2+ hour, 39+ min ago   (198+ words) twincities.com If this company is a family, Emma Irene Olson proclaims in “Space Company,” her middle-manager character is our mom now. The solo satire alternates between this kooky caricature of patriarchal corporate life and…something else. Occasionally, blue light…...

3+ day, 1+ hour ago   (103+ words) Pioneer Press Presented by Dave Dvorak; 2:30 p.m. Aug. 8, 7:00 p.m. Aug 12, 5:30 p.m. Aug 13 8:30 p.m. Aug 16 Still trying to decide what to see? Find concise reviews of more 2026 Fringe Festival shows at twincities.com/tag/fringe-festival, with each show rated on a scale of Must See,…...

3+ day, 1+ hour ago   (216+ words) Pioneer Press “Something’s happening here, but you don’t know what it is,” a famous Minnesotan once sang, and that’s the atmosphere permeating playwright Edwin Strout’s delicious dark comedy “I’m Afraid, I Have to Leave.” The classic Upper Midwest extended farewell…...

3+ day, 1+ hour ago   (218+ words) Pioneer Press Jake Mierva’s fictional anti-hero, Norman, bares (almost) all in a jittery and moving, if at times overly breathless, solo performance as he strips to his skivvies and channels the Silver Surfer, the cosmic herald and sometimes-foil of Galactus,…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (1446+ words) Maggie Faris approached the stage at the American Legion VFW comedy show with her usual laid back confidence and the familiar jingle of a stacked carabiner on her pant loop. Preconceptions about her butch lesbian presentation didn’t bother her — she…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (344+ words) Amanda and Elyot are crazy about each other. Or perhaps they’re just plain crazy. They are the central characters in Noel Coward’s 1930 comedy “Private Lives,” a theatrical classic currently receiving an expertly executed revival on the Guthrie Theater’s thrust stage....

4+ week, 2+ day ago   (507+ words) It’s looking like a Cowardly summer at Twin Cities theaters. After a difficult winter, local theatergoers could use some lively laughter, so why not look to the bumbling, romantically conflicted aristocrats created by English playwright Noel Coward in the first…...

4+ week, 2+ day ago   (181+ words) Comedy is a matter of taste and preference — it’s a deeply personal thing. Which makes it hard for a critic to give a blanket assessment of a specific kind of comedy, especially if it didn’t work for them, but clearly…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (236+ words) St. Paul-based Theater Mu, the Midwest’s largest Asian American theater company, announced a 2026–27 season with shows that aim to “echo the nationwide fights for social justice and speak to universal experiences of family, community, displacement, and empowerment.” “This season is…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (670+ words) Did you know that three things have happened since the last time we saw each other, when I was in kindergarten, an elementary-schooler asked Reed Sigmund a few months ago. “I was like, three things?!” Sigmund, the artistic director of…...