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

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

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

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.

“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

Two of the Twin Cities’ oldest and most hallowed theatre halls are celebrating big birthdays this week. Both the Orpheum and State theatres, located in downtown Minneapolis, are turning 90-years-old this year and are celebrating with a free family event on Saturday. Their birthdays are yet another reason that the