Monday, October 21, 2024
"Thank You for Holding: The Caregiver Play Project" by Wonderlust Productions at 825 Arts
Saturday, October 19, 2024
"The Lady Demands Satisfaction" by [un]qualified theatre at University Baptist Church
Friday, October 18, 2024
"Bonnie and Clyde" by Collide Theatrical Dance Company at Luminary Arts Center
Wednesday, October 16, 2024
"Some Like It Hot" Broadway tour at the Orpheum Theatre
Monday, October 14, 2024
"Holmes/Poirot" at Park Square Theatre
Sunday, October 13, 2024
"Afterlife: The Experience" by Sparkle Theatricals at the Wabasha Street Caves
Saturday, October 12, 2024
"Irving Berlin's White Christmas" at the Chanhassen Dinner Theatres
Friday, October 11, 2024
"RENT" at Artistry
Wednesday, October 9, 2024
"Ain't Too Proud: The Life and Times of the Temptations" Broadway tour at the Ordway Center
Friday, October 4, 2024
"Speechless" by The Moving Company at Jungle Theater
Tuesday, October 1, 2024
"Measure for Measure" by The Birth Play Project at A-Mill Artist Lofts
My favorite new theater company of 2022, The Birth Play Project, is back, this time with a new twist on a classic. Their new play with music Mary’s Wondrous Body, based on a so-bizarre-it-must-be-true story of a woman who claimed to give birth to rabbits, was indeed wondrous. Now this company whose mission is "to place birth in public memory by developing representational practices for staging reproductive stories" is presenting Shakespeare's Measure for Measure. If you're wondering, "what does this play have to do with birth?," you're not alone. I've seen this play a few times before, and it's always been Isabella's story, a soon-to-be nun who is offered a chance to save her brother Claudio from death, if she sleeps with his accuser Angelo. But so far in the background that I even forgot she was there, is Juliet, Claudio's not-quite-wife, who is pregnant with his child (the crime with which they're both charged). This adaptation by Madeline Wall and William Edson, who also direct the piece, puts the focus on this forgotten woman who is quietly (or not so quietly) giving birth while the other actions of the play swirl around her. It's an engaging and entertaining take on this classic that explores a hidden side of it, and makes one wonder what other birth stories are hiding in the background, waiting to be told. Click here to find out more about The Birth Play Project and to purchase tickets to one of their two remaining performances at Saint John the Evangelist Episcopal Church and Elision Playhouse.