- Becki-Iverson
- August 9, 2019
It’s starting to feel like Lynn Nottage is the only name I’ve heard in theater the last few years. I’m ok with that. Photo by T Charles Erickson The famous don’t always live up to their reputation, but Lynn Nottage sure does. Photo by T Charles Erickson The Guthrie
- Becki-Iverson
- July 25, 2019
Greetings from the future, lovely readers… Photo courtesy of One Heart Africa I bet some of you are starting to wonder what the heck has happened to me! In one word: Africa. I spent all of June 2019 on the trip of a lifetime through several countries in West Africa.
- Becki-Iverson
- May 10, 2019
I can truly promise that you will never see a show like this again. You’ve heard of drive-in movie theaters, but have you heard of drive-in plays? No? You wouldn’t be alone! It’s a highly unusual concept, but a drive-in play (or maybe a drive-by play is more accurate)
- Becki-Iverson
- May 6, 2019
Although not my preferred genre, horror really seems to be having a moment these days. Thanks to brilliant filmmakers like Jordan Peele (Get Out, Us) and Ryan Murphy (American Horror Story), horror is becoming a nuanced, complex genre that many people share a love of. More than many genres it
- Becki-Iverson
- April 1, 2019
Every time I see a show at The Jungle, I think “they can’t possibly top this…” Photo by Dan Norman … and then I find myself to be all wrong a couple months later when a new show opens. Readers may remember my glowing review of the Jungle’s reprisal
- Becki-Iverson
- March 19, 2019
Who would dare tackle turning Tolkein’s The Hobbit into a stage show for a children? Photo by Dan Norman Better yet, who would dare tackle The Hobbit for a wide age-range of audience (but focus on kids) in less than two and a half hours with only five actors
- Becki-Iverson
- February 15, 2019
What did you do on Valentine’s Day? Photo courtesy of the Penumbra The holiday seems to be one that you love or love to hate. As for myself, I could swing either way – there is no denying that the entire day is set up to allow corporations to
- Becki-Iverson
- January 21, 2019
Every year I visit the Walker Art Center’s annual Out There series… And every year I leave with a plethora of exciting new ideas about performance art. The avant garde festival can be really intimidating for those who don’t see a lot of theater or prefer explicitly traditional forms of performance, but that’s exactly
- Becki-Iverson
- December 21, 2018
Representation has been an increasingly important theme in arts around the world lately. Uche Iroegbu Whether it’s melanizing the lily white world of superhero universes (here’s looking at you Black Panther) or shaking up the stale genre of rom coms (Crazy Rich Asians ruled the game this summer), groups that
- Becki-Iverson
- December 1, 2018
Anyone who knows me even a little knows that one of my great passions is discovering, sharing, and enjoying stories that lie outside of our popular understanding of the world. Photos by Petronella J. Ytsma This is especially true of historical stories, which often tend to center middle aged