If you’re a rom com fan, this is the show for you   Photo courtesy of Theater Mu I’ve waxed ad nauseam about my love for new theater work, and one of my favorite companies consistently celebrating and commissioning new plays is Theater Mu. Their new play, Hot Asian Doctor

The show is in good hands with the legendary Betty Buckley   Photo by Julieta Cervantes We seem to be in an era of revivals, these days. Carousel, My Fair Lady, Oklahoma! and Hello, Dolly! Have been making waves on Broadway for a few years now. Of all these recent

Lavish. Painterly. Sumptuous. Elegant. Winsome.   T Charles Erickson These are just a few of the words that floated through my mind while watching the Guthrie’s delicious new show Cyrano de Bergerac (Cyrano) last night. T Charles Erickson The tale of the monster and the damsel falling in love has

Are you familiar with Rick Shiomi?   Photo courtesy of GSVLOC If not, what rock have you been hiding under! One of the legendary luminaries of the #tctheater scene, Rick founded Mu Performing Arts (one of my favorite local companies), Full Circle Theater (another favorite local company!), and has been

Who else has the muddy March blues?   Photo Credit: Tom Wallace, 2019 I don’t know a single Minnesotan who hasn’t felt positively demoralized by our last six weeks of hellish winter weather. Yes, it’s now 40 degrees and endlessly rainy, but what comfort is that when it feels like

Every rose has it’s thorn…   Photo by Jeremy Daniel And I pricked myself on a few at the touring performance of Rock of Ages last weekend. Photo by Jeremy Daniel The crowd was ready to rock and roll (literally) as the first shreds came off the axe on stage

This saucy show has plenty of punch for Sondheim fans.   Photo by Dan Norman When you hear the “great” names of creators of musical theater, the list tends to be pretty short. Rogers and Hammerstein are up there, to be sure. Leonard Bernstein makes the cut. Andrew Lloyd Weber,

A nuclear apocalypse seems to be on many artists’ minds these days.   Photo courtesy of the Walker Art Center Last year gave us The Lorax at Children’s Theatre Company. A few weeks ago The Children opened at the Jungle Theater. And now we have Zvizdal [Chernobyl, so far – so close],

The first (and only) musical about Gloria Estefan is the new West Side Story (yeah, I went there).   Photo by Matthew Murphy We hear electrified instruments; a blistering trumpet fills the air, and suddenly! A thin fabric screen is whisked away to reveal the awesome power of the new

This disaster minded drama features impeccable acting and a thoughtful plot   Photo by Dan Norman Art is supposed to reflect and explain the world around us, right? That said, with the political world in chaos these days it seems only natural that dystopian fiction and high drama should make