Park Square Theatre, in association with Carlyle Brown & Company, has premiered a new play by Carlyle Brown, taking Park Square down an adventurous path. A commissioned piece by the theater, American Family explores the idea of a mixed-race marriage…
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Kingdom Undone at the Southern Theater
Kingdom Undone (Southern Theater, through April 8, 2012) tells the story of the passion of Christ. Ostensibly looking to celebrate Passover, Jesus makes his entrance into a Jerusalem awash in revolutionary fervor. Zealots appear quite willing to employ terrorism in…
Edith Can Shoot Things And Hit Them by Mu Performing Arts, at Mixed Blood Theatre
Edith Can Shoot Things And Hit Them (Mu Performing Arts, performing at Mixed Blood Theatre, through April 1) wants to be a movie. Much of what we hear about in A. Rey Pamatmat‘s play – Edith’s armed “securing the perimeter”…
Hay Fever at the Guthrie Theater
Hay Fever (at the Guthrie, through April 22) belongs to the designers. Enter the Wurtele Thrust and behold – “Wow.” – Janet Bird‘s sumptuous, perfectly painted, gorgeously lit (by Philip S. Rosenberg) set. Paintings compete with rough drawings and eccentric…
Memphis at the Ordway
Beale Street. Few places figure so centrally in American musical culture. A case could be made for Congo Square in New Orleans, for the now-disappeared jazz clubs along 52nd Street, Laurel Canyon in the 1960s, the Grand Ole Opry. But…
T Bone N Weasel at Theatre Pro Rata, performing at the Gremlin
T Bone N Weasel (Theatre Pro Rata, through March 18, performing at the Gremlin Theatre) is showing its age. First produced in 1986 (and dozens of times since), playwright Jon Klein‘s endlessly amusing tale of the two hapless doofuses bouncing…
While you’re in town, let’s record a single
Broadway touring shows can settle in and enjoy a long run in places like L.A. and Chicago, but in Minneapolis the routine is often “open on a Tuesday and close on Sunday.â€Â Just long enough to record a single. In…
The Birds at the Guthrie Theater, Dowling Studio Theater
The Guthrie Theater has opened a tantalizing little show, familiar in name due to its famous film counterpart. “The Birds†by Conor McPherson is based on a post W.W. II novelette by Daphne du Maurier, and bears only a passing…
Talley’s Folly at Workhouse Theatre Co.
Talley’s Folly (Workhouse Theatre Co., through March 11) is the late and greatly lamented (he died not quite a year ago) Lanford Wilson‘s most-performed play. In part, the reason for this is practical: Talley’s Folly is a two-hander, featuring two…
Beautiful Thing produced by Theater Latte Da at The Lab Theater
Theater Latté Da has stepped to the edges of its musical milieu with the local premier of Beautiful Thing by Jonathan Harvey, with Playwrights’ Center artistic director, Jeremy B. Cohen, making his local directing debut. It’s a wonderfully entertaining play…