Category: Archived
Photo Set: The Monkees at Music in the Zoo, 6/2/14
PlayLabs at the Playwrights Center
PlayLabs. There are many summertime play development conferences: Sundance, the New Harmony Conference, the Ojai Conference, Pacific Playwrights Conference, and (the granddaddy of them all) the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference. But PlayLabs is unique. It’s the only new play conference…
The Replacements at Riot Fest, Fort York, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
For me, growing up, there was lots of music, and especially lots of punk rock. I loved it all. I loved early and mid-80s DC and LA hardcore, UK82, crust, Swedish d-beat, ’77 English stuff. But the Big Question has…
It Is She Who I See by Interference Arts at the Ritz Theater
This is not exactly a review, but then “It Is She Who I See†is not exactly a play. I would like, however, to try to describe it to you because if you’re the sort of person whose interest is…
Standing On Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays. A co-production of Frank Theatre and the Hennepin Theatre Trust
Last night your intrepid HWTS theater reviewers, Janet Preus and John Olive, betook themselves to the spiffily spartan New Century Theatre to see Standing On Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays (a co-production between Frank Theatre and the Hennepin Theatre Trust,…
Photo Set: Of Monsters and Men with Lay Low at Fine Line 3/29/12
While you’re in town, let’s record a single
Broadway touring shows can settle in and enjoy a long run in places like L.A. and Chicago, but in Minneapolis the routine is often “open on a Tuesday and close on Sunday.â€Â Just long enough to record a single. In…
HowWasTheShow turns 10 on February 14th
10 years is a not such an insignificant chunk of time in the web world. Think of the web 10 years ago. No MySpace (founded 2003), no Facebook (founded 2004), no YouTube (founded 2005.) Imagine. But there was HowWasTheShow! HowWasTheShow’s…