Martin Kaye, Lee Ferris, Derek Keeling, and Cody Slaughter assume the roles of Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins in ‘Million Dollar Quartet.’ Image credit: Joan Marcus/Hennepin Theatre Trust What if four of music’s biggest legends spent an evening together early in their careers jamming together

When it comes to describing the blues, Guy Davis said it best when he sang “I’m laughing just to keep from crying.”  The most recent touring Broadway production at the Ordway, Memphis, exemplifies this phrase from start to finish in a Cadillac Records-meets-Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom style. Memphis follows an unconventional, uneducated young white

What would you do if your brother was a ruthless killer who not only deceived you about your One True Love, but tried to kill him and marry you off to someone you hated? And what if said brother was also your only living family member? It’s a brutally feudal

You probably remember the 2004 phenomenon that was Green Day’sAmerican Idiot. Exploding from popular music charts to the Grammys, the album became not only the rock opera of a generation, but also its protest album. Replete with rich storylines and characters, it was a natural choice for theatrical adaptation. Which

When excellent theatrical shows run for a long time, it can be easy to forget that they’re still around. Take Phantom of the Opera, which is currently in its 25th consecutive season in New York City and recently celebrated an unprecedented ten thousandth performance. While the Chanhassen Dinner Theater’s production

Image credit: Photo by Carol Rosegg/Guthrie Theater “It’s a terrible thing to know what you’re capable of and to never see yourself get there,” Judy Garland said in 1969. A few months later, at just 47-years-old, she died of an overdose at her London home. If anything captures the essence

I don’t know if it was the slow snow or the melancholy tale of a doomed love, but the Minnesota Opera could have stood a little more “Vivat Bacchus” spirit for the opening of Massanet’sWerther. There is a certain irony in watching a dramatic opera about Germans be performed in