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Showing posts with label Metro Magazine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Metro Magazine. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 30, 2017

Compendium is Turning Five! And Grease Ticket Giveaway

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Let me tell you a little story. Five years in and stronger than ever - happy birthday  Compendium ! The date is September 2012. I...
Monday, June 5, 2017

Full Circle Theater Fleshes Out 365 Days/365 Plays

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This truly diverse undertaking tackles representation of all stripes.  Photo from MN Playlist If you haven't heard of Full Circl...
Monday, September 24, 2012

Once Upon a Roman Holiday

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In the era of the 1%, who would give up their wealth and fame to join the uncleansed masses? Roman Holiday  is essentially the classic fa...

Xany Xanadu: Chanhassen Dinner Theater’s latest effort skates over itself

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It seems in musical theater that there are the shows that can, the shows that can’t, and the shows that just don’t give up. Xanad...

Tune out to Noises Off!

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Like an overfermented wine, Noises Off! promises all the features of a fantastic show, but leaves the audience coming away with a tinny ta...

Blue Man Group Lights-up the Orpheum

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[View the  gallery  of the Blue Man Group teaching percussion at The School of Rock in St. Paul]   Irreverence: there could be no oth...

Fela! displays all of the qualities that a musical should be, featuring gorgeous music, riveting visuals and an explicit and carefully relayed political message to boot.

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What does it take to break a person? How much violence, slander and abuse can be taken before one gives up on the goodness of life?  In ...

Naiku: Ahead of the Learning Curve

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The tech revolution has fully infiltrated communication and information consumption, but its reach has somehow glaringly missed the field ...

Turning Dance On Its Head: David Zambrano's Walker Art Center performance mixes show tunes, circus atire and eclectic choreography

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Watching David  Zambrano ’s company perform  Soul Project  last Friday was like watching the regular performers of the Gay 90’s ac...

Guthrie Theater's "Are You Now or Have You Ever Been?"

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A suiting introduction to Langston Hughes and the McCarthy era Sometimes there’s blood in the Georgia dusk Left by a streak o...

Plot Profusion: Nimbus Theater's "The Gold Ass" delivers a multi-layered story about a man who turns into a donkey, and back again

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Liz Neerland’s adaptation of Apuleius’  The Gold Ass , now showing at the Nimbus Theater in Northeast Minneapolis, brings the ancient int...

No Doubt About It: Park Square Theatre's "Doubt: A Parable" combines strong cast tight writing to create one taut, cohesive whole

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You know how sometimes you sit in a restaurant, take one look at a menu, and one whiff from the kitchen, and know you’re in for a tru...

The Tortiose and the All-Stars

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Fusion is still in. Like a kimchi Reuben or steak sushi, Tortoise + Minneapolis Jazz All-Stars merged two disparate groups of musicians f...

The Cure For the Common Campaign

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As the presidential election bombardment begins, it’s always good to take a step (or five) back and try to view the season with humor. ...

Straight A's For Alvin Ailey

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Reviewing  Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater is a little bit like trying to assess the infamous (and now closed) El Bulli, long co...

Collaborative Carmina: Carmina Burana a fitting tribute on Minnesota Dance Theater’s 50th anniversary, and another sign that Cowles Center breeding creativity

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Although brief, the performance of Carmina Burana , at  Minnesota Dance Theater ’s 50 th  Anniversary Gala last weekend showed how vital hav...