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Photo Set: Amsterdam Bar and Hall Grand Opening Weekend! 9/24/11
Photo Set: Amsterdam Bar and Hall Pre-Grand Opening Night 9/22/11
“Neighbors” at Mixed Blood Theatre
Mixed Blood has opened their season with an outrageous play and an equally outrageous concept, and I am equally impressed with both. The play is Neighbors by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, a biting satire of every Black stereotype you’ve ever heard of;…
“Cat’s Paw” produced by Theatre Pro Rata at the Gremlin Theater
“Cat’s Paw†by William Mastrosimone, Theatre Pro Rata’s new offering showing at the Gremlin Theater, paints a “what if†world ignited by pressing ecological issues and fueled by the media’s obsession with ratings. Eco-terrorists—or “eco-warriors,†as the leader (Victor) of…
reasons to be pretty by Walking Shadow Theatre Company performing in the Guthrie’s Dowling Studio
Steph is angry. Angry is to put it mildly. Steph is furious, screaming, in a state of howling rage, throwing pillows, stomping around the bedroom, spewing the fuck word and various other obscenities with machine-gun-like abandon. Her boyfriend Greg, the…
“Much Ado about Nothing”
The Guthrie Theater opened its 2011-2012 season last night with a new Joe Dowling production of Much Ado about Nothing. One of Shakespeare’s more serious comedies, it is rich in life lessons as the work of a seasoned playwright. The…
The Pride at the Pillsbury House Theatre
Ooh, a good one. Alexi Kaye Campbell‘s taut The Pride (Pillsbury House Theatre, through Oct 16) is a modestly scaled play on a huge subject: the nature of sexuality. Campbell creates three main characters, Oliver, Phillip and Sylvia and then…
Photo Set: Mason Jennings ‘Minnesota’ song set at Carmichael Lynch 9/12/11
A Short Play About 9/11 by Workhaus Collective
Nine-eleven. It’s no longer just a date, it’s code, for an impossible-to-describe national catastrophe. Even at this remove nine-eleven remains a series of jangled images: a jet plane slamming into a tall building. Conservatively dressed businessmen hurtling to their deaths…
Mercy Watson To The Rescue at Childrens Theatre Co.
Mercy Watson gets where she’s going in Act 1, Scene 1, page 1: “Toast!” she cries. “Toast and butter!” Mercy, a pig, says this, oh, seven or eight hundred times during CTC’s charming Mercy Watson To The Rescue (at the…
