Imagine being so wealthy and successful that you need to build a mall in your basement just to hold all of your excess stuff.
The weekend before last, New Epic Theater opened a strikingly beautiful and devastating production of the 1985 Off-Broadway play THE NORMAL HEART about the early days of the AIDS crisis.
In just their second season as a theater company, New Epic Theater is tackling not one but two challenging and not often performed political plays with THE NORMAL HEART and CORIOLANUS, performed in rep (something that's also not often done).
I know next to nothing about jazz singer and Civil Rights activist Nina Simone.
Collide Theatrical Dance Company is now in their fourth season of creating 'original Broadway-style jazz dance musicals.
In one of those strange theater-going coincidences, the night after I saw two one-act plays at the Guthrie, I attended opening night of Penumbra's presentation of two one-act plays.
Chekhov's THE SEAGULL is a classic of the theater, but I had never seen it.
2016 is the fourth year of Broadway Reimagined, the partnership that combines the resources of Hennepin Theatre Trust with the innovation of Theater Latte Da to create a new interpretation of a familiar Broadway musical.
The 1975 smash hit Broadway musical A CHORUS LINE truly is a singular sensation.
?They say that the more specific something is, the more universal it is.
2015 was my 5th full year as a Twin Cities Theater Blogger, and I saw a record high 200+ shows.
?Consider this my annual plug for Loudmouth Collective, one of my favorite new theater companies, if you can still call them 'new' after four seasons of smart, intense, funny, beautifully executed theater.
?This is my fourth time seeing and writing about Theater Latte Da's annual holiday show ALL IS CALM, presented with Hennepin Theatre Trust at the Pantages Theatre.
Inside Park Square Theatre on 7th Place in lovely downtown St.
Friends, it's been a rough week.
A short order cook who is an ex-con and reads Shakespeare.
Friends, I know that there are a lot of theater companies in the Twin Cities, so many that it's hard to keep track of them all and impossible to see them all.
Confession: I've never read THE JUNGLE BOOK (the collection of stories written by Rudyard Kipling in 1894) or seen the 1967 Disney movie (that I can remember).
