The Way Of Water by Frank Theatre performing at the Playwrights Center
Even in the best of times, the characters in Caridad Svich‘s intense The Way Of Water (Frank Theatre performing at the Playwrights Center, through September 30) lead a close-to-the-bone life: living in shacks, enduring the choking humidity of southern Louisiana,…
The Brothers Size by Pillsbury House Theatre performing in the Guthrie’s Dowling Studio
Tarell Alvin McCraney‘s The Brothers Size (a Pillsbury House Theatre and The Mount Curve Company co-production, performing in the Guthrie‘s Dowling Studio, through September 29) is, on a superficial level, a troubled-young-brother drama. Oshoosi Size, recently released from the penitentiary,…
Photo Set: MN Music-on-a-Stick, MN State Fair Grandstand, 8/31/12
Photo Set: Dawes at the MN State Fair Bandshell, 8/23 and 8/24/12
Waiting For Godot at the Jungle Theater
Lord preserve Samuel Beckett (and Harold Pinter, and Eugene Ionesco and Edward Albee, et al) from the predations of literary theorists who have declared him “important,” a practitioner of something called, airily, “theater of the absurd,” a playwright with deep…
King Idomeneo, Mixed Precipitation’s Picnic Operetta
Mixed Precipitation returns for a fourth season with opera outdoors, paired with snacks and set in a community garden. It’s about music, theater, community, sustainable food production and eating locally—and simply delightful entertainment. The annual production is masterminded by one…