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

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,

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