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Showing posts with label Benjamin McGovern. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Benjamin McGovern. Show all posts
Saturday, August 27, 2022

"God of Carnage" by Dark and Stormy Productions at Gremlin Theatre

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For their 10th anniversary season, Dark and Stormy Productions is trying something new - performing in an actual theater, rather than the N...
Tuesday, September 17, 2019

"Our Town" at Artistry

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Thornton Wilder's Our Town is an American classic, first produced over 80 years ago, and continuing through the years with frequent p...
Sunday, July 21, 2019

"Footloose" at Artistry

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Artistry is opening their 2019-2020 season with the musical adaptation of the hit 1984 movie Footloose . I've seen it once before, a...
Monday, September 17, 2018

"Awake and Sing!" at Artistry

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I love sad plays. I love stories of miserable families who love each other but don't know how to express it in healthy ways. Awake and...
Monday, January 29, 2018

"Noises Off" at Artistry

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For the first time that I can remember, Artistry is staging a musical in their smaller black box space, and a play in their larger traditi...
Tuesday, May 9, 2017

"Wit" at Artistry

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I don't know where to begin with this one. Artistry's production of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit is simply devastating. Bu...
Monday, October 24, 2016

"The Baker's Wife" at Artistry

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I had a rare experience at the theater yesterday - I went to see a musical I knew nothing about and was absolutely charmed by it. Stephen ...
Friday, June 3, 2016

"And So It Goes" by Dark and Stormy Productions at Grain Belt Warehouse

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"If this isn't nice, I don't know what the hell is." This quote by American author Kurt Vonnegut  is also a line in Cana...
Monday, January 25, 2016

"The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas" at Artistry

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In one of those strange local theater programming coincidences, I have seen The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas twice in the last year, a...
Friday, May 1, 2015

"Next to Normal" at Yellow Tree Theatre

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"I don't need a life that's normal, that's way too far away. But something next to normal would be OK. Yes something next...
Monday, December 15, 2014

"The Hothouse" by Dark and Stormy Productions at the Artspace Grain Belt Bottling House

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I admit it - I don't get Pinter. Dark and Stormy 's production of The Hothouse is the third play I've seen by English playwr...
Saturday, May 17, 2014

"Drunken City" by Dark & Stormy Productions at the Lyric at Carleton Place

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New theater company Dark & Stormy Productions is really hitting their stride; they've become one of those theater companies that ...
Saturday, December 14, 2013

"The Receptionist" by Dark & Stormy Productions at The Traffic Zone Center for Visual Art

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Dark & Stormy Productions continues their tradition of short, smart, sharply written plays performed by excellent small casts in non-...
Saturday, July 13, 2013

"Camino Real" by Girl Friday Productions at the Minneapolis Theatre Garage

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I love the plays of Tennessee Williams - from the well known A Streetcar Named Desire and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof , to the lesser known Su...
Monday, May 13, 2013

"An Iliad" at the Guthrie Theater

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Stepping off the elevator onto the 9th floor of the Guthrie Theater , I was treated to a site I've never seen before, despite having s...
Sunday, February 24, 2013

"Speed-the-Plow" by Dark & Stormy Productions at the Miller Bag Building

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the playbill for Speed-the-Plow , constructed as a movie script with typewriter font and brass fasteners holding it together Today is ...
Wednesday, November 2, 2011

"The Edge of Our Bodies" at the Guthrie Theater

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When I walked into the Guthrie's Dowling Studio theater last night to see* The Edge of Our Bodies , the star of the show, Ali Rose Dach...