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Photo Set: Lyle Lovett at Music in the Zoo, 8/3/14
Minnesota Fringe 2014
It’s that magic time of year again, when local theater folk drain their cowboy coffees and step forward (and when national artists working the extensive Fringe circuit bring themselves and their talent to our fair city) and, green-lighting themselves, throw…
A Little Night Music by Mu Performing Arts, performing at Park Square Theatre
In Stephen Sondheim‘s marvelous A Little Night Music (Mu Performing Arts performing at Park Square Theatre, through Aug 10) little surprise or tension lies in the playing-out of the characters’ predictable arcs. Frederik is married, sexlessly, to Anne. Famous matinee…
Photo Set: Basilica Block Party, Night 2, 7/12/14
Photo Set: Basilica Block Party, Night One, 7/11/14
Photo Set: Michael McDonald at Mystic Lake, 6/29/14
My Fair Lady at the Guthrie
Valiant and übertalented HowWasTheShow.com-ers, Janet Preus and John Olive, attended the Tuesday evening performance of My Fair Lady (at the Guthrie, through Aug 31). They then betook themselves down to Sea Change for beverages, salty french fries and pithy conversation,…
Photo Set: John Mark Nelson with Bad Bad Hats at the Cedar, 6/28/14
Photo Set: Rufus Wainwright with Lucy Wainwright Roche at Music in the Zoo, 6/24/14
Photo Set: Rock the Garden, 6/22/14
The Heiress at the Jungle Theater
Money. It corrupts, perverts and, ultimately, kills. Can love survive money? The Heiress (at the Jungle Theater, through August 10) rather disturbingly concludes that it cannot. Thank God I don’t have any. But The Heiress (written 1947 by Ruth and…