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1999 Stories by Peter Ritter

• The Lists

  published December 15, 1999

  The Top and The Bottom for 1999. More >>

• The Year in Theater

  published December 15, 1999

  Good plays, bad plays, and the drama of real estate--plus the thespians talk back. More >>

• Naughty By Nature

  published December 15, 1999

  Give it up, fat man: A boy's dramatic Xmas ultimatum. More >>

• Sideshow Mozart

  published December 1, 1999

  Theatre de la Jeune Lune's The Magic Flute looks less like the Ring cycle and more like a three-ring circus More >>

• This Rough Magic

  published December 1, 1999

  With bare-bones budgets and ambitious productions, Michelle Hensley takes theater off the stage and into the trenches. More >>

• Dead Souls

  published November 17, 1999

  Mary Worth's The Gods Are Thirsty makes history; University Theatre's The Dybbuk gives up the ghost. More >>

• As the Door Revolves

  published November 17, 1999

  Julie Idelkope says she can tell the difference between city hall and her Northwest Airlines office. Critics are not so sure. More >>

• Sweet Hereafter

  published November 10, 1999

  Carolyn Goelzer reconstructs Janis Joplin; Arthur Miller remembers a life . More >>

• Don't Look Back

  published November 3, 1999

  In a new play, Arthur Miller conjures the hunger of memory. More >>

• Fight the Future

  published October 27, 1999

  Cloud 9 sexes God, queen, and country; The Tomorrow Project creeps in its petty pace. More >>

• The Land of Youth

  published October 20, 1999

  Hayao Miyazaki has devoted his films to mapping the idylls of childhood. Now, with his masterly Princess Mononoke, Japan's Walt Disney sets out... More >>

• Blow Out

  published October 20, 1999

  The young and the feckless: Warren (Bard Goodrich) in This Is Our Youth. More >>

• Down at the Depot

  published October 13, 1999

  Blight in southwest Minneapolis? According to city officials, you betcha! More >>

• The Blood of a Poet

  published October 13, 1999

  The queen mother: Joe Wilson Jr. and Kathryn Gagnon in Luis Alfaro's Straight as a Line. More >>

• Beggars and Losers

  published October 13, 1999

  The Threepenny Opera counts the cost of human capital; Blues for an Alabama Sky clocks a red-hot minute. More >>

• Trading Places

  published October 6, 1999

  In a drama of mistaken identities, superproducer Cameron Mackintosh brings a musical to a nonprofit stage, while the Guthrie claims a cut of the... More >>

• Double Trouble

  published September 29, 1999

  First Ladies of Ramsey County and Edith Stein: In the middle of the middle of nowhere? More >>

• Shadow and Act, Scene II

  published September 22, 1999

  The turnover at Penumbra Theatre continues. More >>

• Twinkle, Twinkle Little Bat

  published September 22, 1999

  The Jungle Theater sends Salvador Dali through a looking glass in Lobster Alice; 15 Head presents Dracula as a messenger of modern... More >>

• Play It Again

  published September 15, 1999

  Three different theatrical productions pose the same question: Does familiarity breed contempt? More >>

• Shadow and Act

  published September 8, 1999

  Penumbra Theatre's campaign to build an ambitious new stage has the makings of an epic drama--or a nonprofit tragedy. More >>

• The Names

  published September 1, 1999

  In the author-signed-book trade, literature meets the ledger. More >>

• Fool's Paradise

  published September 1, 1999

  In ye olde Shakopee Valley, medieval lurks in the hearts of men. More >>

• Fool's Fortune

  published August 25, 1999

  Wherefore art thou Romeo: Juliet embraces her anemic lover in an Ordway original production. More >>

• Joint Account

  published August 18, 1999

  The Polish brothers claim an intimate connection to the story of Twin Falls Idaho. More >>