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2013 Stories by Ed Huyck

• 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 >>

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  In the Time of the Butterflies: Trampled underfoot

  published Apr 08, 2013

  For three decades, from 1930 to 1961, Rafael Trujillo ruled the Dominican Republic, creating a brutal dictatorship where life for everyday citizens was full of fear. His rule eventually ended with an ... More >>

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  Misterman: Sex, lies, and audiotape

  published Apr 04, 2013

  The latest Frank Theatre show involves a man alone onstage, accompanied only by audiotapes he has carefully constructed over the lonely years of his life.It may sound like a certain Samuel Beckett one... More >>

• Deathtrap gets bogged down in the details

  published April 2, 2013

  Ira Levin may be best known for his scary novels — from Rosemary's Baby to The Stepford Wives to The Boys From... More >>

• Jackie and Me at the Children's Theatre

  published April 2, 2013

  Falling uneasily between a serious drama and a high school history report, Steven Dietz's Jackie and Me, based on one of the novels in... More >>

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  Museum drama looks at long-distance Civil War relationship

  published Apr 02, 2013

  A kind of Civil War Love Letters will be presented at the Minnesota History Center in the coming week. Go If You Think It Is Your Duty traces the relationship of Madison and Lizzie Bowler, who sp... More >>

• Other Desert Cities

  published February 13, 2013

  While The Book of Mormon plays downtown, the Guthrie Theater brings a local production of another highly lauded Broadway show to... More >>

• Yellow Fever

  published March 6, 2013

  Rick Shiomi finishes his tenure as the artistic director of Mu Performing Arts with the show that launched his career in the 1980s, Yellow... More >>

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  Deathtrap: 'There's a fundamental fascination we have with the idea of killing somebody'

  published Mar 28, 2013

  It's tough to talk about Deathtrap without giving away the thriller's many secrets."It's a play about two men writing a play... about two men writing a play... about two men writing a play," says Stev... More >>

• How to Swear Like a Minnesotan

  published February 27, 2013

  Joseph Scrimshaw has built his reputation on clever, nerd-friendly comedy showcased in his various Minnesota Fringe Festival shows and those with... More >>

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  Bohemian Flats: Living on the mud of the Mississippi

  published Mar 27, 2013

  From the later part of the 19th century through the first part of the 20th, a small, hardscrabble community lived along the banks of the Mississippi in Minneapolis. Existing somewhere between squatter... More >>

• The Light in the Piazza sparkles

  published March 27, 2013

  In a musical about secrets, The Light in the Piazza has a doozy right at its core. It's easy to think that the show, crafted by Craig... More >>

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  Brave New Workshop: Roid-rage revue

  published Mar 26, 2013

  Sometimes, a bit in a show can penetrate right into your soul. For example, I knew exactly where Bobby Gardner was coming from in one scene during the Brave New Workshop's latest piece, Lance Armstron... More >>