When the announcement was made a few years ago that the Prince movie Purple Rain would be made into a stage musical, reactions ranged from euphoria among diehard Prince fans to boos from tho…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:02PM[SHARE]Girl Friday Productions must be congratulated on raising a little-known play, heralded in its day, and giving it a mounting with a large and talented cast and design team. There is much to a…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:59PM[SHARE]As for performances, Haj has made great choices in casting Randy Harrison as George and Erin Mackey as Dot/Marie.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:29PM[SHARE]Now that I had such a thoroughly good time at Might as Well Be Dead, I will be on the lookout for return productions of The Red Box (psst, it's scheduled to be done by Phipps Center for the …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:48AM[SHARE]At what point is the line between political work and propaganda crossed? Does crossing that line negate the work's value as art?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:48AM[SHARE]Sorcery and magic spells are integral to the plot of Michael Elyanow's 2012 play The Children. Indeed, Elyanow cast a spell of his own, shape-shifting Euripides' classic revenge tragedy Mede…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:08AM[SHARE]"a few of the songs are well crafted, some of the jokes land well, and several characters capture our attention.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:08AM[SHARE]The abundance of obscure corners of our social and cultural history lying in wait to be discovered and molded into works of theater never ceases to amaze me. For example, who knew that Willi…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:40PM[SHARE]The title refers to a Simone song in which she created vivid portraits of four archetypes of black women, shaded by their struggles and their strengths.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:16PM[SHARE]Ten Thousand Things has allowed us to hear a wonderful score that is too little known, and has gathered highly talented actors to engage audiences with performances that find both the humor …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:02AM[SHARE]... makes for a lot of storytelling, along with references to the legacy and prospects of shipping on the Great Lakes, and in particular the storied storms that have been the industry's cons…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:25AM[SHARE]This is a wonderful play, surprisingly funny—even uproarious—that uses the very distasteful past to prompt questions about where we are today as a society.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:09AM[SHARE]On Monday, September 11, 2015, the Twin Cities theater community gathered for the presentation of the 11th annual Ivey Awards recognizing excellence in theater. A full house at the historic …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:06AM[SHARE]Theatre Pro Rata's production makes a strong case for [Sam Shepard's] A Lie of the Mind as a major work that deserves to be widely seen.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:19AM[SHARE]That he is not very well known today in music circles, even in Minnesota, is a cultural oversight being corrected by the History Theatre with their current world premiere production.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:47PM[SHARE]... makes full use of the power of theater to deliver abundant laughter and tears, pained grimaces and wide-eyed awe, visceral feeling and deep thought.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:49PM[SHARE]Are you looking for a sobering piece of theater that will put you in touch with the forces tearing our society apart, and expose the hopelessness of existence? If so, you can stop reading. T…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:12AM[SHARE]"Hir," Mac Taylor's two-act play now at Mixed Blood Theatre, is a remarkable achievement, a melding of ideas, performance, direction, and design that is entertaining, disturbing, and though-…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:42AM[SHARE]He relates the gospels as a spell-binding tale, rife with intrigue and mystery, accessible to anyone able to take in a good yarn; but in telling this as a tale for children, Dickens effectiv…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:54AM[SHARE]As is Ten Thousand Thing's trademark style, they have stripped away the external trappings, lifted up the show's central theme and found its heart. In so doing, they have given us a theatric…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:28PM[SHARE]... older children and adults are likewise engaged and delighted with this simple wordless tale of a homeless person finding comfort in the joy of invention, and finding meaning in serving …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:16AM[SHARE]The Longest Night, being performed at the Open Eye Figure Theatre, cannot truly be labeled as a play. Nor is it a review or a concert. The word that, for me, best sums up the experience of T…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:24PM[SHARE]While the production is fully stocked with visual and aural flourishes, and a structure that might have become too clever for its own good, strong performances make sure Colossal touches the…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:02PM[SHARE]It is presented as his moment, his pivot point, upon which he decides what life has in store for him, just as Hamlet came to a threshold where he had to decide the course of his life.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:37PM[SHARE]Middle Brother, by Eric Sharp, is a travelogue that takes us from Iowa to contemporary South Korea, with several lay-overs in the Joseon dynasty, which lasted from 1392-1910. There is a seco…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:33PM[SHARE]With The White Snake, Tony Award winner Mary Zimmerman has created a play that is a meld of pageant, dream, cultural excursion and love story.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:20AM[SHARE]... it presents a fully formed production of a wise and witty musical with gorgeous music, and a delightfully offered moral: that if we shed pride and vanity, and see the world with clear e…
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