Review: DIRTY DANCING THE MUSICAL at Ordway Center For The Performing Arts
What did our critic think of DIRTY DANCING THE MUSICAL at Ordway Center For The Performing Arts?…
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Review: GUY FOR NOW at Rarig Nolte Xperimental Theatre
What did our critic think of GUY FOR NOW at Rarig Nolte Xperimental Theatre?…
Review: HELL ON WHEELS at Barbara Barker Center For Dance
What did our critic think of HELL ON WHEELS at Barbara Barker Center For Dance?…
Review: SMALL MINDED at The Southern Theater
What did our critic think of SMALL MINDED at The Southern Theater?…
Review: WATERSHIP DOWN at Rarig Stoll Thrust Theatre
I wasn’t sure what to expect going into Watership Down at the Minnesota Fringe Festival. I knew the general story but wasn’t very familiar with Richard Adams’ novel. What I found was a creative and surprisingly moving production that uses music and movement to bring the story to life.…
Review: CATCH ME IF YOU CAN at Ashland Productions
With a book by Terrence McNally, music by Marc Shaiman, and lyrics by Shaiman and Scott Wittman, Catch Me If You Can follows Frank Abagnale Jr., a teenager who runs away from home and begins creating new identities for himself. He poses as an airline pilot, doctor, and lawyer, all while passing forg…
Review: BANGS! at Rarig Kilburn Theatre
Bangs! is a horror-comedy that tackles a subject that is anything but funny. Presented by The Other Productions at the Rarig Kilburn Theatre as part of the Minnesota Fringe Festival, the show takes place backstage at a drag show when a shooting breaks out at a gay bar.…
Review: LOVE IS BLIND - MINNESOTA FRINGE EDITION at Strike Theatre
I do enjoy reality TV, but when it comes to Love Is Blind, I’ve only watched the Minnesota season. So I knew all about the pods, the engagements, the weddings, and the drama going into Improvised Love Is Blind — Minnesota Fringe Edition at Strike Theater.…
Review: ED SHEERAN LOOP TOUR at U.S. Bank Stadium
Ed Sheeran brought hits, fan requests, and a surprise Beoga appearance to U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis. Read our full concert review.…
Review: DROPPING MY COVER STORIES at Rarig Kilburn Theatre
Patrick McGraw has a simple question at the center of Dropping My Cover Stories: why would a grown man decide that learning to do a somersault in a swimming pool is a good idea?…
Past Shows
16 total · showing 1–10
Theatre Elision presents: Terce, a practical Breviary
Terce: A Practical Breviary is a radical rethinking of a monastic 9:00 AM mass and an adaptation that reimagines the face of the “Holy Spirit” through the lens of the Divine Feminine. Sung by a choir of caregivers and makers, it is a wild meditation/celebration of the sacred...
Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812
From the award-winning composer Dave Malloy comes Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812, an electropop opera based on a slice of Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace. Young and impulsive, Natasha Rostova arrives in Moscow to await the return of her fiance from the war. When she falls...
Ghost Quartet
Theatre Elision returns with Ghost Quartet for its seventh year! Ghost Quartet is a song cycle about love, death and whiskey from Dave Malloy, the Tony-nominated creator of the Broadway hit “Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812.” A camera breaks and four friends drink in...
Penelope
Many of us are familiar with The Odyssey, the epic poem composed around the 8th century BC and telling the story of Odysseus as he works his way home to Ithaca after fighting in the Trojan War. His journey takes ten years — the same amount of time the war lasted. This means that...
Theatre Elision presents: HUNDRED DAYS
“Hundred Days” is an exhilarating and heartrending true story about embracing uncertainty, taking a leap, and loving as if you only had 100 days to live. With magnetic chemistry and anthemic folk-rock music, creators Abigail and Shaun Bengson explore a fundamental question: how...
Ghost Quartet
Welcome to Theatre Elision’s sixth year presenting Ghost Quartet, a Twin Cities spooky tradition! Ghost Quartet is a song cycle about love, death and whiskey from Dave Malloy, the Tony-nominated creator of the Broadway hit “Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812.” A camera...
Penelope
We've all heard the tale of Odysseus and his many adventures as he returns home from the Trojan War. But what about his wife back on Ithaca? Penelope tells the story of the wife who waits, told by one woman behind the piano through humor, bitterness, hope, and tenderness It is a...
IN THE GREEN
As a young girl, medieval saint, healer, visionary, exorcist, and composer Hildegard von Bingen was locked in a cloister’s cell after demonstrating a preternatural sensitivity to the world around her. Sequestered with Hildegard is Jutta, a woman who has spent her life secluded...
Dave Malloy's Ghost Quartet
Ghost Quartet is a song cycle about love, death and whiskey from Dave Malloy, the Tony-nominated creator of the Broadway hit “Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812.” A camera breaks and four friends drink in an interwoven tale spanning seven centuries, with a murderous...
Ruthless!
Theatre Elision presents: Ruthless! Music by Marvin Laird ~ Book and Lyrics by Joel Paley "Ruthless" is a hilarious musical that has been an off-broadway smash hit since premiering in 1992, and was a Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle award winner. This all-female production...
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Dirty Dancing: The Musical Ordway Center for the Performing Arts (8/12-9/06) |
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Clue - Live on Stage! Orhpeum Theatre (10/09-10/11) |
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Emily Johnson / Catalyst: Overflow Radio Northrop (10/09-10/12) |
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Legally Blonde Ordway Center for the Performing Arts (2/19-2/21) |
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Rocky Horror Picture Show Original Cast Spooktacular Tour with Barry Bostwick, Nell Campbell, and Patricia Quinn Hennepin Arts (10/01-10/01) |
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Student Matinee: Ronald K. Brown/EVIDENCE Featuring TU Dance Northrop (10/02-10/30) |
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Encore Gala With Complexions Contemporary Ballet Northrop (3/20-3/20) |
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“Il Cimento dell’Armonia e dell’Inventione” (Vivaldi’s “The Four Seasons”) The Walker Art Center (4/16-4/17) |
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Menopause The Musical Ames Center (11/03-11/03) |
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An Evening with David Sedaris State Theatre (10/17-10/17) |