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BWW Review: Lyric Arts Presents Enchanting Feminine Powered SENSE & SENSIBILITY
by Peggy Sue Dunigan - February 25, 2019
Anoka's Lyric Arts in the Main Stage Theater reprises a 200 year old tradition when the company stages Jane Austen's famous bestselling novel Sense & Sensibility--For the company's recent production, which opened on a February weekend, Director Natalie Novacek choose an adaptation by actor/playwright Kate Hamill, whom the Wall Street Journal awarded  Playwright of the Year in 2017. Known for her contemporary takes on classical novels, Hamill channels Austin's spirit by incorporating forty percent of her original text, and invokes sixty percent of Hamill's innovation to create the hybrid script. This method abridges the lengthy literary novel  and allows for immense interpretation where audiences will ultimately benefit and enjoy.
BWW Review: A BRONX TALE in Minneapolis
by Kristen Hirsch Montag - February 25, 2019
Starting with promise, this show never fulfilled it as a rushed copy of WEST SIDE STORY never clicked.
Join Mixed Blood For The Theatrical Thrill Ride AUTONOMY
by BWW News Desk - February 25, 2019
Recognizing auto design as a great American art form, the disappearance of car cruising as spectator sport, and the growth of autonomous vehicles, Mixed Blood presents AUTONOMY in which auto enthusiasts, theater aficionados, and climate change activists will be transformed. Intimate groups depart every ten minutes for two hours, winding through the snaking path of this environmental thriller, hearing the scenes through ear buds, and getting a tour through Detroit and Silicon Valley as they whiz through this car-based play which foreshadows the most seismic change in transportation history, that may just solve the global climate crisis.
BWW Review: World Premiere of BENEVOLENCE at Penumbra Theatre
by Karen Bovard - 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. It's also important, because it takes us beyond what we think we know to detail the aftermath of Till's violent death on two couples, one white, one black, all real historical figures. Penumbra Theatre in Saint Paul is mounting the world premiere under Talvin Wilks' direction.
BWW Feature: Inclusive and Contemporary AS YOU LIKE IT at Guthrie Theater
by Karen Bovard - 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. Her intent was fueled, in part, by her own memories of going to theater as a child, and loving it, but never seeing someone who looked like her on stage; she is of South Asian descent. This production is, in Jadhwani's words, meant to be "hereish and nowish" and is informed by a deliberately intersectional feminist lens.
Theater Latté Da Announces The Cast Of HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH
by BWW News Desk - February 21, 2019
Theater Latte Da announces the cast for John Cameron Mitchell's genre-bending, fourth-wall-smashing sensation Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Winner of 2014 Tony award for Best Musical Revival, Hedwig and the Angry Inch features music and lyrics by Stephen Trask. Annie Enneking and Theater Latte Da Artistic Director Peter Rothstein co-direct the production with Music Director Jason Hansen. Performances begin March 27 at the Ritz Theater (345 13th Avenue NE in Minneapolis).
BWW Review: POTTED POTTER: THE UNAUTHORIZED HARRY EXPERIENCE at Hennepin Theatre Trust
by Brett Burger - February 20, 2019
When I hear the word "magic" I automatically think of two things. There is the magic of theatre and of course one of my favorite stories from when I was a little kid and that is the magical world of Harry Potter. Audiences in the Twin Cities can now be treated to two of my favorite magical things...at the same time! The show Potted Potter - An Unauthorized Harry Experience is now playing at the Pantages Theatre in downtown Minneapolis.
DEAR EVAN HANSEN Tickets On Sale Feb. 22nd
by BWW News Desk - February 20, 2019
Hennepin Theatre Trust announced today that individual tickets for the Minneapolis premiere of DEAR EVAN HANSEN will go on sale on Friday, Feb. 22. DEAR EVAN HANSEN comes to the historic Orpheum Theatre (910 Hennepin Ave.) as part of the 2018-2019 Bank of America Broadway on Hennepin series Tuesday, May 28 to Sunday, June 9, 2019. Due to unprecedented demand during the presale, tickets are expected to sell quickly.
JazzMN Orchestra's 20th Anniversary Celebration and Season Finale this April
by BWW News Desk - February 19, 2019
The acclaimed JazzMN Orchestra will hold its final concert of the season on April 8th, 2019 on Chanhassen Dinner Theatres' Main Stage. The concert marks its season finale, also marking JazzMN's 20th anniversary celebration event.
BWW Review: Guthrie's AS YOU LIKE IT Promises Hip Hop Lovers' Trysts in the Forest
by Peggy Sue Dunigan - February 19, 2019
Deep into the Minneapolis midwinter ice and snow, book a ticket for the Guthrie's As You Like It on the Wurtele Thrust Stage and travel to the forest. William Shakespeare's tribute to the delights and folly of love. Set in the Forest of Ardenne, the evening promises a brief respite to city life in this playful and complex comedy set in contemporary times under the debut Guthrie direction of Lavina Jadhwani.
Freshwater Theatre Presents A True Crime Tale, Told By The Victims
by BWW News Desk - February 19, 2019
Freshwater Theatre proudly presents The Drowning Girls, a spellbinding original drama by Canadian playwrights Beth Graham, Daniela Vlaskalic and Charlie Tomlinson.
BWW Review: CTC Creates Magic this Midwinter in THE BIGGEST LITTLE HOUSE IN THE FOREST
by Peggy Sue Dunigan - February 18, 2019
Riding a bicycle into the  theater, similar to a charming pied piper, Autumn Ness, rings a bell to call the tiny tot audience into the Gargill Studio at Children's Theatre Company in Minneapolis. In CTC'S production,The Biggest Little House in the Forest, a play adapted from the picture book by Dijemma Bider, Ness invites her audience in while saying 'Winter's outside, but it's spring in the theatre.'
Hennepin Theatre Trust, zAmya Theater And The Salvation Army's Harbor Light Center To Share Real-Life Stories Of Homelessness
by BWW News Desk - February 18, 2019
Hennepin Theatre Trust announced today a new collaboration with zAmya Theater and The Salvation Army's Harbor Light Center to present a theater production about homelessness, created and performed by people who have experienced it. STORIES FROM THE BOOK OF HARBOR LIGHT will be presented at 900 Hennepin on Friday, March 15, 2019 at 6 p.m. with a reception at 5:30 p.m. A donation of $20 is suggested. Our goal is to bring together a socially diverse audience. No one will be turned away due to inability to pay.
Theater Latté Da To Receive $10,000 Grant From The National Endowment For The Arts
by BWW News Desk - February 18, 2019
National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Acting Chairman Mary Anne Carter has approved more than $27 million in grants as part of the Arts Endowment's first major funding announcement for fiscal year 2019.  Included in this announcement is an Art Works grant of $10,000 to Theater Latte Da for the NEXT Generation Commissions, a new musical theater commissioning and development opportunity with a focus on women playwrights and writers of color. Art Works is the Arts Endowment's principal grantmaking program. The agency received 1,605 Art Works applications for this round of grantmaking and will award 972 grants in this category.
Gadfly Theatre Productions Presents 60 Queer Plays in 90 Minutes
by BWW News Desk - February 18, 2019
What can you experience 60 of for $20 in 90 minutes? Plays! At least you can with "I'm Never Going to Earth Again: 60 Queer Plays in 90 Queer Minutes". You won't believe your eyes as you become immersed in this fast-paced amalgamation of one-act plays, monologues, chants, improv, song, and dance. Tantalizing and vulnerable works of sci-fi, magical realism and fantasy allow us to tell you what is important to us. Walk a mile alongside us with the realism and absurdism of family, mental illness, queer community, grief, love, and zombies. Whether you are an alien, a euphemism, a healer or the God of Death, you will find something titillating to stimulate your senses.
BWW Review: World Premiere of Fast, Funny, Smart STEWARDESS! at History Theatre
by Karen Bovard - February 18, 2019
Briskly written and dynamically staged, this world premiere tells a complicated, true, little known story with wit and economy. From the early days of commercial airlines, stewardesses were hired based on looks, required to pass weekly weight checks, forbidden to wear glasses or marry, and fired automatically when they reached age 32. They were also not allowed to apply for the higher paying bursar jobs. Though it took decades, literally, a stewardess named Mary Pat Laffey got all that to change, persisting with a lawsuit under Equal Employment statutes that derive directly from the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
CTC Announces 2019-2020 Season
by BWW News Desk - February 18, 2019
Children's Theatre Company (CTC) is proud to announce the global 2019 - 2020 Season, including two CTC commissioned works, two international presentations, surprising reimagined classic fairy tales, and exciting musicals. This season will feature a wide range of productions that will engage conversations and create memories. Earlier in January, CTC announced that Rajane Katurah (former CTC Performing Apprentice) has accepted the position of Company Member, joining Autumn Ness, Dean Holt, Reed Sigmund, and Gerald Drake for the 2019 - 2020 Season.
MPLS Theatre Company Makes Long-Awaited Comeback
by BWW News Desk - February 14, 2019
"How transitory we be all day." As these final lines of the 16th century play, Everyman, were uttered, director Jeremy Stanbary had no idea how prescient the words would be. 
Theatre Novi Most Opens New Show THE HUMAN VOICE March 7-10
by BWW News Desk - February 14, 2019
Theatre Novi Most presents a new project - The Human Voice (La Voix Humain), based on the 1928 play by French playwright Jean Cocteau.
Marilyn Maye to Honor Nat King Cole in March
by BWW News Desk - February 14, 2019
Marvelous Marilyn Maye, at the peak of a miraculous career at 90, returns to Minneapolis for the first time since 2010 for a four-show major engagement at the lakeside supper club Crooners in March.  Maye, a practitioner without peer of a classic American nightclub style that Crooners audiences are embracing, plays the club's newly refurbished, 200-seat Crooners MainStage in back-to-back early and late shows (5:30pm and 8pm), on Saturday and Sunday March 23 and 24.  Joining her for this four-show weekend stand will be her New York music director Tedd Firth on piano, leading a trio with locals Gary Raynor on bass (a Maye vet) and David Schmalenberger on drums.
The Church Basement Ladies Return to Ames Center Black Box Theatre
by BWW News Desk - February 14, 2019
The beloved Church Basement Ladies are back and getting busy with life outside the kitchen. Introducing 'Church Basement Ladies: You Smell Barn,' the seventh installment in the popular Church Basement Ladies series. The new show finally answers the burning question: What do Church Basement Ladies do when they're not in the basement? 'You Smell Barn' opens September 12, 2018 and runs through February 14, 2019, in a new location -the Ames Center Black Box Theatre in Burnsville, MN.
BWW Review: Compact, All-Female Cast ANTIGONE at Park Square Theatre
by Karen Bovard - February 13, 2019
Let's remember: Antigone was a teenager. This 90 minute intermissionless ANTIGONE is calibrated to work beautifully as a week day field trip for high school students, and succeeds equally well for adult audiences who may be a little rusty on the ancient Greek tale of Oedipus and his offspring. Some 2,500 students will see this show up close: the basement thrust stage is quite intimate. You can't be more than a few rows from the action. Thus lots of teenagers will be confronted with one of the world's great plays, one that turns on themes of family loyalty, ethics, leadership and fate. Creative high school teachers can spin lessons off this for days, in all manner of directions, including the legal and historic grounding for contemporary human rights law.
Tickets For Bill Maher At Hennepin Theatre Trust Go On Sale Friday
by BWW News Desk - February 12, 2019
Comedian, writer, producer and star of HBO's "Real Time," BILL MAHER, returns to Minneapolis at the historic State Theatre (805 Hennepin Ave., Minneapolis) on Saturday, Aug. 17 at 8 p.m. For more than 25 years, Bill Maher has set the boundaries of where funny, political talk can go on American television.  First on "Politically Incorrect" (Comedy Central, ABC, 1993-2002), and for the last 16 years on HBO's "Real Time," Maher's combination of unflinching honesty and big laughs have garnered him 41 Emmy nominations. 
Harry Potter Parody POTTED POTTER Comes To The Pantages
by BWW News Desk - February 12, 2019
After several successful North American Tours, Starvox Entertainment and Potted Productions are bringing London's West End hit POTTED POTTER: THE UNAUTHORIZED HARRY EXPERIENCE - A PARODY BY DAN AND JEFF to Minneapolis, presented by Hennepin Theatre Trust. Created by two-time Olivier Award-nominated actors and BBC Television presenters Daniel Clarkson and Jefferson Turner, the show will continue its 2018 North American tour in San Antonio. Playing for the first time in Minneapolis at the historic Pantages Theatre (710 Hennepin Ave., Minneapolis) today, Feb. 12 to Sunday, March 10, 2019, Minnesotans can be be enchanted by this magical production.

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