Kicking off its 10th season, nimbus has christened a new permanent theater space at 1517 Central Avenue in Northeast Minneapolis with a spicy adaptation of Jean Genet’s controversial The Balcony (nimbus theater, February 11th through March 6th). A sign posted…
Photo Set: Blue Sky Blackout EP Release at Cause Spirits and Soundbar
Agnes Under The Big Top at Mixed Blood Theatre
Agnes Under The Big Top (Mixed Blood Theater, through March 6) is like the New York City subway on which much of it is set: dark, scary, echoey, pulsing, with sudden flashes of bright and harsh illumination. Playwright/director Aditi Kapil…
Doubt, A Parable at Ten Thousand Things Theater
Does anyone doubt Father Flynn’s innocence? John Patrick Shanley‘s masterful Doubt, A Parable (Ten Thousand Things Theater, through March 6) is often portrayed as a mystery. Did Flynn, as Sister Aloysius so stridently claims, really commit “an indiscretion” with the…
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, a Penumbra Theatre production at the Guthrie Theater
On rare occasions in theater, all the critical elements seem to converge in one glorious experience. The script is brilliant, the actors are perfectly suited to their roles, and the director, with great respect for both, seems to simply open…
Drakul at Walking Shadow Theatre Company
Dracula burns with sexuality: the oily count, dressed in smooth leather and crisp shirts, his creepy yet compelling accent, so obsequiously polite. And of course his gleamingly sharp teeth as he wraps the swooning maidens in his cape and drinks,…
Shirley Valentine at The Jungle Theater
Cheryl Willis is blessed with an easy-going, laid-back charisma. She quickly takes and holds the stage in Willy Russell‘s solo show Shirley Valentine (at the Jungle Theater, through March 20). Willis is tall, down to earth, wiry black hair, her…
Communist Daughter, Thomas Kivi (CD Release) & Brighton MA at The Fine Line
The Winter’s Tale at the Guthrie Theater
At the very end of William Shakespeare‘s The Winter’s Tale (on the Guthrie‘s Wurtele Stage, through March 27) the statue comes alive. Hermione lives! She embraces, and forgives, Leontes. Wow. It’s one of the most thrilling moments in the canon,…
Photo set: Best New Bands 2010 Showcase at First Avenue
WTF at Mu Performing Arts
It’s entirely appropriate that WTF – excellent title – by Katie Ka Vang (Mu Performing Arts, at Mixed Blood Theatre, through Feb 6) is being produced in the midst of our nastiest winter in years. WTF is bleak, hallucinatory and…
Babe, The Sheep Pig at the Children’s Theatre Company
I can try to paint you a picture of Babe the amazing sheep pig: blinking, clutching Farmer Hoggett with his piggy fists, pudgy around the middle, with too short pink pants, head bald save for a small wiry shock of…