The Penumbra Theater’s production of For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf is nothing short of an immersive feat and it’s an experience not to be missed. The play is actually a series of choreographed poems…
Minnesota Theater Awards launches
The Twin Cities theater community gathered last night to celebrate the year’s accomplishments and recognize its finest work. The Minnesota Theater Awards has sprung up in the vacuum left when the Ivey Awards folded earlier this year. According to Brant…
Frankenstein — Playing With Fire: a lively rebirth
The Guthrie is reviving Frankenstein — Playing With Fire, staging Barbara Field’s excellent drama. They premiered the show back in 1988 and it’s easy to see why they decided to bring it back to life. Field’s play is both moving…
Is God Is: gorgeously nasty
“The fire keeps tryna come out.” Mixed Blood‘s wonderfully repellent and highly original Is God Is, written by Aleshea Harris, is a clutch-popper. Credit – definitely the right word, because this play zips along like a house afire and is…
Little Women: A 150 Year Old Novel With Unwavering Contemporary Appeal
150 years ago, Louisa May Alcott wrote a book called Little Women about four sisters struggling with the hardships of living in Massachusetts during the Civil War. That book has since gone on to inspire countless film and theater adaptations…
Awake And Sing!: a 1930s era gem
“She’s so beautiful. She’s like French words.” “Life shouldn’t be printed on one dollar bills.” “I got a yen for her, and that ain’t Chinese coins.” Can a play containing gems like this ever really be bad? Not really, and…
Once: heartfelt and streetwise
You know what busking is, don’t you? When a talented (one hopes) musician plays for free on the street, opening his guitar case (or fiddle case, or mandolin case, as the case may be) in hopes of catching a few…
West Of Central: extraordi-noir
Austene Van makes one heck of a good private dick and Christina Ham’s new play at the Pillsbury House Theatre makes the most of it. Ham’s noir-ish West of Central has a complex plot that involves Van and real estate…
Review | Dial M For Murder: Dial M For Misogyny, Masculinity and Morals (or lack thereof)
You probably know Dial M for Murder better as a film by Alfred Hitchcock. Gremlin Theatre’s season opener reminds us it came first as a stage play (of the same title). And on Gremlin’s new thrust stage in the buzzing…
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It can be believed that for a organization to receive success, an excellent job operations is the keystone to program and program the activities. In many of the businesses, task control is the main regulator to uncover and recognize the…
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It really is believed that for a business to acquire accomplishment, a superb task operations is the keystone to package and plan the activities. In most of the businesses, project supervision is the main limiter to learn and distinguish the…
Review | Night, Mother: essential, actor-driven theater
Rarely does the need arise to talk someone off a cliff. In popular art, when this situation is dramatized, exceptional people often find the perfect words to provide hope.  Marsha Norman‘s stunning play Night, Mother rejects this contrivance and shows…