Arts & Culture
2018-19 Winter What To Do Guide
As the darkness falls upon us, it’s easy to choose hibernation as the coping mechanism of choice to avoid the dreadful, icy, bone-chilling winter season. But as much as we might want to curl up […]
A Word In Edgewise: Sardines and Silliness: Restorative, Not Restoration Drama
It’s a world-wearying time. Shall we seek respite in theater? Not Lear or Loman, not sarcastic Coward or brittle Wilde. Something…silly. Through prescience or perchance, the Guthrie offers Noises Off. Michael Frayn’s 1982 gem introduces a group […]
Arts Spotlight: 614
A Christmas Carol Through Dec. 29 Guthrie Theater, 818 S. 2nd St., Minneapolis 612-377-2224 www.guthrietheater.org Once again, Nathaniel Fuller reprises his acclaimed lead performance as the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge in the Guthrie Theater’s annual production […]
Religious Themes Expressed on Local Stages
Black Nativity The holiday season is a time when reflection on faith-based ideas takes place within hearts and minds of people of all kinds of backgrounds. Penumbra Theatre is presenting one of the region’s most […]
Mixed Blood Contrasts Style in New Plays About Black Masculinity
Idris Goodwin is a deep observer who probes beneath the surface to address questions outside conventional wisdom. A few years ago, The Jungle Theater staged his thought-provoking Bars and Measures, a play that wrestles with differences between […]
Gay Undercurrent in the Acidly Witty “Gloria” at Mixed Blood’s Prescient Harbingers Festival
Words are weaponized in Gloria by Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins, a selection from Mixed Blood Theatre’s Prescient Harbingers Trilogy of plays by black men that reflect on gun violence. A longtime female employee, who is also the title role […]
Holiday Entertainment For the 2018 Holiday Season
1. Angels We Have Heard Are High (O Holy Crap!) Through Jan. 26 Brave New Workshop Theatre, 824 Hennepin Ave., Minneapolis 612-332-6620 www.BraveNewWorkshop.com The region’s premiere comedy theater, now in its 60th year, delivers its […]
Queerness, Criminality, and the Subtlety of Eros – “El Angel” produced by the Almodovar Brothers
Eros permeates the world of filmmaker Luis Ortega’s beguiling El Angel (The Angel) , an uncompromising observation of the actual Argentinian teenaged serial killer and thief, Carlos Robledo Puch, who wreaked havoc in the early 1970s. He […]
“Noises Off” Among Best & Most Hilarious Shows in Guthrie History
Noises Off by Michael Frayn is an ingenious comedy about the rehearsal and performance of Act One of a sex farce. The first act of Noises Off is the final rehearsal when the self-absorbed actors are continually […]
The Vibrant “Hot Funky Butt Jazz” – Interact Celebrates Jazz History
Interact, the region’s premiere theater for performers with disabilities is currently on stage for the Guthrie’s Level 9 series in the Dowling Studio. Hot Funky Butt Jazz is their new musical about New Orleans’s jazz […]
