Stand-up comedian David Cross used to have a bit in his routine about the remarkable consistency of the redneck dialect, even when separated by vast...
This show should have been a musical comedy queen’s wet dream: some of the greatest songs ever written, show tunes both familiar and novel, sung...
Arthur Miller’s A View from the Bridge isn’t one of his better-known plays, but The Guthrie’s current production makes a good argument for raising the...
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Is there anything more improbable than writing about music? As a critic of classical music, I constantly come up against the absurdity of trying to...
As soon as I got home from August Wilson’s Fences under the direction of Lou Bellamy at the Penumbra, I went into the living room...
The Ordway's new musical biography of George M. Cohan seems intent on mining the composer’s classic American songs for box office gold. And judging by...
Oscar Wilde is one of most famous homosexuals in history, so it sometimes surprise people when they learn that Wilde had a wife named Constance...
Gin is an easy game. Putting together three neat “runs” as quickly as possible, hopefully sticking your opponent with a confused muddle of cards, is...
It’s not every day that you discover a new American dialect. But if you see Bulrusher, by Eisa Davis, at the Pillsbury House Theatre, that’s...
Taken on its own terms, Ordway Center’s production of Cabaret is dazzling. The full resources of the theatre, both financial and technical, are on vivid...
So if you’re going to have a black guy play Judas in Jesus Christ Superstar, it better be Corey Glover. If you’re a guilty white...
I hate the way Minnesota Opera is marketing its current production of Antonin Dvorak’s Rusalka. Billing it as “The Little Mermaid without the happy ending”...
As more and more people are discovering every day, growing old in the United States of America isn’t as much fun as the brochures suggest....
As an awkward, skinny, bespectacled sixth grader, I always dreamed that high school would be like it was on the stage at the State Theatre...