Category: Reviews
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Three Viewings at Illusion Theater
The Illusion Theater has returned to Jeffrey Hatcher’s Three Viewings, a play that received its first performance in Illusion’s Fresh Ink series and has since gone on to hundreds of performances all over the world. Set in a funeral home,…
Annie at the Children’s Theatre Company
Jumpin’ Jehosaphat, but those orphans are cute. Led by the inimitable Annie, belting out the uptempo “Maybe”, a niftily drawn 1930s NYC skyline looming in the background, the girls dance and mug winningly and by golly they steal our hearts. …
“Next Fall” at the Jungle Theater
The Jungle Theater’s spring offering deals with one of those issues that lurks on the fringes of our consciousness – except for those who live every day with the question, “What does it mean to be gay and Christian?†Next…
Photo set: Rogue Valley “False Floors” CD Release Party at The Varsity Theater
Man Of La Mancha by Ten Thousand Things Theater
When Ten Thousand Things applies their patented Poor Theater style to a musical warhorse – as they did with last year’s My Fair Lady and now do again with Man Of La Mancha (various venues; the public performances are at…
Stomp at the Ordway
The amazing Stomp (at the Ordway, through April 3) has rolled into St. Paul for a breathless one week run. Created way back in 1991, the show has enjoyed lengthy runs in London, New York, Sydney, Rio, San Francisco, Athens,…
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…
Arms And The Man at the Guthrie Theater
In Arms And The Man (on the Guthrie‘s McGuire Stage, through May 8 ) George Bernard Shaw hides deep cynicism in plain sight, behind a veneer of flashy dialogue, sweet romance, giddy farce, lovable preening upperclass characters. We laugh, get…