The Tony Award-winning Broadway musical A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder opens Tuesday at the State Theatre. The Twin Cities Arts Reader's Basil Considine chatted up Kevin Massey, who plays the charming Monty Navarro in his quest to become the heir to the D'Ysquith family fortune. Are you sure that you want

Hans Gartner (David Carey) shares a heart-to-heart with daughter Charlotte Gartner (Kendall Anne Thompson). Photo by Amy Anderson. One of the hottest tickets in town last holiday season was 7th House Theater's production of Jonah and the Whale, the ensemble's first original musical. Jonah was a hot ticket for a cold time of year;

Blue Man Group bills itself as the "enemy of monotony, remedy for boredom, promoter of overjoy and elation." While these sound hyperbolic, they are also quite true. The show, which touched down at the Orpheum Theatre on Friday night, is a refreshing piece of alternative theatre that blends wordless situational

The Ordway Center for the Performing Arts is not what it once was – and that's a good thing. Since 1980, when Sally Ordway Irvine donated the seed money for a new concert hall, the building and host organization have grown by leaps and bounds. Tours and headliner performers still

Pictured: Blue Man Group. November-December are some of the busiest months in the Twin Cities theatre season, with umpteen holiday shows and more Christmas Carol and Nutcracker variations than you can shake a stick at. Here's a non-holiday sampler of shows to take the kids to this weekend: Blue Man Group. This hard-to-describe

Last year, actress Billie Wildrick delighted audiences as Mother in the Ordway's production of A Christmas Story. When the snows vanished, however, Wildrick was off to Seattle, where musicals about escaping from factory work, drinking, and more drinking awaited. Now, with snow returning, Wildrick herself has returned to play the role of