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Month: April 2013
A Streetcar Named Desire by Ten Thousand Things Theater
“I don’t want realism,” Blanche DuBois cries in A Streetcar Named Desire (Ten Thousand Things Theater, various venues, through May 26), “I want magic!” The great Tennessee Williams serves up juicy dollops of both in this play. Streetcar celebrates eroticism,…
Photo Set: Trampled by Turtles with The Pines at First Avenue, 4/18/13
Nice Fish at the Guthrie Theater
It’s April, it’s still snowing, and The Guthrie Theater launches a show about ice fishing. What are the chances? The forces of nature, the theater muses and Fate itself must have all played supporting roles. But the theater  also patiently…
Gross Indecency: The Three Trials Of Oscar Wilde, by Walking Shadow Theatre Company performing at the Theatre Garage
Actor Craig Johnson‘s layered, knowing, subtle and intelligent portrayal of Oscar Wilde is by far the best reason to see Gross Indecency: The Three Trials Of Oscar Wilde (Walking Shadow performing at the Minneapolis Theatre Garage, through May 4). Gross…
Lorca In A Green Dress, a co-production of Teatro del Pueblo and Pangea World Theater, performing at the Ritz
The great Spanish poet and playwright Federico GarcÃa Lorca died a nasty and sordid death: murdered by homophobic fascists, alongside a road, at night, his bullet-riddled body flung into an anonymous mass grave. It is the achievement – and it…
Misterman by Frank Theatre performing at the Southern
If you missed John Catron‘s intensely silly, hootingly funny and utterly astonishing work in The Winter’s Tale at the Flying G a few seasons back, you should endeavor to journey back in time and check it out. Failing that, you…
In the Time of Butterflies at Mixed Blood Theatre
Mixed Blood Theatre brings another adaptation by Caridad Svich with the world premiere of In the Time of Butterflies (En El Tiempo De Las Mariposas). Produced by artistic director Jack Reuler and directed by José Zayas, it is an engaging…
Flashdance at the Orpheum Theater
The Hennepin Theatre Trust continues to do its part in bringing Broadway-bound new shows to Minneapolis audiences. Minnesota did its part by filling the seats with fans who may have come of age with its movie namesake. Flashdance the Musical…