Ari Hoptman

Harty Boys Save Christmas

A Christmas Carol hits and misses at the Guthrie

Crispin Whittell's version losing focus on Dickens's message

Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross at Minneapolis Theatre Garage

Actors thrive in David Mamet's legendary tale

Glengarry Glen Ross

Actors thrive in David Mamet's legendary tale

The Harty Boys Save X-Mas!

Actors thrive in David Mamet's legendary tale

Stimulate This Too!

Actors thrive in David Mamet's legendary tale

Spotlight: Funny Business

Hennepin Stages through November 5

Spotlight: Don't Drink the Water

Hennepin Stages through November 5

Live Nude Theater Cheap Cheap Cheap!

(Okay, a few of the performers in the nation's biggest Fringe Festival aren't nude. but a lot of them are.)

Total infringement

(Okay, a few of the performers in the nation's biggest Fringe Festival aren't nude. but a lot of them are.)

Word from the Fringe

(Okay, a few of the performers in the nation's biggest Fringe Festival aren't nude. but a lot of them are.)

The Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival: It Ain't a Small World, After All

The sort-of true story of a Minneapolis man who made his mom into a movie, plus two local trailers, and 36 reviews from around the globe

Highlight: The Scrimshaw Show

with Ari Hoptman; New Year's Eve Special

The Year in Theater

They laughed. They cried. They used the "F" word. They wore funny wigs... and we were there

The Year in Theater

Last year my boss sent me to sit in a dark room for 150 nights. Here's what I took away from the ordeal.

Tripping the Light Fantastic

At the Minnesota Fringe Festival

Code Pink

Has playwright Ari Hoptman revived the red menace?

The Year in Theater

In Praise of Murderous Hookers, Heroic Zoroastrians, and the Ghosts of Garage Sales Storm. Plus: We viciously slag off the Andrews sisters and an embarrassing Wonder Woman costume!

The History Lesson

Events get the better of 'Sisters of Swing' and 'Partitions'

Curtain Call

Remembering Playwright Todd Irvine; Praising Actor Edwin Strout

No Man Is An Island

Theater Mu Presents One Nisei's Hawaiian Life; Jerungdu Dress Up Like the Ramones

That's Incredible

A production of the soldier's story Streamers looks for the nobler side of Vietnam

The Crash?

The Directors Theater stages substantial one-acts to a flimsy audience; Idiot Box presents the comedy troupe's favorite reruns

Kentucky Fried Theater

The Laramie Project takes a tragic American hate crime to the edge of parody

High Spirits

A 19th-century comedy and a few steins of swill make for a midwinter night's bender

He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother

The levity of sketch comedians Joseph and Joshua Scrimshaw is finding a mass appeal

The Year in Theater

The best and worst of 150 nights spent in a dark room. Plus: Dramatic hypotheses, and thespians speak out.

Indie 500

With roughly 100 productions and 500 performances, the Minnesota Fringe Festival turns low-budget theater into a two-week marathon

Ich Bin ein Berliner

With roughly 100 productions and 500 performances, the Minnesota Fringe Festival turns low-budget theater into a two-week marathon

Safety in Numbers

Nymphomaniacal roommates! Meta-Willy Lomans! Dancing Canadians! City Pages reports from the biggest, baddest Minnesota Fringe Festival to date