Zach Curtis

The 39 Steps

Deadwood: The Last Bleeping Episode at the Bryant Lake Bowl

Joesph Scrimshaw parodies the TV western

Bloomington Civic Theatre's "Prisoner" having a perpetually rotten summer

The city has been likened to a zoo . . . ​Mel Edison is having a very bad time. He's middle-aged, he's just lost his job, and his New York City is suffering under a heat wave. That's not all: there's a garbage strike, and weird noises rising from the streets and nearby apartments. When the apartme ... More >>

The Full Monty at the Ordway bares the naked truth

Men's insecurities uncovered with warm humor

Crime doesn't play: Two new shows examine criminal justice

The Jury and Killer Joe show murder through different lenses

Theater Spotlight: Metamorphoses

The Jury and Killer Joe show murder through different lenses

Metamorphoses

The Jury and Killer Joe show murder through different lenses

Of Mice and Men

The Jury and Killer Joe show murder through different lenses

Spotlight: A Thousand Clowns

The Jury and Killer Joe show murder through different lenses

Curtain Call

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

Requiem for a Heavyweight

Mixed Blood Theatre through October 7

Spotlight: Debbie Does Dallas the Musical

Ooh, it's such a big, big porno play

Ivey Awards take place, no casualties reported

Ooh, it's such a big, big porno play

Stop The Presses

'His Girl Friday' has charm, but doesn't deliver

Spotlight: His Girl Friday

Headline writer succumbs to "Extra! Extra!" cliché in advertising "Front Page" preview

Spotlight: Richard III

Shakespearean meanie gets the stripped-down treatment at the Loading Dock

In the Dugout, Out of the Closet

'Take Me Out' tackles big-league homophobia

The Year in Theater

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

Damn Dirty Apes

Evolving Penguin brings intelligent design to 'Inherit the Wind'

Three Times a Ladykiller

Joking Apart nails Ayckbourn's 'Norman Conquests'

White Light, White Heat

Angry caucasians and fallen ladies never go out of style

Code Pink

Has playwright Ari Hoptman revived the red menace?

The Roof Is On Fire

Tennessee Williams's directions on burning down the house

Curtain Call

Remembering Playwright Todd Irvine; Praising Actor Edwin Strout

The Clock Runs Backward

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

Together

A Small Cadre of Theater Artists Prove the Value of Company

The Year in Theater

A Small Cadre of Theater Artists Prove the Value of Company

The Crash?

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

Kentucky Fried Theater

The Laramie Project takes a tragic American hate crime to the edge of parody

The Trouper

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

Jesus' Wife

Bald Alice stages the gospels as a kung fu-filled epic; Penumbra looks at an unlikely love

The Year in Theater

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

Send in the Clowns

The Great Americ'n Play satirizes huge corporations and hand puppets; The Insatiate Countess gives a nymphomaniac a second chance

Indie 500

With roughly 100 productions and 500 performances, the Minnesota Fringe Festival turns low-budget theater into a two-week marathon

Two's a Crowd

Local exhibitionists throw a party of one in Intermedia Arts' "Absolute Originals"

In a Gadda Da Vida

Outward Spiral's queer Creation; Park Square's suffering sisters

Safety in Numbers

Nymphomaniacal roommates! Meta-Willy Lomans! Dancing Canadians! City Pages reports from the biggest, baddest Minnesota Fringe Festival to date

Setting the Scene

Nymphomaniacal roommates! Meta-Willy Lomans! Dancing Canadians! City Pages reports from the biggest, baddest Minnesota Fringe Festival to date

Gross Indecency

The Jungle heaves, Frank Theatre shudders, Outward Spiral recoils

Age of Innocence

The Jungle heaves, Frank Theatre shudders, Outward Spiral recoils

Funny Business

In the growing local improv scene, everyone's a comedian

Birth, School, Work, Death

In the growing local improv scene, everyone's a comedian

The Last Talley

Attention Ragstock Shoppers: '70s styling in Lanford Wilson's Fifth of July