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Review | A Christmas Carole Petersen: a Minnesota Nice holiday
Tod Petersen in A CHRISTMAS CAROLE PETERSEN. Photo by Allen Weeks. There’s an emotionally raw quality to A Christmas Carole Petersen (Theater Latté Da, through Dec 30) that imparts to the material real...
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Review | Assassins: overlong maybe, but fab
Tyler Michaels and Ensemble. Photo by Dan Norman Ever wonder why the dapper Johnny Wilkes Booth murdered Abraham Lincoln? Laid awake at night sorting out the reasons why the cheerfully insane Charles...
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Review | Five Points: the production thrills, but the play needs work
Ensemble in FIVE POINTS. Photo by Dan Norman. In the mid-nineteenth century, the now nonexistent Five Points in New York City was one of the nation’s most diverse neighborhoods, though it was far from...
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Review | Underneath The Lintel: a hoot
Sally Wingert in UNDERNEATH THE LINTEL. Photo by Allen Weeks. Underneath The Lintel (Theater Latte Da, at the Ritz Theatre) is, to say the least, an unexciting title, but Glen Berger‘s rollicking and...
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Once: heartfelt and streetwise
Britta Ollmann and Ben Bakken on ONCE. Photo by Dan Norman. You know what busking is, don’t you? When a talented (one hopes) musician plays for free on the street, opening his guitar case (or fiddle...
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Review | A Little Night Music: the perfect show for a frigid winter night
Sally Wingert in A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC. Photo by Allen Weeks. Only the great Stephen Sondheim can do this: hunched over a (grand, naturally) piano, he plunks out a simple melody. One five-five-five....
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Review | Hedwig And The Angry Inch: this one will rock you right to the end
Tyler Michaels in HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH. Photo by Dan Norman. Hedwig and the Angry Inch is not an easy show to pull off. But when it’s done right, it pulls you in, sinking its Aqua Net misted hooks...
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Review | To Let Go And Fall: an affecting study of love and aging
Mark Benninghofen and André Shoals in TO LET GO AND FALL. Photo by Dan Norman Cello music is, it has to be said, mournful, lugubrious and, well, a little creepy. “It’s not gloomy,” asserts the young...
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Review | All Is Calm: masterful
The Ensemble in ALL IS CALM. Photo by Dan Norman. Across a dim stage, out of the (hypoallergenic) mist, a crystal-clear voice rings out, singing the old Scottish tune “Will ye go to Flanders.” The...
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Review || Bernarda Alba: percussive intensity
Regina Marie Williams in BERNARDA ALBA. Photo by Dan Norman. It’s a terrific idea: take the dense, lyrical prose of Federico Garcia Lorca‘s masterful The House Of Bernarda Alba and replace it with...
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