- Becki-Iverson
- September 24, 2012
Masterful and perfectly executed, this Les Mis is well worth any time or expense spent to see it. Breathless. That is the only word to describe my state by the end of Broadway’s touring production ofLes Miserables that opened Tuesday night at the Orpheum Theatre. For those who are unfamiliar with Les
- Becki-Iverson
- September 24, 2012
It’s always a good idea in December to take a pause from holiday craziness to stop and enjoy something beautiful. The Moscow Ballet provided that opportunity this weekend in their lovely performance of Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker at the Orpheum Theatre. There were no words, no credit cards and no stress. Instead the
- Becki-Iverson
- September 24, 2012
It’s pretty hard to top the true story of soldiers laying down their arms for an unauthorized Christmas truce, but the Minnesota Opera managed to do it one better on Saturday night. At the sold-out world premiere ofSilent Night, a new piece underwritten by super-art-patrons Margaret and Angus Wurtele, tenor
- Becki-Iverson
- September 24, 2012
“Bill, call the network. Tell them tonight is my last show.” I Wish You Love ends with these sad words, the inevitable conclusion to what seems to be one of television’s better kept behind-the-scenes sagas. As a childhood fan of Nat King Cole, I was more than excited to see
- Becki-Iverson
- September 24, 2012
Interactive guerrilla theater. There is no better way to describe Savage Umbrella’s current show, a heavy-handed exploration of the consequences of indoctrination inspired by Aeschylus’ The Suppliants. Integrating set and story to create a politicized, hands-on theater experience, The Ravagers is a study in contrast. Danaus, the brother of Aegyptus, raises 50 daughters
- Becki-Iverson
- September 24, 2012
I Am My Own Wife, the Jungle Theater’s new one-man show telling one of history’s truly compelling sagas, defies easy description. Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, the show’s subject, is a man who has been dressing as a woman since age 16 in Nazi Germany. Playwright Doug Wright tells her true story
- Becki-Iverson
- September 24, 2012
George Hamilton plays the role of Georges, the owner of La Cage Aux Folles. There are some shows that are destined to be enjoyed. For lighthearted fare, Hairspray is hard to beat.Much Ado About Nothing orSingin’ in the Rain are similarly universal feel-good shows. But nothing beatsLa Cage Aux Folles for the perfect comedic show. It
- Becki-Iverson
- September 24, 2012
It is a universally acknowledged truth that the Penumbra Theater has a love affair with America’s reigning neo-realist August Wilson. Wilson, one of the nation’s most prominent African-American playwrights, had a close relationship with Penumbra during his life, producing 21 shows there. Two years after his death in 2005, Penumbra
- Becki-Iverson
- September 24, 2012
If someone had told me that The Burial at Thebes, a 2004 adaptation of Sophocles’Antigone by Nobel prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney, contained song and dance with sparse orchestration I wouldn’t have known what to think. After seeing it performed at the Guthrie’s McGuire Proscenium Stage, I’m still not entirely sure what to think.
- Becki-Iverson
- September 24, 2012
“In brief, since I do purpose to marry, I will think nothing to any purpose that the world can say against it; and therefore never flout at me for what I have said against it; for man is a giddy thing, and this is my conclusion.” That’s the way Benedick