It’s a terrific idea: take the dense, lyrical prose of Federico Garcia Lorca‘s masterful The House Of Bernarda Alba and replace it with dense, semi-dissonant, percussive music (by Michael John LaChiusa). And it works! As long as you don’t expect…
Tag: The Ritz Theater
Once: heartfelt and streetwise
Theater Latté Da, through Oct 21You 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…
Review | Assassins: overlong maybe, but fab
Theater Latté Da, through March 18Ever wonder why the dapper Johnny Wilkes Booth murdered Abraham Lincoln? Laid awake at night sorting out the reasons why the cheerfully insane Charles Guiteau put a bullet in President Garfield’s back? Tried to figure out why the effervescently cute…
Review | A Christmas Carole Petersen: a Minnesota Nice holiday
Theater Latté Da, through Dec 30There’s an emotionally raw quality to A Christmas Carole Petersen (Theater Latté Da, through Dec 30) that imparts to the material real substance, true Christmas spirit. Without this the play might could be glib, pat, and predictable. For example: Tod Petersen…
Man of La Mancha: a timely, joyful lament
Theater Latté Da, through October 22The promise of a better life motivates us all—as we seek to improve our circumstances and sense of personal meaning. Dale Wasserman‘s classic musical Man of La Mancha tells the timeless tale of Don Quixote, a man who heroically seeks…
C. by Theater Latté Da performing at the Ritz Theater
Cyrano’s nose is great. Super-long, warty, bent, broken (one imagines) numerous times, the nose provides a convincing reason for Cyrano’s suicidal self-loathing (“How can anyone love a face like this?”). His ugly honker drives him into increasingly arcane and abtruse…
Lullaby by Theater Latté Da, performing at the Ritz Theater
A world premiere written by Michael Elyanow and directed by Jeremy Cohen, Lullaby (Theatre Latté Da, through Feb 7 performing at the Ritz Theater) is a story of family drama, broken relationships, mental illness, and grief aided by contemporary rock…
Little Shop Of Horrors by Mu Performing Arts, at the Ritz Theater
Spring! Ah. The snowbanks are melting, temps are soaring (sort of), the sun has a delicious new bite. There will be no more snow. In honor of the new season, CTC is producing Annie, Penumbra is exploring the music of…