Every ten years or so someone decides to put some part of the bible on stage. The latest attempt is To Begin With by local playwright Jeffrey Hatcher (Hennepin Theatre Trust, performing in the old Wesley Church). Hatcher has taken…
Month: March 2017
Macbeth is The Bard, efficiently abridged
In Shakespeare’s tragedies, politics and fealty are thread with dark warnings of power’s corruptive force and the destructiveness of human hubris. This is never more true than in Macbeth, a story of greed, secret plotting, and murder at the highest…
Six Degrees Of Separation: highly recommended
First things first: Six Degrees Of Separation (Theater Latté Da performing at the newly purchased Ritz, through April 9) looks terrific. Yeoperson work has been by the crackerjack design team – Kate Sutton-Johnson (sets); Alice Frederickson (costumes); Barry Browning (lights).…
Grease: slick and entertaining
The Chanhassen Dinner Theatre‘s production of Grease is a funny, tightly performed show. Set in 1959, (book, music and lyrics by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey) Grease pairs a group of high school girls, more interested in boys and parties…
The Red Shoes mind-bends a classic
Open Eye Figure Theatre and Oddfellows Collective, a new theater entity formed of well-known local artists, most notably the play’s writer/director/designer Joel Sass and writer/performer Kimberly Richardson, have opened “The Red Shoes.†Although inspired by the Hans Christian Andersen…