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2011 Stories by Ed Huyck

• Spotlight: The K of D

  published October 19, 2011

  In The K of D, the audience goes on a dizzying, Stephen King-like tour of a small Ohio town and the strange events that surround a... More >>

• PlayLabs offers 'enhanced' workshops of new work

  published Oct 18, 2011

  This week, four new plays will get "enhanced" workshops for PlayLabs 2011, a part of the Playwrights' Center's 40th-anniversary season."This year, we were looking for writers who were telling bigger ... More >>

• Christopher Sieber comes home for 'La Cage Aux Folles'

  published Oct 17, 2011

  rChristopher Sieber is ready for his homecoming.Twenty-some years ago, the actor left his boyhood home in Forest Lake and took a plane to New York to see if he could make it on a big stage. Since then... More >>

• 'Hunter Gatherers' aims to uncover bloody heart beneath society

  published Oct 14, 2011

  At an annual dinner party between two couples, the everyday layers of society are about to be stripped away. What's underneath is what fascinates Steve Busa, who is directing Red Eye Theater's product... More >>

• Hamlet

  published August 24, 2011

  Using Michael Almeryda's 2000 adaptation of Shakespeare's most popular piece as a starting point, Jungle founder and director Bain Boehlke set out... More >>

• 'K of D' soars at Illusion Theater thanks to actor's efforts

  published Oct 13, 2011

  rTheater in the morning can be an odd proposition. Actors (and theater critics) aren't the type to usually greet the day with a big sunny "hello" before getting down to the business of transforming th... More >>

• 'H.M.S. Pinafore' sets sail on PBS

  published Oct 12, 2011

  If you missed out on the zany Gilbert and Sullivan action when it played at the Guthrie Theater earlier this year, or want to revisit David Bolger snappy, Ivey-Award-winning choreography, or just want... More >>

• The 25th Annual Putnam Spelling Bee at the Ordway Center

  published October 12, 2011

  Growing up, I was a terrible speller, to the point that my parents, who never offered bribes for good behavior or grades, made me a deal in... More >>

• Rabbit Hole

  published October 12, 2011

  At the beginning of Rabbit Hole, two sisters, Becca and Izzy, are chatting. All the while, Becca is folding clothes, fresh from the... More >>

• 'Accidental Death of an Anarchist' misses mark, but still largely engrossing

  published Oct 07, 2011

  rThere's something fascinating about watching a show just miss the mark, as Nimbus's season opener, Accidental Death of an Anarchist, does. The cast is game and hardworking, the script i... More >>

• The Extraordinary Terms of Ordinary Life

  published September 21, 2011

  A cache of insurance training materials from the 1920s inspired Ryan Lear's latest piece for Four Humors, The Extraordinary Terms of Ordinary... More >>

• Heaney merges ancient and modern in 'Burial at Thebes'

  published Oct 05, 2011

  The space allotted in the paper didn't allow me to explore all that I wanted to with the Guthrie Theater's The Burial at Thebes, and a talk held Monday evening between the playwright Seamus Heaney and... More >>

• A Wrinkle in Time at Children's Theatre Company

  published October 5, 2011

  Over the past half-century, generations of schoolchildren have thrilled to the adventures of Meg Murry in A Wrinkle in Time as she... More >>

• Theatre Latte Da brings out the braniacs for 'Spelling Bee'

  published Oct 04, 2011

  It's time for the geeks to inherit the earth -- or at least take control of the gym for one day -- in Theatre Latte Da's production of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, a musical about nine ... More >>

• 'The Burial at Thebes' brings modern edge to ancient 'Antigone'

  published Oct 03, 2011

  Sun Mee Chomet is completing an Antigone trilogy of sorts at the Guthrie Theater this fall, as she takes on the role in Seamus Heaney's The Burial at Thebes, his new version of Sophocles' play."I play... More >>

• 'Two Trains Running' triumphs

  published Sep 30, 2011

  This is why I go to the theater. Over the course of the three hours of Two Trains Running, the August Wilson epic now playing at Penumbra Theatre, we meet seven characters trying to make lives for the... More >>

• Children's Theatre Company travels along 'A Wrinkle in Time'

  published Sep 29, 2011

  Greg Banks had never read -- never even heard of -- Madeline L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time before embarking on directing a stage adaptation for the Children's Theatre Company.It turns out that's not unu... More >>

• A Short Play About 9/11

  published September 7, 2011

  New York native Dominic Orlando wrote A Short Play About 9/11 mere months after the attacks in 2001. He has resisted the temptation to... More >>

• Brave New Workshop readies new space with 'Rigged for Laughter'

  published Sep 28, 2011

  The Brave New Workshop begins another era this week when it presents Dudley: Rigged for Laughter at its new downtown Hennepin Avenue location. That production will be followed in November by the premi... More >>

• Much Ado About Nothing at the Guthrie

  published September 28, 2011

  For all of its frivolity, the Guthrie Theater's latest production of Much Ado About Nothing is, at its heart, a drama. The most... More >>

• Spotlight: The Pride

  published September 28, 2011

  In The Pride, Alexi Kaye Campbell's look at gay life in two distinct eras, the characters share names and even some superficial... More >>

• 'The Pride' misses mark while exploring two eras of gay life

  published Sep 22, 2011

  There's nothing wrong at all with the ideas behind or the execution of The Pride at the Pillsbury House Theatre, I just wish that I felt a stronger connection to the characters, be it in the confineme... More >>

• Four Humors looks into lives of 1920s insurance salesmen

  published Sep 21, 2011

  The world of life insurance in the days before the 1929 stock market crash don't jump to mind as typical comedy material, but tackling the unusual has always been on Four Humors' docket. After all, th... More >>

• August: Osage County and reasons to be pretty

  published September 21, 2011

  If you've ever watched Long Day's Journey Into Night and thought, "I like this, but I wish the family was more dysfunctional," then... More >>

• Bain Boehlke honored with Lifetime Achievement Ivey

  published Sep 20, 2011

  For once, Bain Boehlke was nearly speechless.When the usually talkative founder of the Jungle Theater faced a State Theatre packed with his peers, he could barely get out a few thank yous before he be... More >>