What’s the business of the Suicide Club? “Death,” stentorily intones Mr. George (in a terrific performance by James Cada), with equal parts grinning euphoria and stern reverence. Ah, yes. Sherlock Holmes And The Adventure Of The Suicide Club (at Park…
War Horse at the Orpheum Theatre
World War One, aka the Great War.  Unrelenting sordidness, a sea of blood seeping into endless mud, no-man’s-land stretching for hundreds of miles, forty plus million human beings killed or maimed, a whole generation lost. No heroes, no real villains. …
URINETOWN at The Jungle Theater
The Jungle Theater‘s delightful, exuberant production of Urinetown is occasionally hoisted on its own humorous petard. The show first premiered in New York over a decade ago—its brand of insider humor—commenting on the cheesy musical even as it presents us…
Photo Set: Dan Israel CD and Vinyl Release with Germaine Gemberling at Icehouse, 6/1/13
Clybourne Park at the Guthrie Theater
It is lucky that Jim Lichtscheidl gives such a rich and multi-layered performance in the first act (set in 1959) of Clybourne Park (at the Guthrie, through August 4). His Karl is a despicable toad and playwright Bruce Norris fills…
An Iliad at the Guthrie’s Dowling Studio Theater
How can one actor play the size, the scope, the meaning of the Trojan War – or any war? He plays it as one man against another. He gives these men names and families. He puts them in a place…
Anything Goes at the Ordway
Anything Goes (currently docked at the Ordway for a week, though May 12) hails from the early tradition of American musical theater, when musical plays mostly consisted of comic sketches interspersed with (often brilliant) songs. There are a few…
Alice in Wonderland at the Children’s Theatre Company
The Children’s Theatre Company returns to an old favorite with Sharon Holland’s script of Lewis Carroll’s classic fantasy, Alice in Wonderland. About ten years ago, Dominic Serrand directed it for CTC; artistic director Peter Brosius takes a more traditional path…
The Primrose Path at the Guthrie Theater
Playwright Crispin Whittell and the determined Guthrie cast endeavor to turn Ivan Turgenev‘s melancholic, poignant, dreamy, and oh-so-Russian novel Home Of The Gentry into a brisk, bracing and breezy drawing room comedy — and they, for the most part, succeed.…
Photo Set: Johnny Marr at The Varsity, 4/23/13
A Streetcar Named Desire by Ten Thousand Things Theater
“I don’t want realism,” Blanche DuBois cries in A Streetcar Named Desire (Ten Thousand Things Theater, various venues, through May 26), “I want magic!” The great Tennessee Williams serves up juicy dollops of both in this play. Streetcar celebrates eroticism,…
