Theater Reviews

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Playwrights' Center 40th Anniversary Celebration: No Work, All Play

Atmosphere's Welcome to Minnesota Tour at First Avenue, 2/22/12

Photo by Ryan Siverson​Welcome to Minnesota TourWith Atmosphere, Kill The Vultures, Big Quarters, MaLLy and BK-OneFirst Avenue Mainroom, MinneapolisWednesday, February 22, 2012View a slideshow from the concert here.Last night, Atmosphere brought the second annual Welcome to Minnesota tour to the p ... More >>

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 >>

Frank Turner & the Sleeping Souls

​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 >>

Hunter Gatherers

​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 >>

To Kill a Mockingbird

Park Square Theatre

Song of Extinction

Park Square Theatre

Sleeping in the Aviary

Park Square Theatre

A Christmas Story at the CTC serves up heaps of holiday memories

Ralphie and his bunny costume continue to amuse us

The Santaland Diaries

Ralphie and his bunny costume continue to amuse us

Nathan Keepers is 'Fully Committed' at the Jungle

Photo by Ann Marsden​Eight years ago, a 22-year-old Nathan Keepers auditioned for a play at the Jungle Theater that he'd never even heard of. The one-man tour de force turned it into a hit, and now he is back for another run of Fully Committed. In Becky Mode's play Keepers plays Sam, an out ... More >>

City Pages has a new theater critic

​City Pages is pleased to announce that arts and entertainment writer Ed Huyck has joined our cast in the role of theater critic. He is charged with the enviable but daunting task of covering one of the most vibrant theater cultures in America, a scene that includes more than 100 performing ar ... More >>

Quinton Skinner says farewell to City Pages

A sad curtain call as Skinner embarks on new journey

Interpol at First Avenue, 8/14/10

​InterpolAugust 14, 2010First AvenueThey looked a little bit different this time, but there was no mistaking it: Interpol are still Interpol. After now-former bassist (and by far the most recognizable band member) Carlos D quietly exited stage left this past May, it was a little unclear how that v ... More >>

Minnesota Fringe Festival 2010: 169 shows and even more ambition

Preview before you go

Movies & Music in Loring Park on hiatus for 2010

​We just received an update from the Walker Art Center announcing its summer events, and the release came with this surprising twist: "Due to the density of programming being organized by the Walker, Music & Movies in Loring Park will take a hiatus this summer." For those who live near Loring ... More >>

MN Fashion Week: Scenes From Alice in Wonderland

​We just received an update from the Walker Art Center announcing its summer events, and the release came with this surprising twist: "Due to the density of programming being organized by the Walker, Music & Movies in Loring Park will take a hiatus this summer." For those who live near Loring ... More >>

Rory Scovel

​We just received an update from the Walker Art Center announcing its summer events, and the release came with this surprising twist: "Due to the density of programming being organized by the Walker, Music & Movies in Loring Park will take a hiatus this summer." For those who live near Loring ... More >>

The Romance of Magno Rubio

​We just received an update from the Walker Art Center announcing its summer events, and the release came with this surprising twist: "Due to the density of programming being organized by the Walker, Music & Movies in Loring Park will take a hiatus this summer." For those who live near Loring ... More >>

Fringe Festival 2009: Robots, penguins, and bodily urges

Minneapolis tradition serves up 11 days packed with theater performances: Get your reviews here

Squawk

Minneapolis tradition serves up 11 days packed with theater performances: Get your reviews here

Playwrights' Center Reading: The Three Christs of Yspilanti

Minneapolis tradition serves up 11 days packed with theater performances: Get your reviews here

Spring Awakening opens at Orpheum; crowd wowed, confused

Pen Pals: Tony Kushner

archy and mehitabel, life in lower case

Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill

Open Mic Night

Cake, Roller Skates, and All-American Chaos

Bobrauschen-bergamerica messes with convention

Small Confederacy of Dancers

Lisa D'Amour exhumes eccentric New Orleans sister act

The Year in Theater

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

War of the Worlds

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

End of the Affair

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

The Clock Runs Backward

With scripts by Kevin Kling and Lee Blessing, the Illusion and Guthrie Theaters go forward into the past

Rinky Dink

A dopey plot sinks Theatre Latté Da's roller-skating musical

"Don't Ever Say (EXPLETIVE DELETED) Onstage Again!"

Audiences storm the stage. Actors suffer gastrointestinal distress. Backstage confessions of theater gone terribly, terribly wrong.

Body Double

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

The Bosom of Abraham

Ethiopian Jews return to the Promised Land at the Mixed Blood; Leopold and Loeb kill again at the Actors Theater of Minnesota

The Adventures of Kira Obolensky

The author of the Adventures of Herculina may have stumbled upon her career, but the results are anything but awkward

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

Exciting Foreplay

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

A Hero's Welcome

Ajax scours the body politic in search of a conscience; The Chairs discovers the seat of all meaninglessness

Merry XXXmas

With her comic new play, Minneapolis writer Bridget Carpenter gives new meaning to the term "Blue Christmas"

Back in Black

Thirty-four years ago, LeRoi Jones's Dutchman sent American race relations careening on a New York subway. Where's the end of the line?

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.

Double Take

Being black and gay is seen by some as double . But playwright Djola Branner disputes that notion, And his play, Homos in the House, which premieres this month, shows how such attitudes create stigma, erect barriers, and inhibit HIV/AIDS prevention

Declaration of Independence

Theatre de la Jeune Lune's The Pursuit of Happiness is a trip to the dark side of the moon.

THEATER OF THE ABSURD

Theatre de la Jeune Lune's The Pursuit of Happiness is a trip to the dark side of the moon.

Quietly Riotous

Theatre de la Jeune Lune's The Pursuit of Happiness is a trip to the dark side of the moon.