10 years is a not such an insignificant chunk of time in the web world. Think of the web 10 years ago. No MySpace (founded 2003), no Facebook (founded 2004), no YouTube (founded 2005.) Imagine. But there was HowWasTheShow! HowWasTheShow’s…
Author: David de Young
Kaivama CD Release Party featuring Arto Järvelä at the Cedar Cultural Center
Seeing Finland’s Arto Järvelä and Minnesota’s Kaivama perform together at The Cedar Cultural Center in Minneapolis Friday night made me feel downright happy. For a musical performance to be a success, happiness need not be either the intention or the…
Photo Set: Kaivama CD Release with Arto Järvelä at the Cedar Cultural Center
The Year of Magical Thinking, a nimbus theatre Production
Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends. – Joan Didion “It will happen to you,†author Joan Didion (played by Barbara Berlovitz) says in the opening scene of Didion’s…
Heaven, a Flying Foot Forum production at the Guthrie Theater
In the 1990s during the War in Bosnia and Herzegovina, over 100,000 people were killed and more than 2 million people displaced in one of the most horrific set of human-inflicted tragedies since WWII. Heaven, a new work by Flying…
The Balcony by Jean Genet, a nimbus theatre production
Kicking off its 10th season, nimbus has christened a new permanent theater space at 1517 Central Avenue in Northeast Minneapolis with a spicy adaptation of Jean Genet’s controversial The Balcony (nimbus theater, February 11th through March 6th). A sign posted…
Black Prairie and Canasta at the 400 Bar
Wednesday’s bill at the 400 Bar featuring Portland, Oregon’s Black Prairie (members of the Decemberists and friends) and Chicago’s Canasta was more than enough to bring me out of music writer retirement. And I wasn’t disappointed. It turned out to…
Eclipsed, a Frank Theatre Production at the Playwrights’ Center
Eclipsed, the 2009 play by Obie Award-winning playwright Danai Gurira tells the story of an unlikely sisterhood of five women in civil war-torn Liberia. Frank Theatre’s regional premier of the work opened Friday at the Playwrights’ Center (2301 East Franklin…
Peter Wolf Crier CD Re-Release with Kill The Vultures at the Turf Club
Who would have thought a re-release party could be so much fun? Peter Wolf Crier, the duo of former Wars of 1812‘s frontman Peter Pisano and drummer Brian Moen, released their debut CD Inter-Be locally more than six months ago…
Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis, a Frank Theatre Production at Open Eye Figure Theatre
“Delightful†and “fun†aren’t the first two words that come to mind when one seeks to describe the literary legacy left by Franz Kafka.  But Frank Theatre’s narratively-faithful rendering of  the Bohemian writer’s 1915 novella The Metamorphosis — which opened…