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Grease at Orpheum Theatre on 12/30/08
By: Nicholas Leeman[Read full review]
Grease - Photo by Joan Marcus There are many reasons to both love and hate Grease. It's a microcosm of everything great about the 1950s: Fast cars, faster girls, rock music and a social euphoria still lingering from the end of World War II. It's also a completely ridiculous story, centering around two high school seniors: Danny Zuko (Eric Schneider) and Sandy Dumbrowski (Emily Padgett)....
The Little Match Girl at The Ritz Theater on 12/11/08
By: Janet Preus[Read full review]
Ballet of the Dolls is offering up a very interesting piece for the holidays: a colorful, often amusing, engaging and quite beautiful Little Match Girl. One of the darker tales we associate with the season, this version, conceived and choreographed by artistic director, Myron Johnson, plays primarily on the happier fantasies that cradle the Match Girl, gently weaving them back and forth with the reality of her impending death. Blessed ...
Fat Man Crying at Minneapolis Theater Garage on 12/5/08
By: Janet Preus[Read full review]
Even though I am relatively new to the Twin Cities theatre scene, it didn’t take me long to begin recognizing the name “Scrimshaw”. Writer, actor, producer, director, comedian, you name it; Joseph Scrimshaw does it all. I will not be comparing this piece with anything else he’s done, because I haven’t seen his other work. I do know what I’d like to see, though, but more a...
Souvenir at The Jungle Theater on 11/19/08
By: David de Young[Read full review]
Souvenir publicity photo by Michal Daniel "People may say I can't sing, but no one can ever say I didn't sing." – Florence Foster Jenkins on her critics Souvenir, by Stephen Temperley, is the story of Florence Foster Jenkins, a socialite who made it big as an opera singer in New York City in the 1930s and 1940s. The caveat? She was by all accounts a completely, horrifyi...
How I Learned to Drive, a Theatre Unbound production at The Neighborhood House on 11/17/08
By: David de Young[Read full review]
How I Learned to Drive publicity photo, courtesy of Theatre Unbound Paula Vogel’s How I Learned to Drive premiered Off-Broadway in 1997 and went on to win the coveted Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1998. One could easily list several more awards the play received, but suffice it to say it’s a very good script. Theatre Unbound’s Twin Cities production of the play ope...
Shadowlands at The Guthrie Theater on 11/9/08
By: David de Young[Read full review]
Simon Jones as Lewis and James A. Stephens as Warnie in Shadowlands - Photo by Michal Daniel “The pain now, is part of the happiness, then. That’s the deal.” - C.S. Lewis in Shadowlands William Nicholson’s Shadowlands is the mostly true story of Oxford professor and author C.S. Lewis’s life in the 1950s during the early success of his...
Death and the Maiden at Minneapolis Theater Garage on 11/8/08
By: David de Young[Read full review]
Delta Rae Giordano and Gabriele Angieri Jr. in Death and the Maiden - Publicity photo by Jon Behm Nimbus Theatre’s production of Chilean playwright Ariel Dorfman’s Death and the Maiden opened Friday at the Minneapolis Theatre garage. The play, taking its name from a Schubert quartet, was written in 1991 and had its American premier that same year. Nimbus co-artistic director Liz Neerland...
Neil Simon's Barefoot in the Park, by Starting Gate Productions at Mounds Theatre on 11/7/08
By: Janet Preus[Read full review]
Starting Gate Productions kicked off their Season of Laughs this weekend with a classic Neil Simon comedy, Barefoot in the Park. If there is anybody reading this who has never read or seen a Neil Simon play, you owe it to yourself to include this niche of popular American culture, dominated by Simon for decades. Thankfully, directing veteran Richard Jackson understands what’s funny about Simon&rsquo...
The Horse, The Bird, The Monkey & The Dancer at Red Eye Theater on 11/7/08
By: David de Young[Read full review]
Publicity photo In classical music, a fantasia is a composition that springs from improvisation and frees the composer from the constraints of strict musical forms like the symphony, suite, or concerto. Sandbox Theatre’s The Horse, The Bird, The Monkey & The Dancer is an unfettered piece of that sort; it defies classification, taking you on a journey from point A to point B, but how it gets you the...
Forgetting, a Workhaus Collective production at The Playwrights' Center on 11/1/08
By: David de Young[Read full review]
Annie Enneking as Ash and Julie Kurtz (seated) as Bone in Trista Baldwin's Forgetting - Publicity photo by Kevin McLaughlin Forgetting, which opened Saturday at the Playwrights’ Center in Minneapolis, is about anything but. The Workhaus Collective production of the new play by Trista Baldwin and directed by New York director Daniella Topol is the story of three women in New York City, each of whom has lost...