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Showing posts with label Kevin D. West. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kevin D. West. Show all posts
Sunday, March 6, 2022

"Something Happened in Our Town" at Children's Theatre Company

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Something happened in our town. In May of 2020, while we were in the early days of a terrifying, deadly, and isolating pandemic, a Black man...
Sunday, September 23, 2018

"Is God Is" at Mixed Blood Theatre

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Playwright Aleshea Harris' play Is God Is , receiving just its second production at Minneapolis' Mixed Blood Theatre , is a reveng...
Monday, February 6, 2017

"The Highwaymen" at History Theatre and "The Whipping Man" Minnesota Jewish Theatre Company

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Yesterday, when most of the world was watching some sporting event on TV, I saw two plays in St. Paul that spoke to the African American exp...
Saturday, October 15, 2016

"Jitney" at Penumbra Theatre

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Jitney is the first play in the so-called "Century Cycle" that August Wilson wrote, but, set in the '70s, it's the 8th...
Saturday, February 7, 2015

"By the Way, Meet Vera Stark" at Penumbra Theatre

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In By the Way, Meet Vera Stark , now playing at Penumbra Theatre as part of their " Womansong " season, the title character is a...
Monday, December 5, 2011

"I Wish You Love" at Penumbra Theatre

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It's not often that you get a second chance to see a production you missed.  Every year at the Ivey Awards I'm presented with sever...
Tuesday, October 11, 2011

"Two Trains Running" at Penumbra Theatre

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I saw my first August Wilson play earlier this year, Penumbra Theatre's production of Ma Rainey's Black Bottom   at the Guthrie.  I...