Catch Me If You Can

by CHRISTINE SARKES SASSEVILLE The Orpheum Theatre’s glitzy, new musical offering, Catch Me If You Can, tells the true-life con man “coming of age story” of Frank Abagnale, Jr., who posed as a doctor, lawyer and Pan Am pilot all before age 21.  The Tony-nominated musical, set in the 1960s with a rat pack meets Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In…

Aisle Say Twin Cities: Launch!

Welcome to Aisle Say Twin Cities, the new offshoot blog of AisleSay.com, an internet resource for theater reviews across the country. At Aisle Say Twin Cities, we strive for reviews that push Minneapolis and St. Paul to provide consistently high-quality theater. You can read more about us on the “About” page. We hope our reviews…

Arms and the Man

by ANNA ROSENSWEIG Sergius Saranoff is the very model of a Major and a gentleman. We learn this in the first scene of George Bernard Shaw’s Arms and the Man when his fiancée, Raina Petkoff, coos over a photograph of him in full officer’s garb and revels in reports of his valor and bravery. Sergius…