Tagged theater
May 29 2026
“The Hobbit” at Theatre in the Round Understands the Heart of LARPing
Greg Banks’s adaptation of J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit is not quite a straight book-to-stage translation. The story is told through a framing device: that of a group of survivors 30 years in the future, following an apocalyptic event (the exact nature of which remains vague). When the actors scheduled…
Oct 30 2025
Theater Mu Opens Its 2025–2026 Season with a Heartbreaking Debut
To kick off its 35th season, St. Paul’s Theater Mu, which focuses on telling the stories of the Asian American experience, debuted Maybe You Could Love Me at the Mixed Blood Theatre. Written by Samah Meghjee and directed by Katie Bradley, the play is a coming-of-age story about two queer Muslim…
Oct 22 2025
Highlights from a Day at the 2025 Twin Cities Horror Festival
The Twin Cities Horror Festival (TCHF) is on now through October 30, 2025, at the Crane Theater in Minneapolis. I wasn’t able to see all of this year’s shows, unfortunately, but I was able to fit in a five-show run on Saturday, October 18. I do think the ideal way to take in festivals like TCHF…
Mar 15 2024
Theater Mu Nails Cinematic Horror Onstage in Hells Canyon
Stage horror can be a mixed bag. Even productions with huge budgets can struggle to escape the uncanny valley between the intimacy that gives theater its power and the artificial trickery that fuels tension and jump scares. I say this as someone who loves both—I’ve emerged from many onstage thrillers…
Feb 03 2024
The Stage Adaptation of Spirited Away Brings a Studio Ghibli Classic to Live Action
When I first arrived in Japan in July 2001, a new Studio Ghibli film called 『千と千尋の神隠し』 (Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi, or Sen and Chihiro’s Spiriting Away), had just opened. I was thrilled to be able to see a Hayao Miyazaki film in its first release. Although I had very little understanding of the…
Mar 11 2022
At the Jungle Theater, Redwood Examines the Legacy of Race in America
Two men enter a coffee shop. One is Black. One is white. They sit down at a table together. They’ve never met before, but we learn the Black man reached out to the white man through email. The white man isn’t sure what the Black man wants, but he’s cordial, friendly even, if a bit guarded.…
Feb 16 2022
Reboot Is a Unique Hybrid of Virtual Theater and Escape Room
One of my favorite shows I’ve ever seen in Minneapolis was Dangerous Productions and Live Action Set‘s immersive Crime and Punishment in 2015, which, among its many achievements, boasted the building of a whole city in the Soap Factory basement. One virtue of live theater, the creators noted,…
Jul 21 2021
Matheater’s Nikola Tesla and the Mother of Invention to Premiere in Minneapolis July 23
Do you like science? History? Theater?
Then you should definitely consider checking out Nikola Tesla and the Mother of Invention, the newest musical production from Matheatre—the Minneapolis-based theater company that aims to tell stories that emphasize STEM topics. The show, making its world…
Mar 25 2021
Lakeshore Players’ The Lady with All the Answers Is Refreshingly Familiar
God, I miss live theater.
Technically Lakeshore Players’ performance of The Lady with All the Answers doesn’t qualify, as it’s not live and I watched it on the same screen I’ve used to play 300 hours of Destiny 2 over the last year. But something in my soul perked up as this performance…
Feb 01 2021
Watch Minnesota Creators Discuss How Theater Has Responded to the Pandemic
How has live theater adapted during the COVID-19 pandemic? We hosted a panel of local Minnesota theater professionals to talk about staging both in-person and virtual performances that are safe for performers and audiences, the challenges and unexpected discoveries of creating during the pandemic,…