If no theater in the Twin Cities is going to do the gorgeous musical The Light in the Piazza (at least not in 12 years since Theater Latte ...

After cancelling their originally scheduled opening weekend due to a positive COVID test in the vaccinated cast (statistically speaking, thi...

Everything changes, and that's perhaps never been more true in my lifetime than this year. But what hasn't changed is people's n...

I fell head over heels for the Ordway Original production of Mamma Mia! last summer, calling it "fantastically fun and surprisingly ...

The Children’s Crusade: kids walk out of their jobs or schools to take to the streets and stand up for what they believe in, for a fairer ...

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

They say that the more specific something is, the more universal it is. That's certainly the case with the new original musical Only O...

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...

One of the greatest musical theater composing teams, Rodgers and Hammerstein , had a smash hit with their very first show - Oklahoma! , ba...

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

Everyone loves Dolly. The title character of the popular musical Hello Dolly!  is a matchmaker, dance teacher, entrepreneur - basically a ...

The Little Mermaid was the first of the new Disney movies, and my favorite. I was a teenager when the movie came out in 1989, and "P...

Just last month, I learned about the Gershwin brothers, and lyricist Ira in particular, in Park Square Theatre's excellent play with mu...

In the continuing musical theater history seminar that is the Ordway's Broadway Songbook series, today's lesson is on the musicals...