The House Can't Stand at The Rarig Center on 5/17/10

By: Janet Preus
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Steve Epp in The House Can't Stand 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 its earlier run, The House Can’t Stand has returned in a slightly edited version, which has surely tightened it up and ma...

Wormwood, a Hardcover Theater production at Bryant Lake Bowl on 5/7/10

By: Janet Preus
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 Kristin Foster as the Green Fairy in Hardcover Theater's WORMWOOD 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, adapting relative...

Biggest Little House In The Forest at The Children's Theatre Company on 5/6/10

By: John Olive
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Photo by Dan Norman, courtesy of the 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 or the over-the-top costume effects that marked her work in Cinderella, Th...

Slideshow: Low - "Quiet Please" show at The Varsity Theater on 5/6/10

By: Jenn Barnett
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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....

South Pacific at Ordway Center for the Performing Arts on 5/4/10

By: Janet Preus
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South Pacific at the Ordway - Photo by Peter Coombs 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, this production does a classy job of updating the staging, movement and technical presentation while pre...

Al Kooper Tribute at Dakota Jazz Club on 5/2/10

By: Jenn Barnett
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HowWasTheShow is proud to present Jenn Barnett’s photos of the Al Kooper Tribute at the Dakota. ...

Mulan at The Children's Theatre Company on 4/30/10

By: Janet Preus
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  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 from Disney was void of any stage directions, so the company that is renowned for extraordinary technical karma had a blank slate to imagine and produce &md...

My Fair Lady at Minnesota Opera Center on 4/30/10

By: John Olive
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  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 of the source material) than to Lerner and Loewe. If you want to hear the show's marvelous music in its full throated glory, I would...

Two Old Black Guys Just Sitting Around Talking at Penumbra Theatre on 4/29/10

By: John Olive
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Publicity photo for Two Old Black Guys Just Sitting Around Talking - Photo by Ann Marsden In his lovely Two Old Black Guys Just Sitting Around Talking (Penumbra, 270 Kent St., St Paul, through May 23, penumbratheatre.org) playwright Gus Edwards presents us with two gentlemen of a grand experience of life, inhabiting the trash strewn corner of a New York City park, watching t...

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf at The Jungle Theater on 4/27/10

By: John Olive
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Michelle Barber as Martha in the Jungle Theater's production of WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF - Photo by Michal Daniel When first produced in October 1962 (at the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis), the boozy and vituperative Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf (at the Jungle, 2951 Lyndale Ave. S., Minneapolis, through May 30, jungletheater.com) blew through staid and polite Broadway lik...