Sh. The dyspeptic Critic is here, but I think he’s asleep. Let’s not wake him. He has a distressing tendency to belch out his poisonous opinions with room-clearing fervor. Let’s talk softly. Carole King‘s 70s album Tapestries was the soundtrack…
C.L.U. produced by Collide Theatrical Dance at the Ritz Theater
Remember the old board game, “Clue?†Ever seen a dance version of it? In Collide Theatrical Dance Company’s “C.L.U.†the saucy maid may poison the victim in the kitchen, or the malevolent Ms. Snow strangle him in the bedroom (or…
The Magic Flute by Minnesota Opera Company, performing at the Ordway
The Magic Flute, one of Mozart’s most successful and recognizable operas, is equal parts genius and insane. Its plot is a convoluted fever dream filled with changing allegiances, romantic schmaltz, and an abundance of strange mythology. One cannot help but…
The Magic Flute by Minnesota Opera, performing at the Ordway
Minnesota Opera‘s production (at the Ordway through Nov 22 – a short run; don’t mess about; getcher tickets) of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart‘s glittering The Magic Flute boasts the most extensive and detailed use of projections I have ever seen. Did…
Emile/Eurydice by Transatlantic Love Affair performing at Illusion Theater
In many ways it is necessary for the sake of stability to take life’s routines and habits for granted. It is not until they are interrupted that the vitality of these rhythms are truly understood and appreciated. By exploring the…
The Night Alive at the Jungle Theater
What a rich and wonderful theater experience! The Jungle Theater’s new production, “The Night Alive†by Conor McPherson, will run through December 20, and what an alternative it is to the usual holiday lineup. It will pull you in even…
Feast Of Wolves, Workhaus Collective performing at the Southern Theater
Feast Of Wolves, a fierce and powerful drama by Alan M. Berks, is an adaptation of Aeschylus‘s Orestia Trilogy (Workhaus Collective performing, this time, at the Southern, thru Nov 15). You know, the delightful play that details the death of…
Sister Act by Chanhassen Dinner Theatre
The musical Sister Act, which just opened on the main stage of the Chanhassen Dinner Theatre (and runs through February 27), is as good as holiday fair gets in this season of elves, sugar plum fairies and dogs with antlers.…
The Jungle Book at the Children’s Theatre Co.
The Children’s Theater Company’s intimate Cargill Stage serves as an ideal space to tell the story of The Jungle Book. The story, based on the book by Rudyard Kipling, about a boy who comes to be raised by wolves and…
An Octoroon at Mixed Blood Theatre
Dion Boucicault was a 19th century melodramatist, the fellow who gave us such ne’er-produced masterworks as The School For Scheming and The Vampire. His overwrought potboiler The Octoroon mines the same thin vein of theatrical ore, a play in which…
Murder for Two at Park Square Theatre’s Andy Boss Thrust Stage
Park Square has opened a must-be-seen-as-live-theater kind of show, packed with laughs, silly surprises and feats of performance daring-do. “Murder for Two†is the perfect small show for the theater’s new, intimate Andy Boss Stage. You’ve heard of a triple…
Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street by Theater Latté Da, performing at the Ritz Theater
Mark Benninghfen, who plays the eponymous character in Stephen Sondheim‘s giddy and brilliantly tuneful revenge fantasia, Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street (Theater Latté Da, performing at the Ritz Theater, through Oct 25) is a revelation: board stiff…