Theater

The Gremlin Theatre is moving at the end of July. Citing changes in ownership and developmental plans for the building at 2400 University Ave. that has housed the company for the last five years, artistic director Peter Christian Hansen says the time has come to look for new quarters.

There's a friend with whom I try not to talk about my day jobs. Every time it comes up that I'm holding down both a full-time job and another part-time job, the friend inevitably asks, "How much longer are you going to have to do that?" The friend means well. But honestly, sometimes it's all I can do not to say, "Well, you've got a partner with a second income helping support your household. So until I get myself a rich husband, or at least a gainfully employed boyfriend who wants to play house, I'm pretty much on my own to pay the bills. That's how long." Life's expensive. Money is a touchy subject. If you're not making enough money, then you're viewed as not working hard enough, or you're letting yourself be undervalued by others (both notions being, hopefully, bullsh*t, but there are days I wonder). Money shouldn't be the measure of people. But people are human. And money matters.

Babe Lincoln and the Vajazzled Badge of Courage opened February 1 at the Brave New Workshop. The talented duo of Lauren Anderson and Katy McEwen wrote, directed and performed in this two-woman review. The title conjures images of Abe Lincoln (the skit with President Lincoln lasts for only a few minutes), but the show is actually targeted as a “girls night out,” but has humor that works for both genders. Although the show has definite high points, it is not up to the usual Workshop standards. 

Finding words to adequately describe a new production from Ivey Award-winning theater company Transatlantic Love Affair without repeating myself is starting to get mighty difficult. Thankfully there's a line from their current production, an expanded remount of their Minnesota Fringe Festival hit Red Resurrected, that describes it best: