Back in 2010 (the birth year of Cherry and Spoon), Illusion Theater won two Ivey Awards (remember the Ivey Awards , Minnesota's own Ton...

It's only April, and already we've been treated to two new original small-cast one-act musicals starring #TCTheater veteran Bradley ...

I have to admit, I'd never heard of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet John Berryman , who taught at the University of Minnesota for much of hi...

To begin their 28th season of doing theater musically, Theater Latte Da is celebrating their 100th show with a wonderful cabaret that highli...

Updating my Sondheim spreadsheet this morning (because of course I have a Sondheim spreadsheet), I have now seen ten of the 17 musicals for ...

Six years after taking over as Artistic Director of Ten Thousand Things from founder Michelle Hensley, Marcela Lorca is directing her final ...

I'm not sure what I expected from the new work of music-theater  Johnny Skeeky; or, The Remedy for Everything , based on Puccini's o...

Now in their 26th season, Theater Latte Da has a knack for creating original holiday shows that become annual traditions. First  A Christmas...

I had never heard of Minnesota's youngest governor, Harold Stassen , before seeing a virtual reading of the musical The Boy Wonder as p...

Theater Latte Da is celebrating their 25th season this year, and in that time they've created two beloved holiday* shows. A Christmas Ca...

I know what you're thinking: the classic American film and play Twelve Angry Men ... as a musical?! It sounded pretty odd to me too when...

My favorite Sondheim interpreters, Theater Latte Da , return with Act II of their Celebrating Sondheim cabaret series at Crooners Supper Cl...

Theater Latte Da's re-imagined production of the 19th Century Italian opera  La Bohème , first produced in 2005, and again in 2007, was ...

After 611 long dark days, Theater Latte Da is finally back performing again in their Northeast Minneapolis home, the Ritz Theater. They open...

My second concert at Crooners MainStage Tent , created for this pandemic summer 2020, was a show by a group I've seen several times befo...

Artistry's production of the rarely done 1998 Off-Broadway musical A New Brain is exquisitely lovely, and everything I love about mus...

The team behind the musical historical revues of Leonard Bernstein and Jacques Brel , among others, now turns their talent for crafting a...

Leonard Bernstein is one of the best 20th Century American composers (not to mention pianist and conductor, as I learned last year ). His ...

Theater Latte Da's production of A Little Night Music is pure loveliness from the moment the cast steps onstage behind a sheer curtai...

Leonard Bernstein . I know him mostly as the composer of one of my all-time favorite musical theater scores, West Side Story (now playing...