Email Author Ed Huyck

2013 Stories by Ed Huyck

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  An Iliad: War goes on, and on, and on

  published May 09, 2013

  Homer first wrote about the events in The Iliad nearly 3,000 years ago. Lisa Peterson and Denis O'Hare's An Iliad shows us that little has changed in the interceding centuries.Stephen Yoakam, under th... More >>

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  Pop Up Musical: Songs for the short-attention-span era

  published May 08, 2013

  VH1's Pop-Up Videos was first broadcast in 1996 -- ancient history in pop-culture terms. So it does seem like the latest offering from the Producing House is a bit behind the curve. Then again, the VH... More >>

• A Streetcar Named Desire drives at the heart

  published May 8, 2013

  Tennessee Williams's plays are rich concoctions that can easily go to your head like a liqueur — sweet, easy to drink in, and able to... More >>

• Out of the Pan into the Fire

  published May 8, 2013

  You can get a feel for how a show has gone by the debris left on stage at the end. What do we have following Out of the Pan into the... More >>

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  Old Log Theater to be sold

  published May 06, 2013

  The oldest professional theater in the Twin Cities area will soon be under new ownership for the first time in nearly 70 years.Don Stolz began working at the Old Log in 1941, directing Ned McCobb's Da... More >>

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  The Moving Company returns with Out of the Pan Into the Fire

  published May 03, 2013

  For their latest effort, the Moving Company mined a rich storytelling vein: fairy tales. In the end, they weren't interested in retelling a single story, but instead grabbed characters and situations ... More >>

• Misterman

  published April 2, 2013

  Some of the brightest luminaries in Twin Cities theater are part of Misterman — though they are never seen onstage. Actor John Catron... More >>

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  Path for Guthrie world premiere pleasant for creators

  published May 02, 2013

  For years, actor and director Roger Rees has loved Ivan Turgenev's second novel, even though it never was all that popular outside of Russia. One issuer An awkward title that translates, at best, as "... More >>

• Treasure Island is an adventure

  published May 1, 2013

  Theatrical thrills come in many packages, and there is something particularly compelling when limited resources meet boundless imagination.... More >>

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  Too many empty calories in I Love to Eat

  published Apr 29, 2013

  Like James Beard, the sole character in James Still's play, I love to eat. I also love to cook -- that was forged by my chef father and a childhood spent experimenting in the kitchen. I cooked my way... More >>

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  A saint and redemption at core of Open Window's latest

  published Apr 26, 2013

  In 1902, Alessandro Serenelli attempted to rape 12-year-old Maria Goretti. She resisted, and the 19-year-old mortally stabbed her. Before she died, Maria forgave her murderer. The young woman was ca... More >>

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  Garry Geiken on playing James Beard: "I learned how progressive his ideas about people and their relationship to food was."

  published Apr 25, 2013

  Early on while preparing for his role as James Beard in the one-man show I Love to Eat, Garry Geiken realized that there is a "big difference between trying culinary experiments without talking to a... More >>

• Gross Indecency puts Wilde on trial

  published April 24, 2013

  In 1895, Oscar Wilde was charged with committing "gross indecencies" — i.e., he was gay — but it was his art and personality that... More >>

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  History Theatre's latest is Paradise lost

  published Apr 23, 2013

  In my mind, there is not wasted experience at the theater. There's always something you can observe, feel, or learn from attending a show. Take This Side of Paradise, the F. Scott and Zelda Fitzger... More >>

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  Lorca in a Green Dress: An afterlife with dreams

  published Apr 19, 2013

  Surreal and elliptical, Nilo Cruz's Lorca in a Green Dress attempts to not just uncover the final moments of the life of the Spanish poet and playwright, but tries to connect the personal pieces of hi... More >>

• Spunk

  published March 13, 2013

  After a year when most of Penumbra Theatre's headlines were about offstage issues centered on budget shortfalls and show cancellations, the... More >>

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  The Great Divide talks politics from both sides of the aisle

  published Apr 17, 2013

  Alan Berks latest play with the Workhaus Collective dives deep into the political heart of America and The Great Divide between left and right."If anyone is at all interested in politics, it will boil... More >>

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  girl group: Rock 'n' roll never forgets

  published Apr 16, 2013

  As AC/DC so deftly put it, it is a long way to the top if you want to rock 'n' roll. For women, that journey has often been tougher. Producers, managers, and promoters have always looked at music... More >>

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  Gross Indecency: Art on trial

  published Apr 15, 2013

  Art and courtrooms don't mix. Even the most erudite and thoughtful creator can be tripped up in the minutia of the law, where precision and clearly defined facts are king; not the illumination of the ... More >>

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  Collaboration at heart of Nice Fish

  published Apr 12, 2013

  Louis Jenkins and Mark Rylance didn't meet until they began to work on their collaboration, Nice Fish, which opens this week at the Guthrie Theater.Their connection, however, goes back further. During... More >>

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  Craig Johnson ready to get Wilde in Gross Indecency

  published Apr 11, 2013

  This may be Craig Johnson's first time performing in Moises Kaufman's Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde, but it isn't his first time playing the famous playwright, novelist, and wit.In ... More >>

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  Musicians in girl group try to live rock 'n' roll dreams

  published Apr 10, 2013

  It's time to rock 'n' roll all night with the latest production from Theatre Unbound. The company's show, girl group, travels back to 1965, and looks at the pressures faced by a  group of young w... More >>

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  The Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival

  published April 9, 2013

  When Minnesota-born and -raised filmmaker Kevin Schreck began making The Persistence of Vision, his documentary debut, he knew it was... More >>

• Misterman's heart of darkness

  published April 9, 2013

  In the seconds between the darkness at the end of Misterman Saturday evening and the return of light for the curtain call, there was an... More >>

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  Freshwater heads back to the hell of high school

  published Apr 09, 2013

  Freshwater Theatre takes everyone back to the dark days of high school with The Gifted Program. Set in Racine, WI, in 1986, Ruben Carbajal's play looks at the lives of four refugees from the school's ... More >>