A promotional image of the Dixie Chicks. The Dixie Chicks are back! It's been a long time since the Dixie Chicks really made the news. Seventeen years after some on-stage remarks about the U.S. invasion of Iraq sent the band's commercial success into a tailspin, the female trio is back with a
PHOTOS: My Fair Lady Opens at the Orpheum (Hennepin Theatre Trust)
Laird Mackintosh as Professor Henry Higgins, Gayton Scott as Mrs. Pearce, Adam Grupper as Alfred P. Doolittle, Kevin Pariseau as Colonel Pickering, and Shereen Ahmed as Eliza Doolittle in the national tour of My Fair Lady, now playing at the Orpheum Theatre in Minneapolis. Photo by Joan Marcus. The national tour
REVIEW: Delightful Children’s Hour in Bob Marley’s Three Little Birds (Children’s Theatre Company)
Lynnea Doublette, Ellis M. Dossavi Alipoeh, and Kory LaQuess Pullam in the Children's Theatre Company production of Bob Marley’s Three Little Birds. Photo by Glen Stubbe Photography. A bit of Jamaica is available at Children’s Theatre with its production of Bob Marley’s Three Little Birds. The play is based on a
REVIEW: Religion, Rigidity, and Rebellion in The Convert (Frank Theatre)
A scene from Frank Theatre's The Convert, now playing at the Gremlin Theatre in St. Paul, MN. Photo by Tony Nelson. It took eight years for Wendy Knox to secure the rights for Frank Theatre to stage Danai Gurira's play The Convert. This play, set against the backdrop late-19th-century Zimbabwe, tells
REVIEW: Intriguing A Doll’s House, Part 2 (Jungle)
Steven Epp (as Torvald) and Christina Baldwin (as Nora) in the Jungle Theater production of A Doll's House, Part 2, now playing in Minneapolis, MN. Photo by Lauren B. Photography. What happens to Nora? This question has lingered with theatregoers ever since Nora first walked out on her family at the
REVIEW: Stellar, Riveting Romeo & Juliet (COLLIDE)
Renee Guittar (Juliet) and Rush Benson (Romeo) in a promotional image for COLLIDE Theatrical's ballet adaptation of Romeo & Juliet. Staging what is often described as the greatest love story ever told on Valentine's Day might sound hokey. COLLIDE Theatrical's ballet setting of William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet is anything but:
REVIEW: The Latin Jazz Master at Work: Eddie Pamilieri (Dakota Jazz Club)
The legendary pianist-composer and bandleader Eddie Palmieri played at The Dakota Jazz Club on February 9. Photo courtesy of Uprising Music NYC. Eddie Palmieri is 83 years old, has won numerous Grammy awards, and has over 50 albums released over 50-plus years of recording. In 2013, what everyone knew was made
REVIEW: Earthgang, Mick Jenkins Ignite Sold Out Crowd (Varsity Theater)
Promotional art for Earthgang's Mirrorland. Varsity Theater remains the pinnacle of intimate, yet still riveting concerts from music’s most exciting up-and-comers. Located in Dinkytown, the celebrated theater welcomed rising Atlanta hip-hop duo, Earthgang, on their Welcome to Mirrorland Tour Wednesday night. Accompanied by Portland MC Wynne (currently enrolled at the University
REVIEW: The Collapse of the Blue Collar Dream in Skeleton Crew (Yellow Tree Theatre)
Darius Dotch, Jamecia Bennett, and Mikell Sapp in Yellow Tree Theatre's production of Skeleton Crew, now playing in Osseo, MN. Photo by Justin Cox. Feelings of hopelessness and perseverance pervade in Dominque Morisseau’s play Skeleton Crew, the last in Morisseau’s trilogy on life in her hometown of Detroit, Michigan. This third
MOVIE REVIEW: Escapist Fantasy Ass-Kicking in Birds of Prey
Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie, center) is the center of the new comic book universe action movie Birds of Prey (DC Films/Warner Brothers). The voluminously titled Birds of Prey: The Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn is the antithesis of the recent Joker. Both are based on DC Comics properties and were