It's only April, and already we've been treated to two new original small-cast one-act musicals starring #TCTheater veteran Bradley ...

Illusion Theater is closing out their 50th anniversary season with the most delightful show, Minnesota treasure Kevin Kling's Scarecrow ...

Comedian Groucho Marx . Poet T.S. Eliot . Two influential artists of the 20th Century that probably no one would put in the same sentence to...

The world premiere stage adaptation of  the 2009 Irish film   Five Minutes of Heaven  tells the story of two men affected by the period of N...

I missed Illusion Theater's original 2010  Ivey-winning production of their adaption of Willa Cather's 1918 pioneer novel  My...

Prior to his one-man autobiographical musical show, T. Mychael Rambo was introduced as "a gift to all of us." So true. I've b...

When you need to dig in your purse for a tissue to blow your nose after seeing a play, you know it was a good one. I don’t cry, but @Illus...

I'll admit it. Before I was a theater geek, I was a TV geek. I grew up watching TV, and my best friends were characters on TV shows. I...

The titular character of James Still's new play Miranda is like Homeland 's Carrie Mathison, but more grounded in reality, withou...

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...

To complete my marathon five-show holiday theater weekend , I finally saw the legend that is Miss Richfield 1981 . Or rather, experienced....

It's a story that is all too familiar. A person in power is found to have molested children, and even worse, the crime has been covere...

It seems entirely appropriate that on the 50th anniversary of the march in Selma , I attended a play about Thurgood Marshall . While Marti...

Jeffrey Hatcher's Hamlet is not a one-man show of Shakespeare's  Hamlet , starring one of Minnesota's best and most prolific ...

Last night was the highlight of the theater year - the Ivey Awards. Celebrating its tenth anniversary, the Iveys honor a dozen or so indiv...

Illusion Theater's annual new works series Fresh Ink debuted last night with the reading of a lovely new musical called Walking Acros...

Willa Cather's 1918 pioneer novel My Á ntonia is required reading in many schools, and with good reason. It beautifully brings to lif...

Friends, I have a confession to make. If you had asked me last week, "Who is Clarence Darrow ?" I would have answered, "Um....

What a difference a year makes! Last year at about this time, Minnesota was preparing to vote on an amendment that would constitutionalize m...

Everything I know about the culinary world I learned from watching Top Chef . The name James Beard is often heard on the show, in terms o...