Children's Theatre Company is returning to The Wizard of Oz , one of the classic adaptations in their repertoire, but one they haven...

Sickle is a brutal play that's tough to watch. This is not a play to go to for a fun night out and to forget your troubles. It's a ...

In my day job, I work in clinical trials. I'm not a researcher in the clinics working with patients, I sit at home in my living room ana...

The Tony-nominated musical  A Year with Frog and Toad  has returned to where it began - the  Children's Theatre . It's been back a f...

The world premiere new play Hells Canyon is a revenge fantasy, in which the revenge comes almost 140 years after the crime - the murder of ...

How did it take more than 35 years for the animated movie musical An American Tail to be adapted into a stage musical?! I guess because it...

It's the most wonderful time of the year* - time to return to Christmas at Pemberley at the Jungle Theater. Playwrights Lauren Gunderso...

Stephen Sondheim was 91 when he died last November, but it still felt too soon, like there was still more he could do and write and say. But...

Once again, Lyric Arts in Anoka is bringing us the regional premiere of a new(ish) Broadway musical (see also 2018's If/Then and 2019...

Nine months ago, Minnesota Jewish Theatre Company began their "Theater Six Feet Apart" season with an outdoor production of 25 Que...

Jungle Theater's first ever virtual play Is Edward Snowden Single? is one of the best uses of this new medium that I've seen. Playw...

As frequent readers of this blog may know, I'm not generally a fan of turning movies into musicals. And I'm not sure that the  199...

Happy New Year #TCTheater friends! This is the 10th year-end wrap up I have written on this blog ; this summer I will mark 10 years of wri...

"This is the most wonderfully weird musical I've ever seen and the cast is perfection. I wish I could see it again and again and ...

"Friends, @jungletheater's Small Mouth Sounds is exactly my kind of play: awkward, funny, profound, and full of one of my favori...

Children's Theatre Company proves that you don't need eight hours, the most advanced technology for visual effects, and 765 milli...

The Jungle Theater's production of playwright Sarah DeLappe's story of a girls' soccer team,  The Wolves  (a finalist for th...

Artistry's Mary Poppins may be just the thing you need right now. That is, an escape from reality into the magical world of everyone...

I've seen Into the Woods twice in the last six weeks, and six times in the last seven years (not counting the recent movie adaptatio...

I don't do sports. Except for being a lifelong Twins fan (and running an occasional marathon), I have zero interest in sports. I didn...