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Review: Les Miserables @ The Orpheum Theatre
Much has been made of the fact that the national tour of Les Misérables is a new production, in honor of the show’s 25th anniversary. I went with some trepidation, having loved the original production,...
View ArticleReview: Julius Caesar @ The Guthrie Theater
Julius Caesar may be the perfect parable for our time. Never in the history of mankind have so many leaders, dictators, and wannabe kings been deposed by the rabble or betrayed by their countrymen. And...
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Review: End of the Rainbow @ The Guthrie Theater
Judy Garland’s slow, sad slide into oblivion is one of American entertainment’s most tragic stories. Her death, at 47, from an overdose of Seconal, was stamped from a familiar template for stars...
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American Idiot is surprisingly smart
America’s love affair with stupidity has a long and shameless history, from slavery and Prohibition to professional wrestling, beer pong, and the average political attack ad. The one place you will...
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Michael Jackson: The Immortal World Tour @ Target Center
With Michael Jackson: The Immortal World Tour, brought to you by Cirque du Soleil, the Gloved One has begun his ascension from tragically over-adored celebrity to ridiculously revered rock god. True...
View ArticleThe Guthrie’s Women/Race/Facebook Problem
Ever since the Guthrie Theater announced its 50th Anniversary season two weeks ago, many in the local arts community have been boiling with indignation over the fact that the overwhelming majority of...
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The Walker Arts Center Announces its 2012-13 Performing Arts Season
The Walker Art Center announced its 2012-13 performing arts season on Thursday, and it looks to be another good one. Highlights include a new solo work by performance artist Laurie Anderson, an...
View ArticleThe Guthrie’s Christopher Hampton Festival kicks off with humorous Tales of...
The Guthrie Theater’s seven-week celebration of British playwright Christopher Hampton got off to a good-humored start on Friday night, what with both Twin Cities mayors—Rybak and Coleman—officially...
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Review: Appomattox @ The Guthrie Theater
An epic battle is being waged in Appomattox, Christopher Hampton’s new Civil War/civil-rights play, currently receiving its world premiere at The Guthrie Theater —but it’s not a fight between Yankee...
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Will your brain explode if you see The Book of Mormon?
Permit me to talk seriously for a moment about The Book of Mormon, the sacrilegious song-fest popping eyeballs and frying neurons this week at The Orpheum Theatre. Written by the creators of Comedy...
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Review: The Primrose Path @ The Guthrie is worth walking down
Before discussing the Guthrie’s new play, The Primrose Path, I must admit up front that I have a strong Turgenev bias. In my college Russian Literature class, we slogged through Chekhov, Tolstoy, and...
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Review: War Horse @ The Orpheum
Everyone loves a good horse story, it seems—even if they already know the plot. And War Horse is a great horse story, one virtually everyone in America knows from the beloved Steven Spielberg movie,...
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Review: Billy Crystal’s 700 Sundays @ The State Theatre
What is there to say about Billy Crystal that hasn’t already been said? The man has been part of America’s collective comedic consciousness for almost forty years, and is never far away from a TV or...
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