Theatre Pro Rata’s “The Taming of the Shrew” at the Gremlin Theater
Theatre Pro Rata's THE TAMING OF THE SHREW publicity photo Theatre Pro Rata kicked off their 2010-2011 season with a classic and a comedy – a combination that veers from the norm for the established...
View Article“Cat’s Paw” produced by Theatre Pro Rata at the Gremlin Theater
Kathy Kupiecki, David Beukema in "Cat's Paw." Photo credit: Charlie Gorrill. “Cat’s Paw” by William Mastrosimone, Theatre Pro Rata’s new offering showing at the Gremlin Theater, paints a “what if”...
View ArticleT Bone N Weasel at Theatre Pro Rata, performing at the Gremlin
Mark Benzel and Theo Langason in T Bone N Weasel. Photo by Charlie Gorrill. T Bone N Weasel (Theatre Pro Rata, through March 18, performing at the Gremlin Theatre) is showing its age. First produced...
View ArticleA Behanding In Spokane at the Gremlin Theatre
Luverne Seifert in A Behanding In Spokane. Photo by Aaron Fenster. Playwright Martin McDonagh has a rep as a hard-drinking Irishman, an angry and dyspeptic glorifier of domineering mothers,...
View ArticleRocket To The Moon by the Gremlin Theatre, performing at the New Century Theatre
Peter Christian Hansen and Jane Froiland in Rocket To The Moon. Photo by Aaron Fenster. Once a much bally-hoo’d darling of the New York theater – the Group Theatre made its reputation (or at least its...
View ArticleDeath And The Maiden, a co-production of Torch Theater and Gremlin Theatre,...
Peter Christian Hansen, Craig Johnson and Stacia Rice in Death And The Maiden. Photo by Aaron Fenster. This production of the oft-produced Death And The Maiden (Torch Theater and Gremlin Theatre,...
View ArticleInterview: Peter Christian Hansen and Ashley Montondo
Peter Christian Hansen We stopped in at the Garage Theater to talk with Peter Christian Hansen, founder and artistic director of St. Paul’s Gremlin Theater, about his approach to his craft as well as...
View ArticleH2O by Gremlin Theatre, performing at the Minneapolis Theatre Garage
Ashley Montondo, Peter Christian Hansen in H2O. Plan on going out for drinks following Gremlin Theater’s regional premier of Jane Martin’s new play H2O, because you will need them. Not only is the show...
View ArticleGremlin’s New Performing Space: Finally, Some Good Theater News
Been wondering about the Gremlin Theatre? Wonder no more. They’ve been busy, creating a much-needed new twin cities performance venue, in St. Paul’s Vandalia Tower. This spunky purveyor of edgy...
View ArticleRoller Derby Queen: overlong, yes, but still effective
Nancy Marvy in ROLLER DERBY QUEEN. Photo by Craig VanDerSchaegen. The central conceit of Michele Lepsche‘s affecting (and challenging) Roller Derby Queen (SOS Theater, performing in the wonderful...
View ArticleReview | Measure For Measure: theater underdone
The Ensemble in MEASURE FOR MEASURE. Photo by Anne Bertram. It isn’t surprising that Theatre Unbound, a company formed by women for the advancement of women theatre artists, was drawn to mount a...
View ArticleReview | Equivocation: Jacobean swells having fun
Damon C. Mentzer, Mitch Ross, Peter Simmons, Eve Gemlo and Sdwin Strout in EQUIVOCATION. Photo by Dan Norman. Since 2004, Walking Shadow Theatre Company has been the area’s premier provider of...
View ArticleReview | Dial M For Murder: Dial M For Misogyny, Masculinity and Morals (or...
Emily Dussault and Peter Christian Hansen in DIAL M FOR MURDER. Photo by Alyssa Kristine. You probably know Dial M for Murder better as a film by Alfred Hitchcock. Gremlin Theatre’s season opener...
View ArticleReview | The Clean House: clean, but not clean-cut
Theatre Unbound’s production of Sarah Ruhl’s The Clean House (Theatre Unbound,performing at the Gremlin Theater until November 18) is only one of at least ten productions of this play in the country...
View ArticleReview | Dog Act: post-apocalyptic rage
Joe Wiener and Ariel Leaf in DOG ACT. Photo by Scott Pakudaitis Liz Duffy Adams‘s intermittently amusing Dog Act (Fortune’s Fool Theatre performing in The Gremlin) brings to mind the work of a number...
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