Bain Boehlke

In the Next Room

Waiting for Godot is a pleasure

Jungle finds heart in this thrilling production

Dial M for Murder

The Jungle Theater

Dial M for Murder

The Jungle Theater

Hamlet at Jungle Theater

A high-tech spin on the classic tale

Hamlet

A high-tech spin on the classic tale

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum at Jungle Theater

Frantic action and delightful songs make up for flat characters

Shirley Valentine

Jungle Theater

Ivey Awards 2010: worthy recipients, few surprises

by Michal DanielYoung love, rustic-style: Sam Bardwell and Alayne Hopkins in "Mary's Wedding"​The 2010 Ivey Awards went down last night at the State Theatre. The show was a well-oiled machine from its inception six years ago, and Monday night's presentation did not stray from the blueprint: award ... More >>

Jungle Theater's "Glass Menagerie" is a zoo of quiet horrors

by Michal DanielA flickering flame: Wendy Lehr and Alayne Hopkins in "The Glass Menagerie"​There are some works of art that tend to get thrown at us, if not too early, at least too early for us to understand their full resonance. You can read The Great Gatsby when you're 14, but you'll only grasp ... More >>

"Complete Sonnets Festival" brings out the all-stars

Crist Ballas/Zach CurtisActually, her eyes are somewhat like the sun . . . ​We're a week out from Classical Actors Ensemble's The Complete Sonnets Festival at Intermedia Arts, but this could turn out to be a hot ticket. All 154 of Shakespeare's sonnets will be performed, in one form or a ... More >>

Twin cities arts buzz: Meet the creatives and their productions

Crist Ballas/Zach CurtisActually, her eyes are somewhat like the sun . . . ​We're a week out from Classical Actors Ensemble's The Complete Sonnets Festival at Intermedia Arts, but this could turn out to be a hot ticket. All 154 of Shakespeare's sonnets will be performed, in one form or a ... More >>

Twin cities arts buzz: Meet the creatives and their productions

Inside: Jungle Theater, Trylon microcinema, Chris Baker, and Solo 1x2

The Year's Best Set Designs

Inside: Jungle Theater, Trylon microcinema, Chris Baker, and Solo 1x2

Mamet's A Life in the Theatre reveals drama

The Jungle explores the teacher-protégé relationship

Theater Spotlight: The Gin Game

The Jungle explores the teacher-protégé relationship

Flight Risk

What if Swan Lake landed in a Nebraska ranch home?

Spotlight: Last of the Boys

At the Jungle Theater through October 1

Life is, Like, Totally Profound, Dude

You, too, can have a cosmic body in just 60 minutes!

Spotlight: Same Time, Next Year

You, too, can have a cosmic body in just 60 minutes!

Ivey Awards take place, no casualties reported

You, too, can have a cosmic body in just 60 minutes!

Tall Cool One

How laconic everyman Terry Hempleman became a top leading man of Twin Cities theater

Dangling Modifier

Copy-editor drama needs some revisions

Homewrecker

In the Jungle's hands, Joe Orton still induces squirming

Sex, Death, and the Struggle to Stay Awake

Making whoopee at the Jungle and Off-Leash Area

Nonlinear Drama

Bain Boehlke's meander from teenage barn-theater impresario to middle-aged drifter to Jungle Theater visionary

Honour at the Jungle Theater

THEATER HIGHLIGHT:

Surrender To Santa

In praise of two not-quite Christmas shows

Garbage House Beautiful

The Jungle uncovers Harlem pack rats in Richard Greenberg play

Psychotic Reaction

'The Young Machines' manufactures a freak-out; 'The Perfect Crime' is guilty of silliness

Spy Vs. Spy

The Jungle mounts a drama of identity flips and bathhouse swaps

Baby Please Don't Go

Former Minnesotans Say the Twin Cities Cultural Scene Is Insular. Insecure. Unprofitable. Out of Touch. What Does It Mean to Live in an Artists' Paradise If Everyone Wants to Leave?

End of the Affair

Former Minnesotans Say the Twin Cities Cultural Scene Is Insular. Insecure. Unprofitable. Out of Touch. What Does It Mean to Live in an Artists' Paradise If Everyone Wants to Leave?

You Light Up My Life

Moody illumination is the bright spot of the 'The Blue Room'

Torn Between Two Lovers

What Do You Get When You Combine a Sailor, a Mortician, and a Pregnant Teen?

The Remains of the Day

Buffy Sedlachek's Tamarack combs a crime scene for clues into human nature

The Year in Theater

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

Estrangers in the Night

Pavilion sends a former couple to their high school reunion; The Big Hoover breaches the dam of failed romances

Disembodied Voice

Samuel Beckett's Happy Days returns to the Jungle Theater

L.A. Story

The Jungle Theater's Silver Lake skewers the lot of the self-hating screenwriter

Dramatis Personae

The Jungle Theater's Silver Lake skewers the lot of the self-hating screenwriter

Home and the World

The Jungle portrays the scope of a small town; Pangea searches for the self in a faraway land

American Pastoral

William Inge's Picnic labors over misdemeanors of the heart

Gross Indecency

The Jungle heaves, Frank Theatre shudders, Outward Spiral recoils

Fair Is Foul

Macbeth struts and frets its hours upon the stage; Largo Desolato makes Big Brother one of the family

Touch of Evil

Three is the (un)lucky number: Margot and Tony Wendice (Suzanne Koepplinger, J.C. Cutler) welcome Max Halliday (Terry Hempleman) into their unhappy home in Dial 'M' for Murder.

Kate Sullivan's Top/Bottom Five for 1997

Three is the (un)lucky number: Margot and Tony Wendice (Suzanne Koepplinger, J.C. Cutler) welcome Max Halliday (Terry Hempleman) into their unhappy home in Dial 'M' for Murder.

Darwin, Reconsidered

Beach Blanket Gecko: Nancy Plank, Paul Boesing, and Stephen D'Ambrose in Edward Albee's Seascape

Shock Resistant

Beach Blanket Gecko: Nancy Plank, Paul Boesing, and Stephen D'Ambrose in Edward Albee's Seascape

Alone Again, Naturally

Beach Blanket Gecko: Nancy Plank, Paul Boesing, and Stephen D'Ambrose in Edward Albee's Seascape