To be present at the opening night performance of a play’s world premiere on a major Twin Cities stage is like experiencing the world through the eyes of a child, everything is new. So it was for a nearly sold…
Author: Mari Wittenbreer
Home Sweet Home at the Guthrie Theater
Why do some plays falter by being too preachy and earnest while others with similar loads of heartfelt information and a clear agenda take flight? Home Street Home, currently in a short run at in the Guthrie Theatre complex, is…
The Children at Pillsbury House Theater
Michael Elaynow’s The Children at Pillsbury House Theatre (through Oct 16), a retelling of Euripides’ Medea, is set in modern times with time travel elements enabling ancient Corinthians and Americans to inhabit the stage together. If you go, be sure to arrive…
The Tempest by Shakespeare & Company
There are some fine places to see William Shakespeare’s plays presented outdoors each summer and one of the best is on White Bear Lake’s Century College campus where Shakespeare & Company has been performing for more than 40 summer seasons.…
Le Switch at the Jungle Theater
What is so rare as a full moon in June on a perfect Minnesota evening? It may be a perfect little romantic comedy. The rom-com genre, so over worked by Hollywood that even they have mostly abandoned it, is now…
Trouble In Mind at the Guthrie Theater
“Justify!†demands the fictional director in Alice Childress’ Trouble in Mind a play-within-a–play drama now at the Guthrie, through June 5. “Justify,†spits back Wiletta in the second act as she struggles with the need to keep her acting job…
Constellations at the Jungle Theater
There is plenty of stellar talent on display at Jungle Theater in their new production of Constellations (playing at the Jungle through May 29) by British playwright Nick Payne. Payne is just over 30 and has had praise worthy productions on…
Bullets Over Broadway The Musical at the Ordway
Woody Allen’s 1994 film Bullet’s Over Broadway, refashioned as Bullets Over Broadway the Musical opened on Tuesday for a one week run at St Paul’s Ordway Center. The film garnered a bucket-full of major award nominations for direction and screenplay.…
Beauty And The Beast at Chanhassen Dinner Theatre
Beauty and the Beast is a story not quite as old as time. Unlike most fairy tales we know when it was written, who wrote it, and why: in 1740, by Mlle Barbot de Villeneuve as an adult entertainment for…
DJ Latinidad’s Latino Dance Party at Mixed Blood Theatre
There are time-honored ways of celebrating the return of spring in Minnesota: the St Patrick’s Day parade; the Twins opener; and firing up the BBQ. This year add another to the list: DJ Latinidad’s Latino Dance Party at Mixed Blood…