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2013 Stories by Ed Huyck

• 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 >>

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  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 >>

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  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 >>

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  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 >>

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  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 >>

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  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 >>

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  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 >>

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  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 >>

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  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 >>

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  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 >>

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  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 >>

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  Open Eye channels Ralph Kramden, the Greeks for To the Moon

  published Feb 14, 2013

  For his latest project, To The Moon, Open Eye Figure Theatre's Michael Sommers will be stepping away from puppets.That doesn't mean the heightened sense of reality -- and unreality -- that marks his w... More >>

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  The Seven: The curse of Oedipus by way of hip-hop

  published Feb 13, 2013

  Sarah Rasmussen may be in her first go-around as director with Ten Thousand Things, but she has long loved the company's signature plays, and has worked as a puppeteer, an assistant director, and even... More >>

• Book of Mormon: Mission accomplished

  published February 13, 2013

  As the young missionaries at the center of The Book of Mormon arrive at their African destination, they are horrified by the poverty,... More >>

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  The Book of Mormon: Having fun and offending all

  published Feb 08, 2013

  In a moment that pretty much sums up The Book of Mormon, one of the young missionaries freshly arrived in the reality of Africa notes that "this isn't like The Lion King."Oh, definitely not. Trey Park... More >>

• MN Opera: Doubt

  published January 30, 2013

  Since its debut in 2004, John Patrick Shanley's Doubt: A Parable has won the Tony and Pulitzer prizes, been adapted into a movie starring... More >>

• Rabbit Hole

  published January 9, 2013

  The death of a child is perhaps the most devastating event in any parent's life. The raw emotions make it a difficult subject to capture onstage... More >>

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  Ferguson and Heimbuch revisit The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

  published Feb 07, 2013

  Over the past several years, creators Jon Ferguson and John Heimbuch have created a series of intriguing shows together, including an adaptation of Moby Dick (On the White Whale) and a collection of S... More >>

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  Transatlantic Love Affair takes deep into the wood for Red Resurrected

  published Feb 06, 2013

  Transatlantic Love Affair is hoping lighting strikes again. The innovative company -- where the everything, down to the sets and sound effects, is created by the actors onstage -- is presenting a revi... More >>

• Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom

  published February 6, 2013

  Something is not right in the lovely subdivision in Jennifer Haley's play. The kids are all obsessed with a new video game that re-creates... More >>