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 | Indecent: beautifully dilapidated
Your two agèd (make that astute and intelligent) www.HowWasTheShow.com reviewers, John Olive and Janet Preus, recently attended a performance at the G of Paula Vogel‘s Indecent. They then repaired to the bar downstairs and prepared the following review: John Olive:…
Sunday In The Park With George: an affecting portrait of the artistic impulse
The design! The Guthrie‘s Sunday In The Park With George features richly fab work by projection designer Caite Hevner and by lighting designer Jane Cox. Their Sunday is gloriously, breath-takingly, mesmerizingly colorful. I’m unsure where the lighting leaves off and…
Refugia: Serrand & Co. do gorgeous work
Lately there’s been a multitude of shows in Twin Cities theatres about refugees and immigrants. They’ve run the course from last year’s pandering production of Flower Drum Song at Park Square to the spare but beautiful production of Promise Land…
The Bluest Eye: dense and difficult, ultimately rewarding
Are you a conservative theater-goer? Do you insist that your plays entertain, contain coherent plots and characters with whom you can readily identify? If this is you, then the beautifully substantive The Bluest Eye (at the Guthrie through May 21),…
Battlefield: A Cycle Of War And Peace
Walk into the McGuire Theatre and all the way to the back wall the stage is nearly bare. There’s a drum, a chair, some bamboo and a few pieces of cloth. An apt introduction to a piece by Peter Brook,…
King Lear: a grandly produced disappointment
Shakespeare’s King Lear is a dense tapestry of a play. Themes of loyalty, insanity, blindness, compassion and even base nature are all explored. Every director must choose what to emphasize and what to allow to pass without development. Guthrie artistic…
Home Sweet Home at the Guthrie Theater
Why do some plays falter by being too preachy and earnest while others with similar loads of heartfelt information and a clear agenda take flight? Home Street Home, currently in a short run at in the Guthrie Theatre complex, is…
South Pacific at the Guthrie Theater
First, allow me to express some negativity: why does the Guthrie Theater so often insist on bringing in New Yorkers to play parts that should, by rights, go to equally talented (and often even more gifted) Minnesotans? In the case of…
Trouble In Mind at the Guthrie Theater
“Justify!†demands the fictional director in Alice Childress’ Trouble in Mind a play-within-a–play drama now at the Guthrie, through June 5. “Justify,†spits back Wiletta in the second act as she struggles with the need to keep her acting job…