Wormwood, which opened May 6, continues Hardcover Theater’s “less is more†approach to reducing potentially unwieldy stories to perfectly manageable ones, even on the Bryant-Lake Bowl’s tiny stage. The theater company has carved out a singular niche in this town,…
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Slideshow: Low – "Quiet Please" show at The Varsity Theater
HowWasTheShow is proud to present Jenn Barnett’s photos of Low at The Varsity Theater. Slideshow is set to “When I Go Deaf” by Low. Share on Facebook
Biggest Little House In The Forest at The Children's Theatre Company
What a pleasure to actually see Autumn Ness. In The Biggest Little House In The Forest (on the Children’s Theatre Co.’s Cargill Stage, 2400 3rd Ave. S., Minneapolis, through June 20, childrenstheatre.org) Ms. Ness wears none of the feature disguising makeup…
South Pacific at Ordway Center for the Performing Arts
By Janet Preus The Lincoln Center Theater’s touring production of South Pacific, now running at the Ordway in St. Paul, offers a slightly edgier take on the war-in-paradise story. Certainly one of the best shows ever written in this genre,…
Slideshow: Al Kooper Tribute at the Dakota
HowWasTheShow is proud to present Jenn Barnett’s photos of the Al Kooper Tribute at the Dakota. Share on Facebook
My Fair Lady at Minnesota Opera Center
Ten Thousand Things’ production of My Fair Lady (Ten Thousand Things, various venues, though note that the “public performances” are at the MN Opera Center, 620 N. 1st St., Minneapolis, May 7-30, tenthousandthings.org) owes more to George Bernard Shaw (creator…
Mulan at The Children’s Theatre Company
The Children’s Theatre Company (CTC) opened a strikingly handsome staging of the now classic Disney film, Mulan, to a full house of adoring fans – some even dressed as the title character. According to director, David Mann, the script sent…
Two Old Black Guys Just Sitting Around Talking at Penumbra Theatre
In his lovely Two Old Black Guys Just Sitting Around Talking (Penumbra, 270 Kent St., St Paul, through May 23, penumbratheatre.org) playwright Gus Edwards presents us with two gentlemen of a grand experience of life, inhabiting the trash strewn corner…
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf at The Jungle Theater
When first produced in October 1962 (at the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis), the boozy and vituperative Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf (at the Jungle, 2951 Lyndale Ave. S., Minneapolis, through May 30, jungletheater.com) blew through staid and polite…
Slideshow: Rock for Pussy 2010
HowWasTheShow is proud to present Jenn Barnett’s photos from Rock for Pussy at First Avenue. Slideshow set to David Bowie’s “Let’s Dance.” Share on Facebook