The new play One-Shot , premiering at Six Points Theater, takes us back to 1999, when we rented VHS tapes from video stores to watch movies ...

"Family first, family second, family last. And we are all family." When Six Points Theater programmed the solo play The Happiest M...

NYC-based comedian Alex Edelman's comedy special Just for Us , about that time he, a Jewish man, attended a White Nationalist meeting in...

Wrapping up an excellent season of world premieres, the History Theatre is bringing us another gem of a local story - Blended Harmony: The K...

Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice can be problematic, with its ant-Semitic representation of the greedy Jewish moneylender, yet it a...

The day before Halloween at my chosen place of worship, the sermon was about ghosts. And that maybe ghosts aren't the spooky thing we th...

The only play I saw live and in person in the last ten months of 2020 was Minnesota Jewish Theatre Company's 25 Questions for a Jewish M...

"When the wind blows, the cradle will rock." This sweet and innocent lullaby takes on a whole new meaning in Frank Theatre's...

Whistle blowers. Leaking confidential information to the press. A scientist who isn't believed. A politician covering the scientific t...

King Lear is considered one of Shakespeare's best tragedies, and the title role one of the most challenging roles to play in all of t...

A rich, greedy, selfish old man with no regard for his fellow human beings, especially those that are different from him, that are sufferi...

The Realistic Joneses is an odd little play. But I shouldn't be surprised; the other Will Eno play I've seen ( Thom Pain (based o...

The Woman in Black , a two-person play that's another perfect choice for Yellow Tree Theatre 's intimate space, is a story-within-...

Charles Dickens' novella A Christmas Carol has become a staple of holiday traditions. It shouldn't be surprising, then, that this...

The story of Cyrano de Bergerac is one everyone knows, even if you haven't seen one of the many dramatic interpretations of this 17th ...

You can always count on the Guthrie's annual production of A Christmas Carol * for perfectly satisfactory holiday entertainment. Charl...

Red  is my kind of play. More about character and ideas than plot or action, it's a feast for the ears and the mind. And the eye, with...

My current favorite TV show is AMC's The Walking Dead , about a small group of people trying to survive a zombie apocalypse.  I'm no...

The Christmas season has officially begun - we had our first snowfall here in the Twin Cities over the weekend, and I saw the Guthrie's ...

My season ticket for the proscenium theater at the Guthrie (the rectangular, red one) is in the front row.  Those are the cheap seats, un...