Two world premiere new works of theater are premiering at the Children's Theatre Company this fall (which is actually not that unusual...

Theatre Coup D'Etat has done it again. They've brought us an interesting piece in an intimate setting with innovative staging and...

Last year, just a few months into this divisive presidency, Pillsbury House Theatre presented a series of short plays commissioned from lo...

Last week was a great week for readings. First, I saw the second play in the Playwrights' Center Ruth Easton Series ( continuing the ...

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

Tension. Authentic. Provocative. Humorous. Hope. Uncomfortable. Despair. Familiar. These were some one-word audience reactions to the perf...

If you know me, you know that I'm a morning person who loves a 90-minute no intermission show - short, succinct, and to the point.  Th...

The new play The Last Firefly by Naomi Iizuka, commissioned by the Children's Theatre Company , feels like a new fairy tale for the m...

After spending the evening walking around the historic James J. Hill House on Summit Avenue watching theater, I spent the next night wal...

The final show in Ten Thousand Things ' 2015-2016 season is another new play from their playwright in residence, Kira Obolensky. Ten T...

I don't know what I was thinking. The words "dance" and "party" are right in the title, two words that strike inst...

The word octoroon is defined as "a person of one-eight black ancestry." The Octoroon is a 19th Century play by Irish playwright...

A quick Google search presented me with two definitions of the word fugue : " a contrapuntal composition in which a short melody or p...

Does the name Augie Garcia ring a bell? Unless you were a young person who frequented the local Rock and Roll clubs in 1950s St. Paul, pro...

The Moving Company 's new adaptation of one of Shakespeare's earliest romantic comedies, Love's Labour's Lost , includes a...

In the early 20th Century in Minneapolis, when children were forced to work long hours in factories, a marching band was formed to keep ...

"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 ,...

It's the morning after the Ivey Awards , and I have a happiness hangover. It was another great night of celebrating the Twin Cities t...

Day:  6 Show:  17 Title:  Elysium Blues By:  The Barkada Theater Project Created by:  Jessica Huang Location: U of M ...