It's the summer of Noël Coward in #TCTheater, and after the long hard winter we had, we deserve some summer escapist comedies. Last mont...

Back in 2021, the Artistic Director of Six Points Theater (then called Minnesota Jewish Theatre) Barbara Brooks created a virtual musical re...

On my way home from St. Croix Festival Theatre to see their super fun production of Kate Hamill's Ms. Holmes and Ms. Watson, Apt. 2B la...

The 2015 (and 2016) Broadway play An Act of God , written by former The Daily Show head writer David Javerbaum, is delightfully irreverent ...

The new play Witch , by Playwrights' Center affiliated writer Jen Silverman  (author of The Roommate and The Moors ), is an absurd and ...

I don't know when Six Points Theater decided to produce the new play The Messenger by Playwrights' Center affiliated writer Jenny C...

The 1929 play Rope , which was adapted into a 1948 film by Alfred Hitchcock, is now receiving fine treatment on the Gremlin Theatre stage. W...

Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice can be problematic, with its ant-Semitic representation of the greedy Jewish moneylender, yet it a...

Fortune's Fool Theatre's new original musical Cold Planet Warm Heart is billed as "a warm-hearted, family-friendly science fic...

Fresh from a successful Off-Broadway run, the new play The Wanderers by Anna Ziegler opened at Six Points Theater last weekend. The compell...

To open their historic 71st season, Theatre in the Round is presenting the 2005 Tony-winning best play Doubt: A Parable . In roughly 90 minu...

Zephyr Theatre's summer outdoor Shakespeare tradition continues with the rom-com-turned-tragedy Romeo and Juliet at an idyllic spot on ...

Now playing at the oldest theater in Minneapolis: the 2015 Pulitzer Prize finalist  Marjorie Prime . This is the third show in Theatre in th...

The first act of Minneapolis Musical Theatre's Daddy Long Legs , playing at the historic James J. Hill House, is perfectly lovely. I ...

"A sports play written by Mat Smart? I'm in! (See also Tinker to Evers to Chance .)" I wrote this on Instagram last night, b...

Do you know who your local community theater is? There are so many great community theaters in the #TCTheater area that it's impossibl...

The subtitle of Bill Cain's play Equivocation could be, It's Hard to Be the Bard . It's hard to be the bard at a time when one...

I first saw Arthur Miller's 1953 play  The Crucible   last spring at the Guthrie , and was wowed at how this story about the infamous ...

Consider this my annual plug for Loudmouth Collective , one of my favorite new theater companies, if you can still call them "new...

I love a summer mystery at Park Square Theatre . Taking a break from Sherlock Holmes ( The Adventure of the Suicide Club last year and Th...