Liz Duffy Adams‘s intermittently amusing Dog Act (Fortune’s Fool Theatre performing in The Gremlin) brings to mind the work of a number of super-duper playwrights: Bertolt Brecht (Mother Courage), Samuel Beckett (Waiting For Godot), Caryl Churchill (The Skriker, produced a…
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Review | The Clean House: clean, but not clean-cut
Theatre Unbound, performing at the Gremlin, thru Nov 18Theatre Unbound’s production of Sarah Ruhl’s The Clean House (Theatre Unbound,performing at the Gremlin Theater until November 18) is only one of at least ten productions of this play in the country over the next four months. Some reasons why…
Review | Dial M For Murder: Dial M For Misogyny, Masculinity and Morals (or lack thereof)
At St. Paul’s Gremlin, though Sept 30You 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…
Review | Equivocation: Jacobean swells having fun
Walking Shadow Theatre Company, performing at the Gremlin, 550 Vandalia, St. PaulSince 2004, Walking Shadow Theatre Company has been the area’s premier provider of historical drama: Hatchet Lady, Carrie Nation, Angel Of Destruction (19th century U.S.); Marie Antoinette (18th century France); Gross Indecency, The Three Trials Of Oscar Wilde (19th century…
Review | Measure For Measure: theater underdone
Theatre Unbound, through April 8It 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…
Roller Derby Queen: overlong, yes, but still effective
SOS Theater, performing at the Gremlin Theatre, through Nov 26The central conceit of Michele Lepsche‘s affecting (and challenging) Roller Derby Queen (SOS Theater, performing in the wonderful Gremlin space – 550 Vandalia in St. Paul – through Nov 26) is terrific: Florence has ensconced herself in a junk-choked house…
Gremlin’s New Performing Space: Finally, Some Good Theater News
550 Vandalia Street, in St. Paul, close to 94, the Green Line, a taproom, food trucks… Yes!Been wondering about the Gremlin Theatre? Wonder no more. They’ve been busy, creating a much-needed new twin cities performance venue, in St. Paul’s Vandalia Tower. This spunky purveyor of edgy contemporary theater finally has a home of its own, after some years…
H2O by Gremlin Theatre, performing at the Minneapolis Theatre Garage
Plan on going out for drinks following Gremlin Theater’s regional premier of Jane Martin’s new play H2O, because you will need them. Not only is the show a provocative conversation starter diving headlong into weighty topics of meaning and purpose, but…
Interview: Peter Christian Hansen and Ashley Montondo
We stopped in at the Garage Theater to talk with Peter Christian Hansen, founder and artistic director of St. Paul’s Gremlin Theater, about his approach to his craft as well as his current project, a regional premier of Jane Martin’s…
Death And The Maiden, a co-production of Torch Theater and Gremlin Theatre, at the Theatre Garage
This production of the oft-produced Death And The Maiden (Torch Theater and Gremlin Theatre, co-producing at the Theater Garage through Feb 21) begins with a prologue of sorts: Paulina Escobar (played with calm and statuesque fire by Stacia Rice) moves…