Email Author Ed Huyck

2013 Stories by Ed Huyck

• 

  FEATURED STORY

  Jackie and Me: Too much in play

  published Mar 19, 2013

  Joey Stoshack gets to do what so many of us dream about: travel back in time and meet his heroes. For the baseball-obsessed youth who can make his journeys by touching the trading cards of his favorit... More >>

• 

  FEATURED STORY

  Twelfth Night: It's all about the yellow stockings

  published Mar 18, 2013

  In the world of Shakespeare, nothing brings nearly as much delight as the prospect of seeing the overbearing steward Malvolio get his comeuppance when he appears dressed in cross-gartered yellow stock... More >>

• 

  FEATURED STORY

  Spunk: Tales in the key of the blues

  published Mar 15, 2013

  Welcome back, Penumbra.Nearly a year after its last show, Penumbra Theatre roared back Thursday night to an eager crowd thrilled to have their favorites back home. The company returned with Spunk, Geo... More >>

• Relive history with Yellow Fever and Or

  published March 13, 2013

  Mu Performing Arts' Rick Shiomi comes full circle with this production at the Dowling Studio. Thirty years ago, Yellow Fever was a... More >>

• 

  FEATURED STORY

  Love blossomed for couple on The Light in the Piazza

  published Mar 12, 2013

  For the next few weeks, Jessica Fredrickson and Aleks Knezevich will get to rehearse their own upcoming wedding every night onstage in Theatre Latte Da's production of Light in the Piazza.In the show,... More >>

• 

  FEATURED STORY

  Bill W. and Dr. Bob: AA drama lacks spark

  published Mar 11, 2013

  Aside from being a terrible disease that has ruined -- and continues to ruin -- millions of lives, alcoholism has been a driving topic of modern drama. Directly or obliquely, play after play has dealt... More >>

• The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

  published January 30, 2013

  The headless horseman rides again! Walking Shadow Theatre Company builds on a successful 2012 with a local version of a show originally created in... More >>

• 

  FEATURED STORY

  Six Characters in Search of an Author: Journey to the theatrical Twilight Zone

  published Mar 07, 2013

  For the second time in the last week or so, a local show had me heading home with images of the cult British TV show Sapphire and Steel running through my head. (Short description: Two mysterious agen... More >>

• 

  FEATURED STORY

  Propeller brings Shakespeare to life, warts and all

  published Mar 06, 2013

  Don't read too much into the fact that Propeller, the British company now performing Twelfth Night and The Taming of the Shrew at the Guthrie, is an all-male company, says director Edward Hall."Propel... More >>

• The Taming of the Shrew: Thought-provoking and gender-bending

  published March 6, 2013

  The Taming of the Shrew is considered one of Shakespeare's "problem" plays, especially for audiences who don't believe a woman should be... More >>

• 

  FEATURED STORY

  Rick Shiomi returns to where it started with Yellow Fever

  published Mar 05, 2013

  Thirty years after the success of Yellow Fever, Rick Shiomi wonders if he's had his Andy Warhol-dictated 15 minutes. "For most playwrights, you put in years of hard work leading up to your first ... More >>

• 

  FEATURED STORY

  How to Swear Like a Minnesotan: Ready for some Betty Crocker lovin'

  published Mar 04, 2013

  Joseph Scrimshaw is too smart of a comedian to settle for the easy joke, which is what makes his latest venture, How to Swear Like a MInnesotan, such a beguiling concept. Taking aim at our collective ... More >>

• 

  FEATURED STORY

  Carol and Cotton revisits notorious Twin Cities murder

  published Mar 01, 2013

  Next Wednesday marks the 50th anniversary of one of the most notorious murders in St. Paul's history. It was on March 6, 1963, that Carol Thompson was brutally murdered in her Highland Park home. It d... More >>

• 

  FEATURED STORY

  Reality TV meets absurdist theater in Six Characters in Search of an Author

  published Feb 28, 2013

  Alan Berks has long been an admirer of Luigi Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author, and was surprised to find an interesting parallel with the absurdist work from the 1920s and modern-day... More >>

• Long Day's Journey Into Night

  published January 16, 2013

  The Monte Cristo Cottage is an unassuming building in New London, Connecticut. The 19th-century house, however, was the summer home of Eugene... More >>

• Elemeno Pea takes on class war

  published February 27, 2013

  At two points in Elemeno Pea, Molly Smith Metzler's modern comedy of manners set amid the upper-upper crust and the folks who serve... More >>

• 

  FEATURED STORY

  To The Moon: Blue-collar absurdists

  published Feb 26, 2013

  Open Eye and Bedlam Theatre share plenty in common, and the mixed DNA of To The Moon showcases the talents of both companies.Director Michael Sommers (Open Eye), playwright Josef Evans, and lead perfo... More >>

• 

  FEATURED STORY

  Joseph Scrimshaw: "John Scalzi called me a bitch multiple times"

  published Feb 25, 2013

  Fresh off rubbing shoulders with the geek elite on Jonathan Coulton's JoCo Cruise 2012, Joseph Scrimshaw turns his attention to his home state with a new storytelling/standup show, How To Swear Like a... More >>

• The Book of Mormon

  published January 30, 2013

  Didn't get tickets for the touring production of The Book of Mormon, the Tony Award-winning Broadway hit? You are out of luck, unless you... More >>

• 

  FEATURED STORY

  Seldom-seen works are at the heart of Girl Shorts

  published Feb 21, 2013

  Theatre Unbound brings together short plays by half a dozen women playwrights, music by several local bands, and the puppetry of Anne Sawyer-Aitch for Girl Shorts, a winter festival of work that will ... More >>

• 

  FEATURED STORY

  Elemeno Pea: 'Race and ethnicity are on the table'

  published Feb 20, 2013

  Over the past few years, California-based director Mark Valdez has come to the cold of Minneapolis to direct at Mixed Blood Theatre, from adapting The Pajama Game into a bilingual piece to helming las... More >>

• The Seven brings Greek tragedy to the hood

  published February 20, 2013

  In ancient Greece, music, poetry, and masks were all part of the theatrical experience. Will Power's reimagined and remixed edition of... More >>

• 

  FEATURED STORY

  Other Desert Cities finds voice in the end

  published Feb 18, 2013

  There's a disconnect between audience and the action onstage in the early scenes of Other Desert Cities, the Jon Robin Baitz drama that opened last weekend on the Guthrie's McGuire Proscenium Stage. T... More >>

• 

  FEATURED STORY

  Ring of Fire: Milage may vary

  published Feb 15, 2013

  Tickets for Ring of Fire, the latest show at the Plymouth Playhouse with the helpful subtitle of "the music of Johnny Cash," run between $26 and $38. The question is: What does the onstage revue of th... More >>

• The Tiger Among Us

  published January 23, 2013

  Mu Performing Arts looks to the Hmong experience in Minnesota — specifically, small-town rural Minnesota — in its latest production,... More >>