- 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
How much do you know about the Philippines, really? Photo by Bruce Silcox Did you know it was colonized twice? Did you know that Filipinos share a lot of cultural heritage with Latinx peoples? Did you know that the tribal origins of Filipinos date back more than 6,000 years?
- Becki-Iverson
- April 5, 2018
What is the real difference between a copy and a spoof? Photo by Jeremy Daniel My chef and I had a debate about this after seeing Something Rotten, the current Broadway tour resident at the Orpheum Theater in Minneapolis. To my mind, a copy is directly lifting something –
- 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
- 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 26, 2018
What is the responsibility of great art? Photo by Dan Norman Is it to the artist? The audience? The culture it portrays? The abstract idea of art itself? This is an impossible question to answer; every person will approach it from a different lived perspective, and every person will find
- 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 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
- January 15, 2018
“Let me say that we have failed to say something to America enough. However difficult it is to hear, however shocking it is to hear, we’ve got to face the fact that America is a racist country. We have got to face the fact that racism still occupies the throne
- Becki-Iverson
- November 28, 2017
The North Loop is Minneapolis’ retail equivalent of a rags to riches story… Photo courtesy of Thrillist And it’s one that will be told for a very long time. Once considered one of the most undesirable areas of the city, the North Loop has become one of the hottest real