- 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 16, 2018
One of the biggest buzzwords since the 2016 presidential election has been “resistance” More people are feeling disenfranchised and activated than ever, which can be a good or bad thing depending on how you look at it. People have energy and they need to channel it somewhere. But what does
- Becki-Iverson
- February 14, 2018
There’s been a lot made in the last year or so of people who have been left behind. Photo Credit: Julieta Cervantes Call them Trumpeters, or rednecks, or MAGAs, or hillbillies, or whatever you will – the stories of lower class white folks have been blowing up on screens, on
- Becki-Iverson
- February 12, 2018
Why should a nation as a whole have to pay the price for the madness of a few? Photo by Dan Norman That was the question on my mind throughout the speedy 100 minute duration of Assassins, the latest to grace the stage at the Ritz Theater via Theater
- 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
- Becki-Iverson
- February 2, 2018
Where should forgiveness begin and end? Pictures speak louder than words. That is the question at the heart of Cardboard Piano, a gutwrenching play about the liminal nature of morality, kindness and grace when they are applied in the harshest imaginable circumstances. Who is deserving of mercy in light