Unless you've been living under a rock, you're probably aware that there's a new Mamma Mia! movie, a sequel to the 2008 smash...

On Hennepin Avenue in Minneapolis, the Broadway tour of Something Rotten! is celebrating the "must see magical new original musical...

Someone tell the story Someone sing the song Every now and then the country Goes a little wrong Every now and then a mad man's Bo...

The Ordway's recent string of excellent locally produced Broadway sized musicals continues with the popular Andrew Lloyd Webber/Tim R...

Thursday night I attended my 13th show in the Ordway's Broadway Songbook series , an edutainment series about musical theater (I thin...

There's no denying that 2016 has been a less than stellar year, but inside the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts , it's nothin...

I had never even heard of the 1951 Lerner and Loewe musical Paint Your Wagon when the Ordway announced it as part of their season. I gues...

An unpopular high school girl wants to be pretty so she can go to prom with the popular jock. Not exactly a compelling theme for a musical...

Confession: The Sound of Music is a sentimental favorite of mine for many reasons, and I cannot possibly be impartial when watching any v...

In the 12th installment of the Ordway's fun and educational "Broadway Songbook" series ( and the 11th I've seen ), host ...

I interrupt this all-Fringe-all-the-time coverage to bring you some theater news that exists outside of the Fringe Festival. Yes it's...

In the fall of 1987, I was in my second year of junior high, a time that's not kind to a quiet, smart girl with glasses, braces, and f...

In case the Ordway was not sufficiently rocked in the recent month-long " Rock the Ordway " celebration, the rockification conti...

Theater Latte Da and Hennepin Theatre Trust have formed a beautiful partnership called "Broadway Re-Imagined," in which they com...

Every month, Nautilus Music-Theater presents an evening of new works of music-theater in their "Rough Cuts" series. It could be ...

St. Paul's Ordway Center for the Performing Arts is returning to its tradition of an original and (mostly) locally cast production d...

I love going to readings of new works, especially works of music-theater. I've seen some great ones this year (including this and thi...

The Ordway is opening its fourth season of the Broadway Songbook  series with a retrospective of the first 100 years of Broadway. If you...

For their annual summer festival, Skylark Opera is presenting the Leonard Bernstein classic operetta  Candide  and the musical revue  Ber...