Here’s the March, 2010 CD Review podcast from HowWasTheShow. David de Young reports in from Kings Wine Bar in South Minneapolis with 10 brand new tracks for you, some of which have not yet seen the light of day in album format. This podcast’s voice drops were recorded entirely using the iPhone Voice Memo feature. The...
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The setup of Tracy Letts‘s wonderful August: Osage County (at the Ordway, through March 21, ordway.org) is familiar: the family patriarch has died under mysterious circumstances and his three daughters, the “agitated Weston sisters”, have arrived at the family manse in rural Oklahoma with their on-the-rocks marriages, their predatory fiancés, their marijuana-smoking daughters. They’re here...
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Attending an event at the Southern Theater feels like taking a step back in time. Layers of remodeling and redecorating, one imagines – along with its history – have been stripped down to the bare and imperfect brick walls and proscenium façade. In celebration of its 100th anniversary, the performance, too, takes us all...
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There are plenty of things to like about Alan Berks’ new play Music Lovers (March 12th-28th at the Playwrights’ Center in Minneapolis). The aphorism-laden and witty script will have you leaving the theater comparing memorable lines with your companions, and the music references strewn throughout the play will delight music fans, especially those steeped in...
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Iron Ring (on the Children’s Theatre Company mainstage, 2400 Third Ave, through April 10, childrenstheatre.org) adapted by Charles Way from a novel by the gifted Lloyd Alexander is a journey story in the grandly mythic Joseph Campbell tradition. Way (one of the best and best known writers of theater for young audiences) and director Peter...
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I arrived at the Patches & Gretchen Sugar Head Pie CD Release Party so early that the recently remodeled (yet again) Varsity Theater (it’s still not done, but it’s awesome – you must check out the bathrooms!) was still mostly empty. My promptness paid off, however, as at 8 p.m. sharp, Dan Israel took...
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The Wapsipinicon celebrated the release of their debut album San Geronimo with a CD Release Party at the Kitty Cat Klub Saturday night, and though I had heard the record and even seen the band perform live at least once in the past, I was unprepared for the energetic and powerful show I witnessed on...
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Those of us who regularly see both music and theater events in the Twin Cities know that the scenes overlap a lot more than people might suspect. Musical theater aside, as exemplified by the recent production of Rent which featuring Twin Cities Hip Hop and R&B artist Maria Isa and Far From Falling vocalist Harley Wood,...
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HowWasTheShow is proud to present Meredith Westin’s photo slide show from The SXSW Sendoff show at First Avenue on Saturday, March 6th, 2010. Photos in this set include Peter Wolf Crier, City on the Make, Jeremy Messersmith, Lookbook, The Pines, and Romantica.
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It was August of 2007 when I first stumbled across “Radio,” the obvious single from what was to become Ten Ton Bridge’s album Landfall, released February 27th with a CD Release Party at Sauce Spirits and Soundbar. “Radio” was so catchy it was still with me more than two years later when I finally...
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