Impressions: Elliot, A Soldier’s Fugue

This past year at Park Square Theatre, encompassed many themes, and there is so much to look back on with wonder and awe. Least of which was the the fact that it was my first year with the company as a marketing assistant, front of house extraordinaire and theatre blogger! Like I said, many themes …

Looking Ahead: A Raisin in the Sun

Park Square recently unveiled it's new season for 2016-2017 and one of the shows that most excites me is Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun. The story about a family just trying to survive and get ahead it such a powerful one that it resonates as not just an American tale, but a human one. Of course …

What is “The Best” Anyways?

  There are with out a doubt, subjects that can be defined as “best” and… not best. Science, cuisine, and the Minnesota Twins are some starters; you can reasonably say that there’s a difference between what constitutes good and bad. For many things, however, the line is distinctly less obvious and the difference between what’s good …

What’s in a List?

The other week on Facebook (I know... I know...) I came upon this list that was circulating among my network of fellow artisans entitled, "25 Most Important Plays Every Actor Should Read". Now, first off, when I see a headline like that, I immediately roll my eyes and assume that the list is going to …

Job Description: The Mentor

Producers, writers, directors, dramaturgs, choreographers, agents, actors, singers, coffee runners. You name it and it exists in show biz where just about every facet of the theatre as its designated leader, the one who takes control of that job. This is done for obvious reasons: no man is an island and I think we all …

Murder for Two, Please

As I continue to look back on the past year of work at Park Square I get really excited thinking about one show from the fall, Murder for Two. Running from the end of September until the start of November, it was the perfect way to get into the Halloween spirit as it featured a classic whodunit …

Still Thinking about My Children, My Africa

Many people talk about the theatre as a mirror- reflecting back at us our own lives and the world we live in. Many times we see a reflection that makes us laugh and fills us with warmth and frivolity and sometimes, maybe not as often as we should, we see a reflection that scares us …

Welcome to the Ivey’s

Here we are, a week later and the 2016 Ivey Awards are already in our rear-view mirror as we hurtle down the highway towards a new and promising season of theatre in the Twin Cities. Park Square certainly has a full lineup including A Raisin in the Sun , The Liar, and The Soul of Gershwin. Who …

Mississippi *@!!?*@!

One of the things I love most about writing and blogging (and consequently theatre as a whole) is the chance to broaden my education on all kinds of subjects that I had never either heard about or took the time to research. One of those subjects is Nina Simone as an artist and civil rights …

The Real Life Younger Family of Minneapolis

I recently came across a piece from MPR News entitled, "Event Remembers Black Family Terrorized in South Minneapolis." Tenderly, I read on. The article told a short but powerful story about a couple named Arthur and Edith Lee who were among the first African Americans to move into south Minneapolis in 1931, along with their …