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Bev Wolfe is a local attorney and an avid theatergoer.

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THEATER | "I Wish You Love" returns to Penumbra Theatre for another run

By Bev Wolfe, TC Daily Planet

This weekend, Penumbra Theatre brought back its extremely successful production of I Wish You Love about Nat King Cole and the early days of broadcast television. Written and developed by Dominic Taylor, the show celebrated its world premiere in its spring run at Penumbra and played to sold-out performances at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. before occupying the Hartford Stage in Connecticut. Having heard rave reviews about the original production, I was disappointed last spring when I learned it was sold out. My opportunity to see it finally this last weekend proved to be well worth the wait.MORE »

"Trojan Women" at Old Arizona Theater: A modern dance twist on a classic anti-war story

By Bev Wolfe, Arts Orbit

Last weekend Green T Productions opened its production of Euripides’ anti-war play Trojan Women at the Old Arizona Theater.MORE »

THEATER | Theatre Coup d'Etat ousts the Guthrie with a ferocious "Macbeth"

By Bev Wolfe, TC Daily Planet

A ferocious production of Macbeth roared onto the Lowry Lab stage last weekend. Brazon Theatre presented the play as the premiere offering of a new theatre organization called Theatre Coup D’Etat. The result of this partnership is a Macbeth that is far more compelling and entreating than the production I saw at the Guthrie in 2010.MORE »

THEATER | Yellow Tree Theatre's "Love Letters": Simple and moving

By Bev Wolfe, TC Daily Planet

Love Letters, by A.R. Gurney, is now on stage at Yellow Tree Theatre featuring the husband/wife team of Tom and Pat Isbell. The Isbells’ presentation of two souls who find comfort with each other through their written correspondence, despite their oftentimes lonely existence, makes for a charming and bittersweet show.MORE »

Capitol Steps make merry at the Orpheum Theatre

By Bev Wolfe, TC Daily Planet

The Capitol Steps are a side-splitting political satire group. They breezed through Minneapolis last week with an under-promoted one-night performance at the Orpheum Theatre. Most political satire getting attention today is on Saturday Night Live, The Daily Show, or The Colbert Report. However, the Capitol Steps have been doing send-ups of politicians almost as long as SNL and hit the mark more consistently than the other shows.MORE »

THEATER | An effectively campy, creepy "Cabaret" from Frank Theatre

By Bev Wolfe, TC Daily Planet

A seductive evening at the Kit Kat Club is provided by Frank Theatre's production of Cabaret. I have seen Cabaret performed on stage twice before but, despite a slow start, this production is the most compelling of the three. Under Wendy Knox's direction, the performance concentrates on two couples whose romance is intruded upon by the growing Nazi menace. The social pathology of Weimar Germany initially takes on a playful eroticism that turns ominous; portraying the enticing nature of evil.MORE »

THEATER | Teatro del Pueblo's 10th Annual Political Theatre Festival examines questions of Latino identity

By Bev Wolfe, TC Daily Planet

"Latinos in Transition" is the theme for the 10th Annual Political Theatre Festival, presented by Teatro del Pueblo and Pangea World Theater. In its 10th year, the festival is becoming a staple in the community and Al Justiniano, artistic director of Teatro del Pueblo, hopes that the festival will continue for many more years.MORE »

THEATER | As "Mother Courage," Barbra Berlovitz is a must-see

By Bev Wolfe, TC Daily Planet

Tony Kushner's updated version of Bertold Brecht's anti-war masterpiece Mother Courage and Her Children opened last week at the Lab Theater. Bricklayers Theatre and Collectif Masque's co-production of Mother Courage provides a brilliant blend of costume, masks, music, and physical humor that should not be missed.MORE »

THEATER | A fast, funny, and profane "Misanthrope" at Illusion Theater

By Bev Wolfe, TC Daily Planet

Illusion Theater and the Lighthouse Group presented Molière's Misanthrope or the Impossible Lovers as this year's Lights Up production. Eric Powell Holm updated and directed this famous 17th century French comedy of manners about love, hypocrisy and self-indulgence. The production starts out sluggish but ultimately proves worthwhile.MORE »

THEATER | "Miracle on Chrismas Lake" at Yellow Tree Theatre: Osse-awesome!

By Bev Wolfe, TC Daily Planet

When Osseo's Yellow Tree Theatre opened in 2008, a last-minute loss of rights to a different holiday play resulted in co-founder Jessica Lind writing the last-minute holiday play Miracle on Christmas Lake. The production is now in it's third year, and from the way the packed house enjoyed the latest performance of Miracle, it's likely to remain a holiday staple.MORE »

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