May 15, 2012

  A brief mention in Samuel Pepys's diaries led local playwright Jeffrey Hatcher to investigate the story of Edward Kynaston, a 17th-century actor renowned for his performances in women's roles. When th... More >>

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  Penumbra merges secular and sacred in 'The Amen Corner'

  published May 11, 2012

  The Amen Corner, James Baldwin's landmark work, has been on the radar of Penumbra Theater's Lou Bellamy for a long time. "I've been teaching the play for over 30 years at the University of Minnesota,"... More >>

• Spring Awakening

  published April 18, 2012

  The University of Minnesota's Department of Theatre Arts and Dance and Theatre Latte Da's co-production of Spring Awakening promises to be a wild... More >>

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  Making fools for fun in 'The Golden Ass'

  published May 10, 2012

  It doesn't get any more primal than telling stories around a campfire. After all, back in the figurative or literal cave, around life-preserving flames, our ancestors first began to spin tales. So it'... More >>

• Are You Now or Have You Ever Been... at the Guthrie

  published May 9, 2012

  Early on in Carlyle Brown's exploration of Langston Hughes and his testimony before the Senate Permanent Subcommittee of Investigations (the... More >>

• Vasa Lisa at Open Book

  published May 9, 2012

  In Kira Obolensky's delightful retelling of this Russian folktale, the title character goes on an adventure into the deep, dark forest to... More >>

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  Playwrights' Center hosts a new-play-centric party

  published May 08, 2012

  Forty years of anything calls for a party, and the folks at the Playwrights' Center are ready to celebrate their birthday in style this weekend at the Varsity Theater. They'll do it not just with food... More >>

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  Mike Fotis and Lauren Anderson present 'Foterson: Man Lady Funny Time'

  published May 03, 2012

  Mike Fotis and Lauren Anderson have been colleagues and friends for years. Both have deep ties to the Brave New Workshop through longstanding onstage revues and as graduates of the associated Student ... More >>

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  Ten Thousand Things teams up with Kira Obolensky for 'Vasa Lisa'

  published May 02, 2012

  Ten Thousand Things Theater isn't interested in presenting "small" work, and neither is playwright Kira Obolensky. That makes the pairing of the two for Vasa Lisa a particular thrill. "Many contempora... More >>

• Doubt at Park Square Theatre

  published May 2, 2012

  Befitting a play about the slippery nature of the truth, the title of John Patrick Shanley's Pulitzer Prize-winning play can be taken in... More >>

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  'Work of Heart' merges visual arts with theater

  published May 01, 2012

  The latest Interact piece merges the efforts of the company's gallery and theater into a delightful event that takes the audience to far-off planes before returning everyone "home." The evenin... More >>