- Becki-Iverson
- April 13, 2018
What Unites Us? Photo by Dan Norman I’m a huge Dan Rather fan (if you’re not following his news updates on his Facebook page you are seriously missing out – check it out at once!), and one of the common themes in his posts is finding ways to
- Becki-Iverson
- April 9, 2018
When you think of mermaids, what comes to mind? Photo by Rich Ryan Many of us immediately jump to thoughts of Disney’s Ariel a la The Little Mermaid. Others might harken to darker implications, such as the cursed mermaids of West African lore. What I recently learned is that
- Becki-Iverson
- March 29, 2018
What to do on Easter when you’ve been eating boring Lenten food for over a month? Photo courtesy of Thrillist Or more likely: if you’re one of the rest of us undisciplined sinners and just want to live.it.up. on the year’s best brunch day, where on earth should you
- Becki-Iverson
- March 19, 2018
As an immigrant or a refugee, where does your allegiance belong? Photo by Dan Norman Should you forget where you were born? Should you bide your time until you can return again? Should you try to assimilate where you have moved if you never intended to live there in
- Becki-Iverson
- March 12, 2018
Few things are more powerful than an idea whose time has come. Photo by RICH RYAN PHOTOGRAPHY, 2018 It’s been a little over two years since I saw Broadway’s rendition of Newsies at the Orpheum (read original review here). It was the first opportunity I’d had to see the show
- Becki-Iverson
- March 6, 2018
What if I were to tell you… Graphic by Ten Thousand Things …That there is a show penned by a local female playwright that is set entirely in a car wash, features a highly eclectic spectrum of characters, and it’s totally fabulous? I would be describing Park and Lake,
- Becki-Iverson
- February 28, 2018
Of all of the many reasons I’m proud to be a Twin Cities Theater Blogger, the #tctbconvo series is at the very top of my list. Created as a response to the controversy over Refugia last year, #tctbconvo represents the Twin Cities Theater Blogger’s attempt to host proactive dialogues
- Becki-Iverson
- February 26, 2018
LISTEN. Photo courtesy of the Guthrie Theater Just, listen. That is all I can say after seeing Ifrah Mansour’s magnificent one-woman show How to Have Fun in a Civil War. In a taut, gripping 60-minute performance, Mansour tells the story of fleeing Somalia during the 1990s civil war from
- Becki-Iverson
- February 19, 2018
Sacred cows of the theater be warned: your days of being untouchable are careening towards a swift end. Photo by Petronella Ytsma And what great news that is! Seriously, I’ve been advocating for years, ad nauseam (#sorrynotsorry), that we need to really feel comfortable revising things for the modern
- Becki-Iverson
- February 9, 2018
When you hear the phrase “good writing,” what does it mean to you? Everyone has different answer for this question; after all, we have different tastes and preferences, different values and backgrounds, and so the style and subject matter can widely range between what are considered to be good pieces