Brian Baumgartner

Shakespeare Machine

Dominique Serrand designs a laughing apparatus for the Guthrie

The Year in Theater

Immodest Proposal

With buckets of water and monstrous babies, Jeune Lune turns Gulliver's Travels into a woolly trip

Against the Universe

Heckler protests the insult of existence; The Death of Bessie Smith presents Nurse Ratched's less gentle twin

Fools Rush In

Clowning through Gogol at Jeune Lune; blustering through horror at the Fitzgerald

Naughty By Nature

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

No Country for Young Men

Conor McPherson and Eugene O'Neill spin rueful tales to lost youth

Make War, Not Love

The Guthrie Lab's Lysistrata withholds the loving that launched a thousand ships; Hidden Theatre's The Dying Gaul wields sex as a weapon

Age of Innocence

Silent Treatment

Natural High

You are the wind beneath my wings: Otto Lilienthal (Brian Baumgartner), a German flight pioneer, inspires the Wright brothers in Hidden Theatre's Disturbed by the Wind.

Dramatis Personae

My Dinner With Libby

All Tomorrow's Parties: Annelise Christ waits for company in the Hidden Theatre's Blue Window.

Hide and Go Seek

Hidden Theatre waits to be discovered

Despicable Truths

Bewitched

Down On The Farm

Opera among the silos of outstate Minnesota, and a new staging of Steinbeck's grim classic.

Deep Thoughts