114 stories from Girl Meets Broadway
One of the most diverse places is often an apartment building. People from all walks of life for some reason chose to make that building their home. The place they raise their families and c…
There is something very familiar about Nice Work If You Can Get It opening next week at the Ordway in Saint Paul, but unless you were lucky enough to catch it during its Broadway run in New …
Do you remember when you were first bitten by the theatre bug? If you’re Jeffrey Hatcher you do. The place was Miss K.Smith’s fifth-grade class in Steubenville, Ohio. After be…
Minneapolis Musical Theatre has built its reputation on producing off beat shows and Eating Raoul is no exception. Originally a low-budget-cult film from 1982 and written by Paul Bartel, the…
Shakespeare wrote 37 plays, it would probably take you about 40Â hours to read those; possibly longer if you stopped and took the time to comprehend what you’re reading. To see those…
Ever wonder what people do all day? Where the person in the car next to you is headed? How the citizens of your town spend their day? Well, wonder no more. Children’s Theatre Company k…
Nestled in the corner of a strip mall is a theatre that has consistently upped its offerings season after season. Yellow Tree Theatre in Osseo opens its seventh season with one of their b…
There will always be something special about seeing a classic Broadway show;Â Hello Dolly at Chanhassen Dinner Theatres is no exception. The musical is celebrating its 50th Anniversary and…
Park Square veterans Charity Jones and John Middleton portray Alice and Henry, a couple married for twenty-five years and looking to rekindle the romance in their relationship. Locked up in …
Only a few plays have made the same impact on the American theatre landscape as Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie. The play credited with propelling the then unknown playwright i…
It was a dark and stormy night, always tends to be the setting for a good murder mystery. This is no exception in the case of “The Mystery of Irma Vep”, at The Jungle Theatre.…
If you’re looking for an old-fashioned Broadway musical look no further than Bloomington Civic Theatre’s production of Guys and Dolls. Full of big production numbers and a Fra…
This week, theatergoers at the Ordway are being transported to Buenos Aires with the help of the high polished cast of EVITA. The production played Minneapolis in February, and after nearly …
History meets the Minnesota Fringe Festival in “The Ohman Stone”. In 1898 the Kensington Runestone was found near Alexandria, Minnesota and its existence and origin have been the…
In the third installment of my Minnesota Fringe Festival preview, I spoke with playwright Keith Hovis. His contribution to this year’s festival is Shakespeare Apocalypse. Its a comedy …
Today’s generation has grown up with our country at war in Afghanistan and Iraq. Two wars that have divided the country and raised questions on the true reasons behind these fig…
It is time once again for the Minnesota Fringe Festival. This year’s festival features 169 shows, 19 venues and 11 days of some of the most creative and entertaining theatre you’…
Sean MacLaughlin is traveling the country and living a dream as Argentinean President Juan Perón in EVITA. His credits include Raoul in THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA on Broadway and US and …
Twenty years ago the world was first introduced to Jonathan Larson’s rock opera RENT. Now a new generation of theatre fans are being introduced to RENT’s themes of love, fa…
What do you get when you mix emo-rock music, the early 19th century and an egotistical President? Minneapolis Musical Theatre’s production of BLOODY BLOODY ANDREW JACKSON currently pla…
 For years Broadway has turned to the jukebox musical to fill theaters. Most full of stories that include down on their luck artists and groups who manage to defy all odds and become one …
It’s hard to create a musical out of an iconic movie, let alone one that has spawned several sequels and doesn’t fit the norm of a movie musical. Prior to seeing the show I was o…
The national tour of The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess is playing at the Ordway this week and one member of the cast, Sarita Rachelle Lilly has seen this production from its conception at …
Savage Umbrella is entering the closing weekend of their latest production, Rapture playing at Nimbus Theatre through Saturday. Tanner Curl both wrote and directs this show where in an insta…
In the History Theatre’s latest production “The Things They Carried”, based on Tim O’Brien’s best selling book, recounts a young Minnesotan’s experienc…
