2005–08 onstage

Editorial

Please Don't Blow Up Mr. Boban from Live Action Set and director Jon Ferguson was the surprise hit of the 2005 Minnesota Fringe Festival. This photo of Noah Bremer as Boban was taken at the remount at the Loring Playhouse.

Named one of 2005’s top ten by Lavender Magazine, The Devils by John Whiting was produced by Nightpath Theatre (director: Maggie Scanlon) at the Cedar Riverside People’s Center Theater.

Produced by Matt Jenson's New and Slightly Used Dance with the Rose Ensemble, Dublin Mystery Play appeared in 2005 at the Southern Theater, one of Minnesota’s premium stages for dance.

The Ice Palace (director: Jason Bohon) at the Landmark Center during the St. Paul Winter Carnival in 2006 was 3 Sticks Theatre Company’s second production  in the Twin Cities.

Francine Conley starred in Lost and Found at Intermedia Arts in 2006.

Phil Callen played Beethoven, risen from the dead to star in a new sitcom, during a scene called What the F*&k by Tom Poole at Thirst Theater in 2006. Using area restaurants and bars as the set, Thirst Theater produced short plays by some of the Twin Cities best writers and actors.

Long-time Minnesota husband and wife actors Barbara Kingsley and Stephen D’Ambrose portrayed husband and wife on stage in Daniel Pinkerton’s Do You Want to Know a Secret? (director: Leah Cooper) at Intermedia Arts in 2006.

Commedia Beauregard brought The Young Lady's Consent (director: Christopher O. Kidder; pictured: Jerome Marzullo, Jane Hammill and Lauren B. Wills) to the Lowry Lab Theater in St. Paul in 2007.

3 Sticks returned to the St. Paul Winter Carnival in 2007 with A Midwinter Night's Dream (director: Jason Bohon). This production, with Jason Ballweber, Sara Richardson, and Katrina Hawley, was performed on Harriet Island.

Wait I Think My Eyes Were Closed (choreographers: Shelby Hayhoe, Jill Peterson and Jeff Mason) was seen at the Southern Theater in 2007.

In 2007, Bedlam Theatre moved in to a new, larger space with a restaurant and outside patio. Mischka Productions brought Aftermath (director: Katie Kaufmann) there in 2007. Pictured: Sara Richardson, Marcus Quiniones, Jason Bohon, Kimberly Richardson, and Jon Ferguson.

Zenon Dance Company and School has been central to the dance community in Minnesota since its founding in 1983. Falling through Changes (choreographer: Cathy Wright), at the Zenon studios in the Hennepin Center for the Arts, was part of the Zenon Block E Scholarship Concert in 2008.

Jeffrey Hatcher’s Tyrone and Ralph (director: Ron Peluso; starring Mark Benninghofen and Steve Hendrickson) at the History Theatre in 2008 paid homage to, arguably, the most important collaboration in Minnesota theater history—impresario Tyrone Guthrie and architect Ralph Rapson.

The ambitious Cromulent Shakespeare Co. performed Chekhov’s sprawling and complex Three Sisters (director: Mitchell "Bucky" Fay; left to right: Allen Malicsi, Tom Emmott, Timothy "Chief" Jopek, Dawn Krosnowski Malicsi, Bethany Ford, and Kate Klippen) at the Black Forest Inn in 2008.

In 2008, Bryant Lake Bowl hosted the first Twin Cities Chekhov Festival. A Boring Story, adapted by Eric Hockett and directed by Zach Curtis from a short story by Anton Chekhov, starred Maggie Chestovich and Bruce Hyde.

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Scott Pakudaitis

Scott Pakudaitis is a freelance photographer who loves photographing theater, dance, and squirrels. By day, he's a Research and Data Analyst for the College of St. Catherine. He lives in St. Paul with a menagerie.