REVIEW: Reality Bites in Promise Land (Transatlantic Love Affair) Arts Dance Theatre by Dan Reiva - February 4, 2017February 4, 2017 Emily Michaels King and Avi Aharoni in Transatlantic Love Affair's production of Promise Land. Promise Land, a play by Transatlantic Love Affair, is about the immigrant experience in early twentieth century America. It is undoubtedly a timely and highly relevant topic. This play reveals the trials and fears two young and
REVIEW: Riveting Miranda Right (Illusion Theater) Arts Theatre by Dan Reiva - February 4, 2017February 4, 2017 Reed (Steve Hendrickson) and Miranda (Carolyn Pool) discuss CIA business in the Illusion Theater's Miranda. Miranda, an original play by James Still, had its world premiere last weekend at the Illusion Theater. The premiere of an original play is an exciting event, providing insight into an issue the playwright has chosen
REVIEW: Garfunkel, Sans Oates, Sans Simon (Hennepin Theatre Trust) Arts Music by Dan Reiva - January 16, 2017January 16, 2017 Last Thursday night, while waiting in line to be swiped by the metal detector, I met a slightly older woman who must have predated me as a Simon and Garfunkel fan by twenty years. She had heard them live in the Sixties. On a below zero night she had made
REVIEW: Crashing STOMP (Ordway) Arts Dance Music by Dan Reiva - October 30, 2016October 30, 2016 Photo by Steve McNicholas. The performance of this year’s STOMP tour at the Ordway Center in St. Paul, met audience expectations, and then some. It is a most unique theatre experience, being a mix of dance, vaudeville, symphonic percussion, avant-garde theatre, performance art and musique concrète (music from found objects). Like
REVIEW: Queen (Heart of the Beast) Arts Theatre Visual Arts by Dan Reiva - October 9, 2016October 9, 2016 Photo by Bruce Silcox. A boy is shot on a neighborhood street in the midst of the inner city. He was shot and killed even though he had a grandmother who considered him to be her holy child. Her adorning love did not protect the child in that one, tragic moment. In
REVIEW: Waiting and Missing Waiting for Waiting for Godot (Loudmouth Collective) Arts Theatre by Dan Reiva - October 1, 2016October 2, 2016 Photo by Justin D. Gallo Photography. The concept of a character waiting for Waiting for Godot rather intrigued me. When I heard the Loudmouth Collective was presenting a play with that title at the Open Eye Figure Theatre space, I simply had to see it. Ironically, I arrived an hour early
REVIEW: Death of a Salesman to a Different Beat (Yellow Tree Theatre) Arts Theatre by Dan Reiva - September 23, 2016September 23, 2016 Events reach a peak in Yellow Tree Theatre. Photo by Justin Cox Photography. I was taken aback in the first part of Death of a Salesman at Yellow Tree Theatre when Willy Loman said he was sixty. I just turned sixty years' old and I tried to convince myself I was not
REVIEW: Sinuous Pilobolus Dance Theatre Show (Ordway) Arts Dance by Dan Reiva - May 25, 2016May 25, 2016 Pilobolus Dance Theatre presented five recent pieces and one older work from its repertoire in a performance last weekend at the Ordway. With the possible exception of choreographers from the Judson Church Dance Theatre or the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Pilobolus presents the best avant-garde movement in modern dance. It