News flash! There’s a new theatrical dance company in town and it’s the real McCoy: topnotch dance talent, a live band onstage and a sweet story to tell. Collide Theatrical Dance Company is just what the name suggests: a “collision 
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Mercy Unrelenting by Open Window Theatre
Alessandro Serenelli is a major league creep. Rage bubbles inside him like molten lead. He grunts and groans, unable to look anyone in the eye, unable even to stand up straight. His fury confounds him – and us. As a…
How to Be a Korean Woman at the Guthrie Theater’s Dowling Studio
How to be a Korean Woman, written and performed by Sun Mee Chomet, might have been a few chapters in a memoir, or at least a personal essay, but Chomet is first an actress. Also a dancer and a playwright.…
“Fool for Love” at The Jungle Theater
What? You’ve never seen a performance of “Fool for Love?†Well, neither had I, to be honest, and I was so pleased that The Jungle Theater chose it to open their season. If you are even mildly interested in classic,…
The Replacements at Riot Fest, Fort York, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
For me, growing up, there was lots of music, and especially lots of punk rock. I loved it all. I loved early and mid-80s DC and LA hardcore, UK82, crust, Swedish d-beat, ’77 English stuff. But the Big Question has…
Minnesota Fringe 2013
A sure sign of High Summer: the Fringe. Minnesota boasts one of the best and largest, with 175 shows playing in 16 separate venues, through August 11. Â The festival is, as you may know, uncurated. Â No one makes decisions or…
Les Misérables at the Orpheum Theatre
We’re going to make the crabby and dyspeptic Critic stand in the corner for this one.  Stay. Quiet. Ahem. The venerable and vaunted Les Mis has roared into town for a disappointingly short run at the Orpheum (the show closes…
“Pride & Prejudice” At The Guthrie
For almost the entirety of the first act (despite its flaws) The Guthrie Theater’s adaptation of “Pride and Prejudice” (written by Simon Reade, directed by Joe Dowling) is delightful. Â The swirl of scenery, the familiar faces in period costumes, the…
Camino Real by Girl Friday Productions, performing at the Minneapolis Theatre Garage
“I have three problems,” asserts Camino Real‘s Kilroy, in a lush and exuberant performance by Eric Knutson. “I’m hungry, I’m lonely, and I don’t know what this place is.” Camino Real (Girl Friday Productions, performing at the Minneapolis Theatre Garage,…
Sherlock Holmes And The Adventure Of The Suicide Club by Park Square Theatre
What’s the business of the Suicide Club? “Death,” stentorily intones Mr. George (in a terrific performance by James Cada), with equal parts grinning euphoria and stern reverence. Ah, yes. Sherlock Holmes And The Adventure Of The Suicide Club (at Park…