News & Notes

  • A Cultural Convergence

    Editorial

    In Minnesota we’re familiar with the intimacy of snow--the loud quiet it creates as it falls after dark. It’s in...

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  • Hosanna’s an Upstart

    Review

    Jam-packed with songs, the cultural touchstone Jesus Christ Superstar (music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Tim Rice) continues...

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  • Bad Rules and Few Options

    Review

    This was an, uh, interesting play to go to with my divorced partner and my just-shy-of-one-year divorced self. You have...

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  • It’s a Trip

    Review

    Getting to the Gremlin theater had me running because even though Google kept telling me I was there, I wasn’t...

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  • Repelling Holiday Cynicism

    Review

    As of this writing, it’s two days after Christmas, one day before my birthday (also Denzel Washington’s), and I’m at...

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  • Only Imagine

    Review

    At its best, devised theater can point towards the problematic or expected aspects of theater that are easy to overlook...

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  • Meet Jane Froiland

    Interview

    Our new host for The Bazzness - Jane Froiland - took a few moments to answer some questions for Playlist...

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  • Individuals and a Whole

    Review

    Told against the foggy and horrifically bleak backdrop of WWI trench warfare, All Is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914 ...

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  • Queens in Miserable Marriages

    Review

    A musical about the six wives of King Henry VIII, Six started out as a student project by Cambridge University...

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  • The Magic of the Globe

    Review

    There is often a sense of magic that floats in the air in the season of Christmas--a sense of spark...

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