I'm not one of those Les Mis fanatics. I first saw it on tour over a dozen years ago, and what I remember most about it is that it wa...

Mary Todd Lincoln , the wife of President Abraham Lincoln, has a reputation in American history as being difficult and, well, somewhat cra...

Billy Crystal's one-man show 700 Sundays played 163 shows on Broadway in 2004 and won a Tony for Best Special Theatrical Event. And a...

Since I'm a Guthrie season subscriber (this is my 11th season), I just go when they send me, which for Uncle Vanya happened to be in...

I found myself with a free day yesterday and decided to go to a Sunday matinee (the theater kind, not the movie kind). My October has been q...

The original musical adaptation of Stephen King's novel Carrie was a notorious flop . It closed after just 21 performances on Broadway ...

In the continuing musical theater history seminar that is the Ordway's Broadway Songbook series, today's lesson is on the musicals...

The new play Tribes , by British playwright Nina Raine, is about nothing less than the nature of love, family, language, words, books, emo...

We long for "the good old days," when things were simple and everyone was content, before the busyness and technological craze o...

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

We live in the media age, with the proliferation of the internet, Facebook, Twitter, and 24-hour cable news channels. Or at least that...

I'm a Minnesota girl, but unlike Madde Gibba and Emily Schmidt, I've never wanted to live anywhere else. These two local theater/...