Musicals

Flashdance — The Musical

Five Minnesota movies from the '90s that would make marvelous musicals

Last week, Disney Studios announced its classic 1992 animated film Aladdin will be making its Broadway debut in 2014. While Disney produced several home runs on stage, the potential nostalgia factor this has for '90s kids is absolutely off the charts. Why let Disney have all the fun when the '90s pr ... More >>

Les Misérables doesn't dream daringly

The latest screen adaptation mostly plays it safe while trying to be gritty and realistic

Company

Zombie Pub Crawl

My Mother's Lesbian Jewish Wiccan Wedding

Revival of the hit winter play still good as ever

Company

Roman Holiday

Ragtime

Character in Costume: A Jack Edwards Retrospective

The year in theater: a deeper look

​The last year was the kind that made me glad to be a theater critic in such a thriving community. So much so that the annual top 10 list barely scratched the surface of the high quality shows on display on Twin Cities stages during the last 12 months. So, for a slightly deeper look, here are the ... More >>

Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella

Bat Boy: The Musical

The 25th Annual Putnam Spelling Bee at the Ordway Center

Uncovering the secret terrors of being a brainiac

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

West Side Story

H.M.S. Pinafore at the Guthrie

Welcome to the high seas!

Guys and Dolls

Next To Normal

Man of La Mancha

Ten Thousand Things

Billy Elliot

'Spring Awakening' returns for weekend run

Photo by Joan Marcus​Spring Awakening, the thundering rock musical about adolescent angst in 19th-century Germany, returns for a quick two-day run over the weekend at the Orpheum Theatre. It's certainly worth a look for theater lovers who have missed it up to now and fans will certainly del ... More >>

Evil Dead: The Musical at Illusion Theatre

Blood, gore, and catchy tunes

Twin Cities theater this weekend is all about the musical

by Lauren B. PhotographyThe cast of "Always & Forever" say it with a song​It's a busy weekend, particularly considering the fact that we're in the afterglow of the Fringe, when local stages tend to be dark and theatrical options fewer than the usual dizzying gamut. As fate would have it, we're ... More >>

Stephen Sondheim: A Life in the Theatre

Violet

Caroline, or Change, still dazzles at the Guthrie

"Caroline, or Change" is still playing at the Guthrie, and if you haven't seen it yet -- GO! It's absolutely beautiful.

Spring Awakening opens at Orpheum; crowd wowed, confused

Red Wing says no way to "Rent" high school performance

A Guide to the 2008 Fringe Festival

Underpants, Shakespeare, and Giant Squirrels

Fringe by Numbers: Creators of Great American Horror Movie Musical Not Too Scary

RENT at the Ordway

Sweeney Todd

Raw Stages 2008

Tim Burton's gorgeously gruesome Sweeney Todd

Film Highlight: Romance & Cigarettes

Jerry Springer--The Opera

From The Cradle To The Grave--And Back Again

Frank revives a labor cry, 'The Cradle Will Rock'; 'Urinetown' whizzes through town

Boy Genius!

'The Seagull' and 'Tick, Tick...Boom!' examine the art of being an artist

Thanks For The Memories

'Wings' plumbs wordlessness; Pillsbury House roams the wasteland

Playing to Plymouth

A comedy troops through middle America

Loony Tunes

Strange musicals about black birds and black skin

Musical Minimalism

Michelle Hensley takes a bit of Broadway to the workhouse

Gold Diggers of 2000

Actor-director Kenneth Branagh enters his Love's Labour's Lost in this year's musical movie sweepstakes

Song and Dance

Crime pays in The Gangster Musical; romance founders in Adventures in Love

Trading Places

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

Daily Bread, Humble Pie

Theatre de la Jeune Lune's The Golem shapes a feast from clay; Guthrie Lab's Sweeney Todd makes mincemeat of paupers

The Nose Nobody Knows

QUEERING RENT

Sarah Schulman: Author, witness

Street of Dreams