'Tis the season for Lauren Gunderson's smart, funny, modern, and inspiring plays about female scientists in history, and I am here...

For the second year in a row, Lyric Arts is opening their season with the regional premiere of a new Broadway musical. Last year they bro...

Oh my God! Oh my God, you guys*!! Lyric Arts' production of Legally Blonde is so much fun! I recently wrote that Jefferson Township S...

The real life Papin sister s, live-in maids who killed their employers in 1930s France, have inspired several plays, including the absurd ...

Confession: I've never read comic books (unless you count the graphic novel Fun Home , because theater ). I didn't even know there...

Lyric Arts Main Street Stage in Anoka is closing their 2017-2018 season with a fun and classic musical - Guys and Dolls . Is the story dat...

To open their 2017-2018 (a season that I had the pleasure of announcing earlier this year ), Lyric Arts is bringing back the popular tri...

The 1983 movie  A Christmas Story has become a holiday classic, thanks in part to TBS running it for 24 hours on Christmas Day every year...

I recently wrote , "I should just give up seeing anyone else do Shakespeare, because no one does it like Ten Thousand Things." O...

The plane crash that killed Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and the Big Bopper is known as " the day the music died ." But what abo...

The Twin Cities theater scene is broad and deep, with over 70 professional theater companies offering a diverse array of storytelling. Mos...

"Fairy tales should really be updated." So sings Shrek in the 2008 musical adaptation of the smash hit 2001 movie. And that'...

I love the 1978 movie Grease - '50s nostalgia, an adorable pre-Scientology John Travolta, the golden voice of Olivia Newton-John, and...

I recently discovered the 1960s French farce Boeing Boeing (along with the rest of the world - it flopped originally on Broadway in the ...