The only thing I know about the 1960 Tony-nominated musical Once Upon a Mattress is that it was Carol Burnett's Broadway debut. I'v...

The subtitle A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is the perfect description of Oscar Wilde's most popular play The Importance of Being ...

Things are pretty bleak right now, but at the end of an inspiring day in which tens of thousands of Minnesotans came together to stand up fo...

When I saw the Ordway's production of Annie in December of 2017, I wrote the following, and now, almost exactly eight years later, I fe...

I first learned about Russian-American abstract expressionist painter  Mark Rothko  when I saw the regional premiere of the 2010 Tony-winnin...

Get ready to set sail with the classic Cole Porter musical Anything Goes at Lakeshore Players Theatre. In only the second local production ...

Sometimes a book can change your life. Sometimes so can a book club. Such is the premise of Karen Zacarías' hilarious play The Book Club...

Lakeshore Players Theatre's 72nd season is taking a sharp turn from a lovely new adaptation of the holiday classic A Christmas Carol to...

'Tis the season* for A Christmas Carol . The Guthrie is in their 50th year of producing Charles Dickens' classic story of redemptio...

Lakeshore Players Theatre's 71st season just keeps getting better! I would say that their new production of the hilarious satirical musi...

Lakeshore Players Theatre's ambitious 71st season continues with perhaps the most interesting choice of the season - playwright Doug Wri...

To continue Lakeshore Players Theatre's ambitious 71st season, which began with the regional premiere of the smart, poignant, relevant p...

As a fan of all things Little House on the Prairie and Laura Ingalls Wilder, I was excited to see the musical Little House on the Prairie ...

The 1963  Bock and Harnick creation  She Loves Me  is a delicious musical that stands the test of time. Based on a 1937 Hungarian play, the ...

Lakeshore Players Theatre's ambitious 71st season began in August with the one-weekend-only regional premiere production of the smart, f...

Lakeshore Players Theatre has an exciting lineup of shows for their 71st season in the lovely lakeside town of White Bear Lake. Including K...

On the surface, the 1983 Broadway musical La Cage Aux Folles may be about drag performers, but at its heart it's a simple and beautiful...

Just in time for Women's History Month, Lakeshore Players Theatre is bringing us the true story of a group of women in the UK who bared ...

The classic farce-within-a-farce Noises Off is a perfect choice for Lakeshore Players Theatre's winter show; two and a half hours of la...

After cancelling the first of three planned shows this season at Lakeshore Players Theatre, Songbook Live! is back, and just in time for the...