Wendy Knox

2 Pianos 4 Hands and The Santaland Diaries

From musical stage dreams to becoming an elf, these favorites are worth another look

The Santaland Diaries

From musical stage dreams to becoming an elf, these favorites are worth another look

Standing on Ceremony pushes the gay-marriage hot button

Collection of short plays works best when it's personal, not political

Twin Cities' best plays of 2011

Hairspray, Doubt, On the Spectrum, and more

Crumpet is back at Frank Theatre for 'The Santaland Diaries'

​Since David Sedaris first read The Santaland Diaries on National Public Radio in 1992, the piece has become a part of many holiday traditions. With that in mind, it was inevitable that it would show up as a bit of counter-holiday programming in theaters (in an adaptation by Joe Mantello) as well. ... More >>

Ajax in Iraq

​Since David Sedaris first read The Santaland Diaries on National Public Radio in 1992, the piece has become a part of many holiday traditions. With that in mind, it was inevitable that it would show up as a bit of counter-holiday programming in theaters (in an adaptation by Joe Mantello) as well. ... More >>

Cabaret

​Since David Sedaris first read The Santaland Diaries on National Public Radio in 1992, the piece has become a part of many holiday traditions. With that in mind, it was inevitable that it would show up as a bit of counter-holiday programming in theaters (in an adaptation by Joe Mantello) as well. ... More >>

The Joans

​Since David Sedaris first read The Santaland Diaries on National Public Radio in 1992, the piece has become a part of many holiday traditions. With that in mind, it was inevitable that it would show up as a bit of counter-holiday programming in theaters (in an adaptation by Joe Mantello) as well. ... More >>

The Twin Cities' best theater productions of 2010

A year in review

The Santaland Diaries

Frank Theatre

The Santaland Diaries

Frank Theatre

Frank Theatre's Wendy Knox: Woman on a mission

Knox has a reputation for being honest and intense

City Pages Fall Arts issue is online

​ Throw out your summertime guides for the cities, our Fall Arts issue is hitting the streets as we speak. If you can't make it to the newsstands you can also read about interesting people and recommended events online right now (and throughout the season).

Jungle's "Glass Menagerie," Pillsbury House's "Vigil" kick off autumn in Twin Cities theater

Bathroom humor: "Sh!tlisted" at the BLB​Yes, some healthy mourning for the end of summer might well be in order, but the bitter pill is at least sweetened by a distinct sense that the theater season is picking up again. This weekend I'll be at Pillsbury House for Vigil and the Jungle for The Glass ... More >>

Frank Theatre's "Metamorphosis": The humor of nightmares

John Catron by Tony Nelson​When I reach Frank Theatre artistic director Wendy Knox on the phone this week, it's to discuss the adaptation of Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis opening this Friday at Open Eye Figure Theatre. Turns out, this day at least, Knox is tackling more than her directorial wor ... More >>

Palace of the End recounts the soul-killing effects of war

Frank Theatre production focuses on both victims and perpetrators

Vinegar Tom examines witches among us

The play about 17th-century repression has a modern-day message

The Hills Are Alive

But the Ordway's 'Sound of Music,' not so much

Twisted Tales

'The Pillowman' Is a Pitch-Black Comedy About the Desperate Stories We All Tell Ourselves

The Pillowman

'The Pillowman' Is a Pitch-Black Comedy About the Desperate Stories We All Tell Ourselves

Spotlight: The Exonerated

'The Pillowman' Is a Pitch-Black Comedy About the Desperate Stories We All Tell Ourselves

Curtain Call

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

Say Mommy!

Bertolt Brecht: War is a motherlover

The Ass End of History

Venus Hottentot and the anatomy of racism

Let the Mighty Eagle Soar

Shepherd's political drama conjures a cheesehead dystopia

Blues and the Abstract Truth

All the dirt (and blood and music) on Frank's Euripides hybrid

The Year in Theater

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

Red-Letter Play

An intense area premiere of Suzan-Lori Parks's 'Fucking A'

Hermaphrodite Bites Unicorn

Five hours of sicilian fables and two tons of recycled tires: Are you interested yet?

A Major Complex

Plans for the Sears building loom large (again)

From The Cradle To The Grave--And Back Again

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

Atom and Eve

The holocaust as taped tragedy; the atom bomb as marital ordeal

Witchy Women

Eye of the Storm adopts an oddball; Frank Theatre kills

The Crash?

The Directors Theater stages substantial one-acts to a flimsy audience; Idiot Box presents the comedy troupe's favorite reruns

The Trouper

How to win over critics and lose money, sleep, and ambition: A life in local theater

Old Times

Frank Theatre follows two friends to the odd side of Ontario; Dean J. Seal sorts through the scraps of his past

The Year in Theater

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

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

A Higher Plane

Two plays use high moral oratory as a vehicle for drama

Dramatis Personae

Two plays use high moral oratory as a vehicle for drama

Beggars and Losers

The Threepenny Opera counts the cost of human capital; Blues for an Alabama Sky clocks a red-hot minute

Gross Indecency

The Jungle heaves, Frank Theatre shudders, Outward Spiral recoils

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

What I Wouldn't Do For Money

Twin Cities artists draw the line

Money In, Art Out

Arts funding and the cost of free money

Russian Roulette

A makeshift "project" by Frank Theatre tries to catch the wry in Chekhov's short stories; a Mixed Blood comedy shows the stereotype in the TV sitcom--and the damage done.

Dramatis Personae

A makeshift "project" by Frank Theatre tries to catch the wry in Chekhov's short stories; a Mixed Blood comedy shows the stereotype in the TV sitcom--and the damage done.

The Bad Seed

The Bad Seed

Kevin Kling goes against his grain in The Education of Walter Kaufmann.

It Takes A Nation Of Millions

The Bad Seed

Kevin Kling goes against his grain in The Education of Walter Kaufmann.

Power Plays

The Bad Seed

Kevin Kling goes against his grain in The Education of Walter Kaufmann.