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Month: June 2014
Photo Set: Rufus Wainwright with Lucy Wainwright Roche at Music in the Zoo, 6/24/14
Photo Set: Rock the Garden, 6/22/14
The Heiress at the Jungle Theater
Money. It corrupts, perverts and, ultimately, kills. Can love survive money? The Heiress (at the Jungle Theater, through August 10) rather disturbingly concludes that it cannot. Thank God I don’t have any. But The Heiress (written 1947 by Ruth and…
Ghost: the Musical presented by the Hennepin Theater Trust at the Orpheum Theater
The Hennepin Theater Trust brings a new Broadway production of a successful and acclaimed film, reincarnated for live theater as “Ghost: the Musical.†If you’d love to see just what technical marvels are possible on the live stage, this is…
Berlin To Broadway With Kurt Weill by Skylark Opera
Among the pleasures – there are many – of Skylark Opera‘s lovely Berlin To Broadway With Kurt Weill (at Concordia’s E.M. Pearson Theatre through June 21) is the nifty comparison it provides between Weill’s gritty and soaring European music with…
Don Pasquale, produced by Lyric Opera of the North (LOON) in Duluth
Twin Citieans are regular visitors to Duluth, escaping to the shores of Lake Superior, cooled by the big lake, maybe in search of a semi-wilderness experience “up the shore,†accompanied by fresh fish and fine local brews. I can give…
Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson by Minneapolis Musical Theatre, performing at the New Century Theatre
Andrew Jackson, our seventh President, was a nasty piece of work. A westerner (from the frontier state of Tennessee), Jackson owned slaves, gleefully massacred native Americans, slew men in duels, bigamously married his wife, battled his way to the Presidency,…
