Accomplished actor/singer/director Randy Reyes has taken over, from founder Rick Shiomi, the artistic directorship of Mu Performing Arts.  Randy is busy these days – the Mu handover occurred quite recently, plus he’s in the middle of directing Mu’s latest, Kung…
Displaced Hindu Gods: A Trilogy Of Plays at Mixed Blood Theatre
Aditi Brennan Kapil‘s trilogy  Displaced Hindu Gods opens Mixed Blood Theatre‘s 2013-14 season; the plays run through Oct 27.  HowWasTheShow.com sent its three theater reviewers (Janet Preus, Dominic Orlando and John Olive) to cover the Oct 5 opening.  Each filed…
“Uncle Vanya” at The Guthrie
One of the strangest things to happen in the last season of “Breaking Badâ€, AMC’s meth-fueled drama, is the role-switch (or apparent role-switch) of the two main characters. Walter White, desperate and stricken with cancer, goes from high-school chemistry teacher…
Interview: Aditi Brennan Kapil
Mixed Blood Theatre opens their season on Oct 5 with a trilogy – a trilogy! – of new plays by Aditi Brennan Kapil, Displaced Hindu Gods. DHG consists of: Brahmin/i, Shiv and The Chronicles of Kalki. Ms. Kapil is, as…
Nature Theatre Of Oklahoma, At The Walker Art Center
Alternately exhilarating and tedious, Nature Theatre of Oklahoma’s “Life and Times: Episode One†is, without a doubt, a one-of-a-kind experience. “Life and Times†is a sung-thru music-theatre piece, using as its libretto 16 hours of recorded audio—company member Kristin Worrall…
Steerage Song by Theater Latté Da, performing at the Lab Theater
What a grand adventure! To pack your belongings into a few small suitcases and then, traveling alone or perhaps with your wife and children, to say good-bye – Permanently!  Never to see them again! – to your friends and family…
Disenchanted by Casting Spells Productions at the Ritz Theater
If you’re an aficionado of (I nearly said “addicted to”) exuberant, campy and fiercely funny musical comedies then Disenchanted (at the Ritz Theater, through Oct 13) is for you. The show is niftily staged by director Mark Bergren, with the…
Wicked at the Orpheum Theater
Is there any point, really, in reviewing “Wickedâ€? By now, everyone’s seen it, loved it, hated it, or made up their minds after simply hearing about it and/or reading someone else’s review. Why write another one? The children—you say. Think…
Ivey 2013, At The Historic State Theatre
Good morning, Minneapolis! Â Dominic couldn’t make the awards Monday Night, so he sent me, Cousin Donny! Â All the way from Los Angeles, but I’m always happy to spend a weekend away from that glittering ratrap! Sorry to file so late,…