Circle Mirror Transformation (at the Guthrie’s Dowling Studio, through June 13, 612.377.2224, guthrietheater.org) by Annie Baker sneaks up on you. It all seems, initially, so sweet and innocuous. Marty is conducting a class for beginning actors in a small Vermont…
Photo set: Dessa, No Bird Sing at the Varsity Theater
Doomtree’s Dessa, the City Pages Best Songwriter, Best Local Girl Made Good and creator of the Best Local Album of the Past 12 Months performing at the City Pages Best of the Twin Cities 2010 show at the Varsity Theater with No Bird Sing opening.
Peter Wolf Crier CD Re-Release with Kill The Vultures at the Turf Club
Who would have thought a re-release party could be so much fun? Peter Wolf Crier, the duo of former Wars of 1812‘s frontman Peter Pisano and drummer Brian Moen, released their debut CD Inter-Be locally more than six months ago…
Slideshow: Peter Wolf Crier CD Re-release at the Turf Club
HowWasTheShow is proud to present Jenn Barnett’s photos of Peter Wolf Crier‘s CD Release at The Turf Club with Kill The Vultures. Slideshow is set to “Crutch and Cane” by Peter Wolf Crier. See also, David de Young’s review of…
The House Can’t Stand at the Rarig Center
Theater de la Jeune Lune lives on in an original show written and performed by Steve Epp and directed by Dominique Serrand, presented May 17, 2010 at the Rarig Center on the University of Minnesota campus. In case you missed…
Wormwood, a Hardcover Theater production at Bryant Lake Bowl
Wormwood, which opened May 6, continues Hardcover Theater’s “less is more†approach to reducing potentially unwieldy stories to perfectly manageable ones, even on the Bryant-Lake Bowl’s tiny stage. The theater company has carved out a singular niche in this town,…
Slideshow: Low – "Quiet Please" show at The Varsity Theater
HowWasTheShow is proud to present Jenn Barnett’s photos of Low at The Varsity Theater. Slideshow is set to “When I Go Deaf” by Low. Share on Facebook
Biggest Little House In The Forest at The Children's Theatre Company
What a pleasure to actually see Autumn Ness. In The Biggest Little House In The Forest (on the Children’s Theatre Co.’s Cargill Stage, 2400 3rd Ave. S., Minneapolis, through June 20, childrenstheatre.org) Ms. Ness wears none of the feature disguising makeup…
South Pacific at Ordway Center for the Performing Arts
By Janet Preus The Lincoln Center Theater’s touring production of South Pacific, now running at the Ordway in St. Paul, offers a slightly edgier take on the war-in-paradise story. Certainly one of the best shows ever written in this genre,…
Slideshow: Al Kooper Tribute at the Dakota
HowWasTheShow is proud to present Jenn Barnett’s photos of the Al Kooper Tribute at the Dakota. Share on Facebook
My Fair Lady at Minnesota Opera Center
Ten Thousand Things’ production of My Fair Lady (Ten Thousand Things, various venues, though note that the “public performances” are at the MN Opera Center, 620 N. 1st St., Minneapolis, May 7-30, tenthousandthings.org) owes more to George Bernard Shaw (creator…
Mulan at The Children’s Theatre Company
The Children’s Theatre Company (CTC) opened a strikingly handsome staging of the now classic Disney film, Mulan, to a full house of adoring fans – some even dressed as the title character. According to director, David Mann, the script sent…