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Review | An Enemy of the People: a searing, must-see political thriller

by David and Chelsea Berglund • May 9, 2018

Copper pipes, venture capital, scientific ethics. Who knew combining these elements could make for stimulating, prescient drama? Brad Birch’s new adaptation of the Henrik Ibsen classic, An Enemy of the People, running through June 3 at the Guthrie, uses these…

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REVIEW | Marisol challenges us all

by Janet Preus • May 5, 2018

Theatre Coup d’Etat has made a brave move with José Rivera’s play “Marisol.” The premise is provocative, the action disturbing and the characters flawed and intriguing. In Rivera’s apocalyptic urban fantasy world, God is old, senile and dying, and violence…

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Review | The Good Person Of Szechwan: Hensley comes full circle

by Mari Wittenbreer • April 24, 2018

The Good Person of Szechwan is Michelle Hensley’s last show as artistic director of Ten Thousand Things Theatre Company. In her distinguished career, she has brought her productions not just to the paying public but also free of charge to…

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Review | Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner

by John Olive • April 22, 2018

Sit in the corner and try not to belch. It’s repulsive. Behave yourself. Cynical Critic: Yes, sir. Go ahead. And don’t shout. CC: Ahem. There’s only one reason the Guthrie did Todd Kreidler (working with William Rose‘s screenplay)’s Guess Who’s…

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Review | Follies: rough-hewn charm

by John Olive • April 20, 2018

Like the recent The Music Man, Follies (Artistry Theater, through May 6) exudes sturdy but rough-around-the edges sweetness and charm. Director Benjamin McGovern has done a crackerjack job casting Follies, (music and lyrics by the great Stephen Sondheim, book by…

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Review | Five Points: the production thrills, but the play needs work

by David and Chelsea Berglund • April 11, 2018

In the mid-nineteenth century, the now nonexistent Five Points in New York City was one of the nation’s most diverse neighborhoods, though it was far from a melting pot. As oppressed people groups found themselves relegated to its squalid accommodations,…

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Review | The Mermaid Hour Remixed : an appealing premise

by Janet Preus • April 10, 2018

Mixed Blood Theatre has just opened Mermaid Hour: Remixed by David Valdes Greenwood with music by Eric Mayson, as part of the National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere. The non-musical version is playing at other theaters around the country,…

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Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: A Flash of Insight and Other Poems

by Staff • April 10, 2018

David de Young founded HowWasTheShow in 2002. In 2010, he handed over the reins and moved to Finland. This month he’s returning to Minnesota for the first time in 5 years to celebrate the release of his first collection of…

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Review | The Skriker: Churchillian theatricality

by John Olive • April 7, 2018

Newness: a relatively new (to me anyhow) theater, Fortune’s Fool. FF has done a half dozen plays, plays by Dan Pinkerton, Kira Obolensky, etc. Now they are performing a newish (well, seldom produced in any event) play by the great…

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Review | Something Rotten!: Yes, it’s that funny!

by Janet Preus • April 4, 2018

What if two brothers got together and decided to write a musical about two brothers writing a musical? (A few adult beverages, perhaps, and …) The brothers come up with a wacky idea about how musicals were born in Shakespeare’s…

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Review | The Wolves: breezy charm

by John Olive • March 31, 2018

The Wolves (Jungle Theater, through Apr 29) concerns a group of young women, 9 by my count, prepping for a series of soccer games. Soccer-haters (a category that includes myself) take note: you don’t have to watch these women play.…

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Review | Measure For Measure: theater underdone

by Mari Wittenbreer • March 26, 2018

It isn’t surprising that Theatre Unbound, a company formed by women for the advancement of women theatre artists, was drawn to mount a production of Shakespeare’s Measure For Measure (playing through April 8, in the lovely Gremlin Theatre). In their…

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