Theatre in the Round Players has opened its 75th season with a production of The Great Gatsby, directed by Vanessa Brooke Agnes and based on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel. Featuring a strong ensemble cast and live music, the adaptation captures the Jazz Age’s complexities through Nick Carraway’s eyes, highlighting themes of wealth and social disparity.
Lyric Arts’ production of Merrily We Roll Along is a beautiful, grounded take on one of Stephen Sondheim’s most structurally experimental works.
Private Lives at the Guthrie Theater is a viciously funny, wickedly sharp comedy of manners in the best Noel Coward tradition. Under David Ivers’ direction, these four superb actors squeeze every ounce of physical humor out of the dialogue and staging. In this three-act play, Coward envisions love and romance as verbal swordplay, with short…
by Christine Sarkes Photo Credit: Dan Norman. Come From Away at the Guthrie Theater is a rollicking, rousing, joyful and poignant snapshot in time when nations and people were united in grief and solidarity in the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks. Created by Irene Sankoff and David Hein, from thousands of real-life interviews,…
SIX The Musical has garnered a large following of fans for its catchy – but often touching – pop tunes and the incredible vocal talent and personas of the divas that sing them. Starring an all female cast and band (aka: the Ladies in Waiting), SIX is a built to showcase what history (herstory) looks like when women get to tell their stories.
Lyric Arts’ production of Ride the Cyclone is completely strange, occasionally disturbing, and utterly captivating from curtain to curtain.
Fresh off their successful run of Breach at the 2025 Minnesota Fringe Festival, Third Space Theatre is furthering their reputation of crafting fast-paced and gripping theatre built to make you think with Plano by Will Arbery, now playing at Mixed Blood Theatre. Plano is an absurdist exploration of family, identity, trauma, and the lies we all tell ourselves. There is one more weekend of shows, and you will not want to miss it.
by Christine Sarkes and Erika Sasseville Cabaret at the Guthrie Theater, now through August 24, under the masterful direction of Joseph Haj, is among the most exhilarating, sexiest and relevant productions I’ve seen in Twin Cities theater. Cabaret won Tony awards for Best Musical and others in 1967. The Bob Fosse movie version with Liza…
by Christine Sarkes and Erika Sasseville (a mother/daughter review) The Mousetrap at the Guthrie Theater, now through May 18, is a delightfully camp and beautifully produced staging of Agatha Christie’s classic whodunit. Audiences will be thrilled by the gorgeous, lush set upon arriving at the McGuire Proscenium Stage. Director Tracy Bridgden, Guthrie Theater’s Senior Artistic…
by Christine Sarkes Park Square Theatre‘s superbly acted production of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play, The Gin Game, is directed by Twin Cities theater veteran Faye M. Price and features acclaimed TC actors Greta Oglesby (Fonsia Dorsey) and Terry Hempleman (Weller Martin). The Gin Game follows the bond that develops between two lonely residents of a…
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