- Becki-Iverson
- November 7, 2019
The air was thick with nostalgia as the audience settled into their seats. Photo by Dan Norman After all, you’d have to live under a rock not to remember the infamous 1989 film featuring a veritable who’s who of a pillar pre-#metoo feminine Hollywood. I mean how can you
- Becki-Iverson
- November 4, 2019
Is it the “kids these days” … or is it the grownups? Photo courtesy of Penumbra. What would you do to give your child the best chance in life? Would you move to a new city? Pay for a private school education? Work extra shifts so you can afford to
- Becki-Iverson
- October 8, 2019
I know it didn’t work out this time, but can we have a little Ichabod Crane again later? Sometimes I think my mind exists in a vortex and I’ll never catch up. Let me explain: in my busy day to day of late, I seem to be missing basic facts.
- Becki-Iverson
- October 4, 2019
“We’re always already dead – so why not live?” Photo by Rich Ryan The culinary world has been having a good run in pop culture for the last decade or so. Beginning with the explosion of food TV pioneered by Emeril Lagasse, Anthony Bourdain and the Food Network, culinary
- Becki-Iverson
- September 30, 2019
When you think of vaunted authors of American Theater, few names loom larger than Tennessee Williams. Photo by T. Charles Erickson Pick just about any famous play or screenplay from the mid-20th century – A Streetcar Named Desire, Camino Real, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof – and his
- Becki-Iverson
- September 20, 2019
How do you define a witch? All images are copyright of Matthew Glover for Sandbox Theatre Despite our burst of humid heat in the last week Minnesota is entering spooky season, which means costumes, minor toned music and pumpkin everything are about to inundate us all. I know several people
- Becki-Iverson
- September 16, 2019
Holy shit Becca Hart. Photo by Dan Norman Pardon the profanity, but I’m just not sure how else to describe one of #tctheater’s buzziest ingenues without it. Her performance in the Jungle’s season opener Ride the Cyclone – which is a wild ride overall and worth seeing – is
- Becki-Iverson
- August 21, 2019
If you’re a rom com fan, this is the show for you Photo courtesy of Theater Mu I’ve waxed ad nauseam about my love for new theater work, and one of my favorite companies consistently celebrating and commissioning new plays is Theater Mu. Their new play, Hot Asian Doctor
- Becki-Iverson
- May 28, 2019
Sometimes the most interesting aspect of a piece of art is what it does not include. Photo by Dan Norman After all, when we see a play we take for granted that there will be things like lines in it, right? Photo by Dan Norman So imagine if a
- 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