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Karen Bovard reviewied theater online, in weekly arts papers, and in scholarly journals for 20 years in New England. In 2016, she relocated to Saint Paul, MN. She's been making theater for more than 40 years, amassing over 70 directing credits. An avid theater goer, she's seen professional productions of all of Shakespeare's plays, completing the canon from the audience pov. She holds a Ph.D. in Theater & Women's Studies. A global educator, she has lived, studied, or worked in Cambodia, Indonesia, Thailand, Japan, Russia, France, and Germany.

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BWW Review: Prime Productions Mounts MARJORIE PRIME at Park Square

April 30, 2019

Playwriting can be a form of thinking, and plays can be thought-experiments.

BWW Review: METAMORPHOSES at Guthrie

April 22, 2019

'Bodies' is the first word spoken in Mary Zimmerman's adaptation of Ovid's METAMORPHOSES, and it's the physicality of the story telling that makes this show such a theatrical pleasure.

BWW Review: Masterful CYRANO DE BERGERAC at Guthrie Theater

March 28, 2019

Sometimes all the pieces come together: story, language, visuals, performance, staging.

BWW Review: SISTERS OF PEACE at History Theatre

March 27, 2019

Do you find it hard to imagine how to engage, directly but civilly, with people who hold views you emphatically oppose? If so, make a beeline for History Theater in Saint Paul to see SISTERS OF PEACE.

BWW Review: Intimate, Funny, Moving INTO THE WOODS at Ten Thousand Things

March 4, 2019

INTO THE WOODS is new artistic director Marcela Lorca's debut directorial outing for Ten Thousand Things after the retirement of renowned artist and social change agent Michelle Hensley, the founder of the company.

BWW Review: World Premiere of BENEVOLENCE at Penumbra Theatre

February 25, 2019

Ifa Bayeza's (lower case titled) benevolence, the second play in her trilogy revolving around Emmett Till, the 14 year old Chicago boy brutally murdered in the Mississippi Delta in 1955, is hard to watch.

BWW Feature: Inclusive and Contemporary AS YOU LIKE IT at Guthrie Theater

February 23, 2019

Director Lavina Jadhwani had a clear intention underlying casting and concept in the Guthrie's current production of AS YOU LIKE IT: to enable audience members from many different heritages and sexualities to see themselves represented on stage.

BWW Review: World Premiere of Fast, Funny, Smart STEWARDESS! at History Theatre

February 18, 2019

Briskly written and dynamically staged, this world premiere tells a complicated, true, little known story with wit and economy.

BWW Review: Compact, All-Female Cast ANTIGONE at Park Square Theatre

February 13, 2019

Let's remember: Antigone was a teenager.

BWW Review: Surviving the Triple Apocalypse: Funny, Faithful THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH at Park Square Theatre

February 12, 2019

Opening disclosure: I love this script! I think it's one of American theater's great treasures.

BWW Review: Enter the Situation Room with UNEXPLODED ORDNANCES (UXO) at Guthrie's Dowling Studio

January 30, 2019

The Guthrie's 9th floor experimental black box space, where all tickets are always just $9, is one of the best deals in town.

BWW Review: Gorgeous A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC at Theater Latte Da

January 29, 2019

Theater Latte Da's well-cast production of Sondheim's A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC is gorgeous to look at and sweet on the ear.

BWW Review: THE GREAT LEAP Just Misses at Guthrie Theater

January 23, 2019

Lauren Yee is a talented playwright, with an ear for fast dialogue and a knack for creating pithy lines that work on several levels.

BWW Review: Sobering and Resonant Regional Premiere of THE CHILDREN at Jungle Theater

January 20, 2019

Under Sarah Rasmussen as Artistic Director, the 150 seat Jungle Theater in Minneapolis punches above its weight frequently, mounting finely tuned productions of important new works.

BWW Review: Gremlin Theatre's THE FATHER is a Spare, Disorienting, Moving Journey through Dementia

January 12, 2019

Florian Zeller's adventurous script, winner of the 2014 Moliere Prize for best new play in France, takes up questions that are (or will be!) central for many of us: how do we care for aging parents who are losing their memories, disappearing into dementia, and (perhaps) undergoing personality change

BWW Review: Jazz & Peanuts Inspired CHILL in Saint Paul

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