“Dying is easy,” went the famous (and quite possibly apocryphal) last words of the famous actor. “Comedy is hard.” Indeed, and if you want to glean a sense of just how difficult stage comedy can be to pull off, check…
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“An Ideal Husband,” produced by Walking Shadow Theatre Company at Red Eye Theater
Walking Shadow Theatre Company doesn’t produce period plays, typically, but its artistic directors have had Oscar Wilde’s “An Ideal Husband†in the back of their minds for quite a while, I was told. They pulled it out at just the…
Slasher at Urban Samurai, performing at the Sabes Jewish Comunity Center
Slasher (Urban Samurai, performing at the Sabes Jewish Community Center, through Feb 18) would make a better movie. Playwright Allison Moore‘s premise is terrific: director Marc Hunter has cast Sheena as “the last girl” – the lead, in other words…
Dial M for Murder at the Jungle Theater
Welcome back to the days of civilized murder and mayhem, done with style by people who wear dinner jackets and sip brandy in an elegant gold-toned living room. This is the world recreated at the Jungle Theater for Frederick Knott’s…
End Of The Rainbow at the Guthrie Theater
To his credit, in End Of The Rainbow (at the Guthrie, through March 11) playwright Peter Quilter refuses to give us the “pretty” Judy Garland, the achingly luminous singer who wowed us in The Wizard Of Oz (age 17), A…
Ragtime, The Musical at Park Square Theatre
E. L. Doctorow was the author of two respected but not widely read novels when in 1975 he thundered onto the literary scene with Ragtime. Set 1902-17, the novel blends history and fantasy, private characters with oversized historical figures (J.P.…
Harold And The Purple Crayon at the Children’s Theatre Company
In Harold And The Purple Crayon (at Children’s Theatre Co, through Feb 26) a company of first rate artists and performers collaborate on a deceptively simple, sweetly accessible and yet highly sophisticated… Well, what would you call Harold? A play? …
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof at the Guthrie Theater
Tennessee Williams play, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, may be finally showing its age, but it is still timeless enough to pack a wallop. The Guthrie’s production, directed by Lisa Peterson, has placed this piece among tall, peacock blue…
1968 by the History Theatre at the History Center of Minnesota
Produced by the History Theatre at the Minnesota History Center, in tandem with the exhibit that opened last fall, 1968 is also a collaborative project with the Playwrights Center. Seven scenes written by PWC members tell personal stories that are…
Flesh And The Desert by Workhaus Collective
In Flesh And The Desert (Workhaus Collective performing at the Playwrights Center, through Jan 28), playwright Carson Kreitzer doesn’t concern herself with the air-conditioned glitter of contemporary Las Vegas – the Bellagio, the Venetian, pot-bellied cowboys meandering through the neo-fascist…