Everyone loves a good horse story, it seems—even if they already know the plot. And War Horse is a great horse story, one virtually everyone in America knows from the beloved Steven Spielberg movie, and one that audiences around the country are reliving through the Broadway road-show theater production stabled at The Orpheum…
Before discussing the Guthrie’s new play, The Primrose Path, I must admit up front that I have a strong Turgenev bias. In my college Russian Literature class, we slogged through Chekhov, Tolstoy, and Dostoevsky, enduring their endless existential agonies as instructed. But it wasn’t until we read Turgenev’s Fathers and Sons that I stopped…
Permit me to talk seriously for a moment about The Book of Mormon, the sacrilegious song-fest popping eyeballs and frying neurons this week at The Orpheum Theatre. Written by the creators of Comedy Central’s naughty-nice cartoon, South Park, The Book of Mormon is the devil spawn of America’s dedication to the twin freedoms of…
An epic battle is being waged in Appomattox, Christopher Hampton’s new Civil War/civil-rights play, currently receiving its world premiere at The Guthrie Theater —but it’s not a fight between Yankee and Confederate soldiers.
No, the monumental struggle on display here is between the page and the stage, idea and execution, the desire for drama and the…
The Guthrie Theater’s seven-week celebration of British playwright Christopher Hampton got off to a good-humored start on Friday night, what with both Twin Cities mayors—Rybak and Coleman—officially declaring Sept. 21 “Christopher Hampton Day,” and the first play of three, Tales of Hollywood, opening on the Wurtele Thrust stage.
If the name and play don’t ring a bell, rest assured that your cultural radar isn’t on…
The Walker Art Center announced its 2012-13 performing arts season on Thursday, and it looks to be another good one. Highlights include a new solo work by performance artist Laurie Anderson, an experimental multimedia/music piece by Wilco guitarist Nels Cline and several of his friends, and a day-long 60th birthday bash for composer/musician/producer John Zorn.
In all there are six commissioned works, three world premieres,…
Ever since the Guthrie Theater announced its 50th Anniversary season two weeks ago, many in the local arts community have been boiling with indignation over the fact that the overwhelming majority of plays being presented by the Guthrie in its 2012-13 season are written and directed by men, and address what Charles Barkley, in a recent Saturday Night Live skit, calls “white people’s problems.”
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With Michael Jackson: The Immortal World Tour, brought to you by Cirque du Soleil, the Gloved One has begun his ascension from tragically over-adored celebrity to ridiculously revered rock god. True Michael Jackson fans may be confused, however, because it appears that MJ is going to have to muscle past Cirque’s legion of acrobats, contortionists, and…
America’s love affair with stupidity has a long and shameless history, from slavery and Prohibition to professional wrestling, beer pong, and the average political attack ad. The one place you will not find much stupidity, however, is in the Broadway punk-rock-opera American Idiot.
Certainly, you will see young people making all kinds of ill-advised choices, and…
Judy Garland’s slow, sad slide into oblivion is one of American entertainment’s most tragic stories. Her death, at 47, from an overdose of Seconal, was stamped from a familiar template for stars overwhelmed by the pressures of fame. Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Anna Nicole Smith, Margeaux…
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