by Joe Sarafolean - March 08, 2026
What did our critic think of DINOSAUR WORLD LIVE at Children's Theatre Company?...
by Jared Fessler - March 08, 2026
What did our critic think of STRANGE HEART: THE DREAM SONGS OF JOHN BERRYMAN at Open Eye Theatre And Skinny Dog Production?...
by Jared Fessler - March 07, 2026
Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None has been keeping readers and audiences guessing for decades, and Lyric Arts’ current production shows why the story still works so well. Running through March 22 in Anoka, the play delivers plenty of suspense, a steady build of tension, and a mystery th...
by Jared Fessler - March 06, 2026
On February 27, 2026, I made the drive from Minneapolis down to the Des Moines Performing Arts Civic Center to catch the national tour of The Outsiders. I’d been hearing a lot of buzz about the show, and since it hasn’t made its way up to Minnesota yet, I figured it was worth the road trip to se...
by Jared Fessler - March 05, 2026
Seeing The Music Man in Mason City just feels right. When the new national tour came through the North Iowa Area Community Auditorium, it felt a little different than seeing a typical touring Broadway show. This is the town where the musical’s creator, Meredith Willson, was born and raised, so the...
by Jared Fessler - March 04, 2026
Water for Elephants has officially set up shop at the Orpheum Theatre, and it honestly doesn’t take long to get swept up in it. From the start, it feels less like you’re sitting in a theatre seat and more like you’ve wandered backstage at a traveling circus that just happens to break into song...
by Jared Fessler - March 01, 2026
What did our critic think of AS YOU LIKE IT at Novagrex?...
by Jared Fessler - March 01, 2026
What did our critic think of DISNEY ON ICE ROAD TRIP ADVENTURE at Target Center Minneapolis?...
by Jared Fessler - February 25, 2026
Some musicals are flashy and loud, but Kimberly Akimbo captivates quietly, drawing you in with humor, heart, and honesty. From the first moment on stage, it becomes clear that this is a story about people — messy, awkward, hopeful people — rather than spectacle....
by Jared Fessler - February 24, 2026
Seeing Glen Phillips at the Dakota Jazz Club on February 23 felt easy in the best way. No production, no band, no big entrance. It was just him, a guitar, and a room full of people who really wanted to be there....
Past Shows
BRKFST Dance Company presents two wildly different works of art in celebration of their 10-year anniversary. BRKFST continues to “show us the future of dance”...
“If there were prizes for wiliness in dancing, David Zambrano would win them all. He looks deft enough to slip through cracks, dive into keyholes,...
“Tortoise is one of the rare groups that defy easy classification despite their status as founding fathers of the late-‘90s post-rock boom.” —Paste Magazine Chicago’s...
“Melodramatic, witty, inventive and downright intoxicating. I was not fully prepared for the sheer genius that is FUTURITY.” —Music Slut As the Civil War rages...
“As a performer, Seun is far more of a chip off the old block than Femi, and with a gruffer and more streetwise sounding vocal...
“Raw folk and electronically assisted sonic richness, in an improbably captivating mix.” —The Oregonian This groundbreaking collective of composers/performers (and old Vermont friends) blurs the...
“Joseph is the real deal, swinging with such confidence that you grasp for adjectives to capture his skills.” —Star Tribune Spoken word/hip-hop theater artist Marc...
“Vijay Iyer is, simply put, one of the most interesting and vital young pianists in jazz today.” —Pitchfork Thursday, March 1 : Wadada Leo Smith...
“[Jones’s] gifts: pungent, purposeful character development, compelling storytelling and pure-dance interludes of slippery and often deeply romantic choreography.” —Washington Post Bill T. Jones, one of...
“Pensotti has a fine facility with irony, with the fine balance between comedy and tragedy and, most of all, with the ability to capture an...
“chelfitsch is one of the most acclaimed phenomena in Japan’s theater scene from the last decade.” — CNN Known for his stylized hybrids of oddly...
“[He is] to Beirut what the Wooster Group is to New York: a blend of avant-garde innovation, conceptual complexity and political urgency, all grounded in...
“She offers the pleasure of brazen theatrical inventiveness.” —New Yorker “My work has never been about lecturing and bullying people,” says Young Jean Lee. “It’s...
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