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Mixed Blood's 2010 bilingual show (Spanish and English, with handy projected translations) is an adaptation of Isabel Allende's novel, La Casa de los Espiritus, about three...
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Aaron Posner's script is an adaptation of a book by Chaim Potok. It tells the story of a boy from a strictly observant Brooklyn Jewish community whose dawning love of fine art...
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Gee's Bend, Alabama, has a long and often troubled history of oppression and discrimination. At one point during the civil rights era, the isolated town had its ferry service...
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You get a lot of questions when you have a theater critic gig. What gives you the right? Do you know anything? Did you get your credentials from a Caribbean diploma mill? And...
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We all want to rob from the rich and give to the poor—that is, as long as we're not the one getting robbed. Greg Banks adapts and directs this story of the medieval...
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At the beginning of the second act of The Master Butchers Singing Club, the premiere of an adaptation by Marsha Norman of Louise Erdrich's 2003 novel of the same name, our...
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Legendary local funnyman Dudley Riggs has a story like few others, spanning life in the circus, Vaudeville, and the founding of the Brave New Workshop as a bastion of...
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Theater Latte Da takes on Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Weber's musical about everyone's favorite Argentinean first lady with questionable politics. It's not difficult to...
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THERE'S LITTLE DOUBT on a September afternoon who is most enjoying the south Minneapolis rehearsal space/storage heap occupied by Frank Theatre: artistic director Wendy Knox's...
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At some point, we've all felt the need to get out of a rut (or a dire crevasse, as the case may be). Circumstances constrict, and all we can think about is the nearest exit....
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CTC first staged a show about the hapless Bartholomew Cubbins back in 1979; if you're old enough to have seen it then, you're probably in need of a fresh dose of Dr. Seuss's...
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Joseph Scrimshaw is a busy man. I catch him in an Uptown café, where he is sipping Coke from a bottle and generally looking as though he's enjoying a brief interlude of...
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The relationship between citizens and those who police them is never a settled issue, whether it's an understanding of the daily pressures and dangers faced by cops or a...
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The latest show by the Brave New Workshop is very, very funny—for my money, among the best they've produced in the last couple of years. The key here isn't the topical...
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Sometimes things just go right. At last Saturday afternoon's performance of Nature at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum, a flock of geese flew in formation overhead as 19th...
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Vigil has received good notices from productions in New York, nearly all of which have commented that the play is a uniquely strange combination of comedy, cruelty, and death...
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Box Wine Theatre doles out a series of short comedic works plucked from strange and improbable headlines. Samples include: "Girl's Prosthetic Leg Stolen Twice," "Man Accused...
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Actors Theater and the Camp Bar team up for a show centered entirely on the concept of getting hammered, wall-eyed, and boozy—the fun side of said activities, of course...
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AT THE END of the first act of Bloomington Civic Theatre's strange and compelling take on the musical City of Angels, the writer Stine (Carl Schoenborn) and his detective...
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Pierre Marivaux's 1732 love story is nothing if not convoluted and downright strange, and this group of student performers gives it an entertaining ride. Our protagonist is...
