Stephen D'Ambrose

King Lear

Noises Off! at Jungle Theater: Comic brilliance

Director Joel Sass and cast take on one of the funniest plays ever written—and deliver

Noises Off!

Director Joel Sass and cast take on one of the funniest plays ever written—and deliver

Panic at Park Square Theatre

Hitchockian thriller could learn from the master

Life's a Dream at Ten Thousand Things Theater

17th-century drama full of powerful acting

More Film Reviews

17th-century drama full of powerful acting

Hamlet Never Slayed an Orc

Q: What do you get when you cross a celebrated Guthrie actor with the Renaissance Festival? A: The MN indie film 'Midnight Chronicles'

Willy, Günter, Helmut, and Horst

The Great Game of the 20th century didn't take place at a hair salon

Curtain Call

Let's bring back the year's best (and worst) performances for one more round of applause (and jeers)

That '70s Show

What do you call the hangover from a national hangover?

The Squealer

How to rat out your wife to the secret police

Spotlight: A Tale of Two Cities

How to rat out your wife to the secret police

The Year in Theater

The Greeks, the geeks, the freaks, the dualistic representations of the Argentine distaff underclass--all the best of Twin Cities drama circa 2005

The Constantly Talking Groundskeeper

Stephen D'Ambrose stars as an ex-preacher caught in a Jobian struggle

Nonlinear Drama

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

The Year in Theater

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

Garbage House Beautiful

The Jungle uncovers Harlem pack rats in Richard Greenberg play

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.

War of the Worlds

Kent Stephens's latest project is a play about a play about a rehearsal of a play about a novel

Service With A Smile

Incestuous maids go on a killing spree; a nuclear physicist stands by the fatherland

King Lear

Incestuous maids go on a killing spree; a nuclear physicist stands by the fatherland

The Year in Theater

Incestuous maids go on a killing spree; a nuclear physicist stands by the fatherland

Torn Between Two Lovers

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

Body Double

Park Square's Communicating Doors showcases three dead women, one hotel room, and a publicist with a journalist doppelgänger

Musical Minimalism

Michelle Hensley takes a bit of Broadway to the workhouse

Best of the Twin Cities: The Winners

Michelle Hensley takes a bit of Broadway to the workhouse

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

Look Who's Coming to Dinner

Chez Pierre serves a feast of comic clowning; Leitmotif's cast makes the most of dramatic table scraps

A Century of Suffering

Revisiting the AIDS crisis with Angels in America; remembering Anne Frank as a universal optimist

Dramatis Personae

Revisiting the AIDS crisis with Angels in America; remembering Anne Frank as a universal optimist

Gross Indecency

The Jungle heaves, Frank Theatre shudders, Outward Spiral recoils

Dramatis Personae

The Jungle heaves, Frank Theatre shudders, Outward Spiral recoils

Kate Sullivan's Top/Bottom Five for 1997

The Jungle heaves, Frank Theatre shudders, Outward Spiral recoils

Darwin, Reconsidered

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