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Showing posts with label Barb Portinga. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Barb Portinga. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 29, 2026

"The Hired Man" by Theatre Pro Rata at the Crane Theater

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This fall, Theatre Pro Rata is bringing us a new play by local playwright/ actor/ improvisor Heather Meyer that feels like a modern Sam Shep...
Monday, September 28, 2026

"Wife of a Salesman" by Girl Friday Productions at Gremlin Theatre

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A decade or so ago, Girl Friday Productions' performance model was one show every two years , focusing on large-cast American classics, ...
Monday, October 13, 2025

"For Peter Pan on Her 70th Birthday" by Prime Productions at Mixed Blood Theatre

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Now in their 8th season of telling stories about women in their prime (at a time when we start to become invisible in society), Prime Produc...
Saturday, April 26, 2025

"Joyful Noise" by Bucket Brigade at Art House North

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The play with music Joyful Noise tells the story of the creation of Handel's Messiah , " one of the best-known and most frequently...
Sunday, March 16, 2025

"Patience" by The Gilbert and Sullivan Very Light Opera Company at the Conn Theater

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Just when I think I've seen every Gilbert and Sullivan show, The Gilbert and Sullivan Very Light Opera Company (GSVLOC) introduces me to...
Sunday, November 3, 2024

"The McAdo" by The Gilbert and Sullivan Very Light Opera Company at the Conn Theater

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If you can't wait for new episodes of Outlander to begin on November 22, maybe you should go see The Gilbert and Sullivan Very Light Op...
Saturday, September 21, 2024

"Survivors of the Fire" by Bucket Brigade at Art House North

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I love a new original historical musical, and Bucket Brigade's Survivors of the Fire is a good one. The stories of the survivors of the...
Friday, May 10, 2024

"Torch Song" at Six Points Theater

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A few years ago, Broadway legend Harvey Fierstein wrote a new adaptation of his 1982 play Torch Song Trilogy (for which he won two of his f...
Sunday, October 1, 2023

"The Gospel According to Thomas Jefferson, Charles Dickens and Count Leo Tolstoy: Discord" by Bucket Brigade at Art House North

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My favorite kind of play is a two-hander - just two people sitting in a room talking. The awkwardly titled  The Gospel According to Thomas J...
Sunday, November 6, 2022

"Pirates of Penzance" by Gilbert and Sullivan Very Light Opera Company at Howard Conn Fine Arts Center

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In their first fall production, Gilbert and Sullivan Very Light Opera Company, the only local company dedicated to the silly, witty, and del...
Saturday, August 20, 2022

"Groupthink" at Six Points Theater

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The 2022-2023 #TCTheater season officially begins after Labor Day, but Six Points Theater is bringing us a juicy appetizer prior to the star...
Sunday, March 20, 2022

"Ruddigore; or, The Witch's Curse" by the Gilbert and Sullivan Very Light Opera Company at the Howard Conn Fine Arts Center

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Another 2020 "ghost show" has returned! (And this one is a "ghost show" in more ways than one.) The Gilbert and Sullivan...
Monday, October 22, 2018

"The Last Schwartz" by Minnesota Jewish Theatre Company at the Highland Park Center Theatre

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Minnesota Jewish Theatre Company brings us another modern (well, late '90s) Jewish family trying to maintain their cultural identity ...
Sunday, June 10, 2018

"Flashback" by Alive & Kickin at Bloomington Center for the Arts

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If you think growing older is a drag, then you've never seen Alive & Kickin, a choir full of "seniors that rock." Led by...
Sunday, March 4, 2018

"Princess Ida" by Gilbert and Sullivan Very Light Opera Company at Howard Conn Fine Arts Center

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This is the fourth year in a row I've attended Gilbert and Sullivan Very Light Opera Company 's spring production of, you guessed ...
Thursday, October 26, 2017

"Church and State" by Minnesota Jewish Theatre at Highland Park Center Theatre

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"God is a concept by which we measure our pain," John Lennon sang . Or to put it another way, in the movie Corrina, Corrina  whe...
Monday, July 31, 2017

"Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" at Artistry

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When I heard Artistry was opening their 2017-2018 season with Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat , I thought, "Why?" ...
Monday, January 30, 2017

"Miranda" at Illusion Theater

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The titular character of James Still's new play Miranda is like Homeland 's Carrie Mathison, but more grounded in reality, withou...
Friday, October 28, 2016

"Black Death: The Musical" by Apostasia Productions at Sabes JCC Theater

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The new original musical Black Death: The Musical runs for three performances only , just in time for Halloween. I was invited to attend ...
Monday, October 10, 2016

"The Kalevala" by nimbus theatre at The Crane Theater

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What's The Crane Theater, you ask? It's nimbus theatre 's brand new theater space in Northeast Minneapolis. Less than a year a...