by SOPHIE KERMAN There is a danger in having a formula that works as well as Mixed Precipitation‘s annual picnic operettas. We know the recipe hits all the right notes (so to speak): first, start with an operetta – guaranteed good-quality music – and add in some more contemporary songs and an anti-corporate message to reach a target audience of modern adults…
by SOPHIE KERMAN As a source text for a youth circus production, you can’t get much better than Peter Pan. Neverland is a country of eternal youth and constant adventure, and circus arts rekindle our sense of incredulity in a way that not many other forms of theatre can match. Maybe the death-defying leaps, staggering feats…
By guest reviewer Bryce Byron. The Ohman Stone is a truly Minnesotan musical telling the story of the Kensington Rune Stone and people whose lives it touched. After their deaths, the major supporters of the authenticity of the Kensington Rune Stone are still trapped in an afterlife of constant debate — until the daughter of the…
Today’s Fringe adventure was another blind guess. We showed up to the Bryant-Lake Bowl and didn’t see the name of the show until we were handing over our passes to get tickets at the box office. There was a considerable line (and the show sold out only 10-15 people behind us in line), but sometimes…
This Saturday evening, my spouse and I decided to leave our Fringe experience to chance, and chose the closest venue to where we were at at the time (which happened to be Intermedia Arts) and saw the next two shows to be performed at that venue, without even looking up the titles (never mind a description)…
Aaaaaand Fringe 2014 is on! Check back throughout the festival to see what shows we’re hitting up. First up: Shakespeare’s Histories: Ten Epic Plays at a Breakneck Pace. It’s pretty much all right there in the title for you! Timothy Mooney is a joy to watch in this one-man show, as he flies through the history…
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