Ten Thousand Things musicals are my favorite. When their trademark " All the Lights On " barebones style is applied to a musical, ...

A few months ago, the Guthrie Theater brought us the brilliant new play Born with Teeth , imagining meetings between playwrights Christopher...

Last night I saw Ten Thousand Things perform Shakespeare (live and in-person, which 20 months ago would have seemed like an absurd qualifier...

This spring, Michelle Hensley left the company she founded 25+ years ago , Ten Thousand Things, through which she nurtured a new kind of t...

Michelle Hensley, retiring Artistic Director and Founder of Ten Thousand Things, is a gift. A gift to theater, a gift to Minnesota, a gift...

To begin her final season as Artistic Director of Ten Thousand Things , the company she founded over 25 years ago, recent Ivey Lifetime Ac...

Day:  11 Show:  54 (encore) Title:   Twice Category:  Drama By: Its Time Productions Written by: Chris Andersen and ...

I consider myself a fan of musicals (although perhaps not quite an expert), but I had never heard of the 1969 musical Dear World that won...

The village of Farmingtown has been devoid of men for so long that when one returns from the far away and long-lasting war, the first woma...

No one does musicals like Ten Thousand Things does musicals. And even though it defies everything we know about musical theater, after see...

No one does Shakespeare like Ten Thousand Things . They manage to boil the text down to its bare essentials, and convey the heart of the s...

What Ten Thousand Things does better than any other theater company I know is harness the power of collective imagination to transport th...

"There were bells on the hill, but I never heard them ringing, no I never heard them at all, 'till there was you." So sings ...

Friends, I experienced a rare treat last week. I attended the final dress rehearsal for Ten Thousand Things' new show, The Music Man ,...

A Midsummer Night's Dream is perhaps the wackiest of Shakespeare's romantic comedies. It's the one where lovers chase each ot...

Ten Thousand Things does theater like no other company I've seen, and Tennessee Williams wrote some of the best American plays of th...

Friends, I know I rave about Ten Thousand Things often on this blog, but I'm telling you, The Seven is crazy good. It's unlike a...

For anyone who's ever been an aspiring musician, 2 Pianos 4 Hands * will ring true. My instrument was clarinet, not piano, and I was n...

Ten Thousand Things brings their totally unique, stripped-down, bare-bones, get-right-to-the-core-of-it style to another Shakespeare play...

Do you know when you go to the theater (or a movie or concert) and become so engrossed in the experience, that it feels like the only real...