Anyone ever heard that song, "Deep and wide, deep and wide, there's a fountain flowing deep and wide"? Well, let me tell you, that should be the theme song for Minneapolis' arts pool. In the past two weeks, I have seen 100 (count 'em -- A HUNDRED) shows, and by the end of this weekend you can add three more to that count. (Okay, if you don't count each piece in the One Minute Play Festival individually, it's been eleven. But still, folks, that'll make 14 performances since March 1!)
Here's the tally so far:
Or, – Park Square Theatre
Buzzer – Guthrie Dowling Studio
Courting Harry – History Theatre
Twelfth Night – Guthrie Wurtele Thrust
The One Minute Play Festival – Mixed Blood Theatre
The Taming of the Shrew – Guthrie Wurtele Thrust
Other Desert Cities – Guthrie McGuire Proscenium
Puppet Labs – In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre
Cynthia Hopkins: This Clement World – Walker Art Center McGuire Theater
Elemeno Pea – Mixed Blood Theatre
Continuum:2013 by Michele Be – Pillsbury House Theatre
My next three, slated back to back this weekend, are:
Light in the Piazza – Theatre Latte Da/Ordway McKnight
Pat O'Keefe clarinet recital – Studio Z
Speed the Plow – Dark and Stormy Productions
I've already got some others on the calendar before I dive into rehearsals for This Side of Paradise on March 26, and I hope to get some others scheduled in there, too.
Now, before you start complaining that I didn't see your personal favorite (I know! I know!! I've already missed some doozies I really wish I'd seen!) let me just set the record straight. THERE IS A L.O.T. OF STUFF GOING ON IN THIS TOWN, FOLKS! I'm not going to give personal reviews here of all these shows, first because it would be waaaay too long and second because I'd rather just give everyone kudos for making our arts community so rich and colorful and vital. IMHO, it matters more that we're MAKING art – that we have things pressing on our spirits to say – than how polished it is. In this town, a lot of art is being birthed, and we all know how babies come out looking. But, still, with all that schmutz and the misshapen heads and the poop, we celebrate births. Because it's life! And art is little twinkles of life being born. And folks, our population is booming.
NOW you can tell me what your favorites have been. Don't be shy! I want to know -- what did I miss that I shouldn't've, or what should I absolutely get on the calendar before I begin my own rehearsal sequestration in 10 days? Lay 'em on me. Or, go see these. Or, go make art. Or a baby. Whatever you do, enjoy it. Life is good.
Here's the tally so far:
Or, – Park Square Theatre
Buzzer – Guthrie Dowling Studio
Courting Harry – History Theatre
Twelfth Night – Guthrie Wurtele Thrust
The One Minute Play Festival – Mixed Blood Theatre
The Taming of the Shrew – Guthrie Wurtele Thrust
Other Desert Cities – Guthrie McGuire Proscenium
Puppet Labs – In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre
Cynthia Hopkins: This Clement World – Walker Art Center McGuire Theater
Elemeno Pea – Mixed Blood Theatre
Continuum:2013 by Michele Be – Pillsbury House Theatre
My next three, slated back to back this weekend, are:
Light in the Piazza – Theatre Latte Da/Ordway McKnight
Pat O'Keefe clarinet recital – Studio Z
Speed the Plow – Dark and Stormy Productions
I've already got some others on the calendar before I dive into rehearsals for This Side of Paradise on March 26, and I hope to get some others scheduled in there, too.
Now, before you start complaining that I didn't see your personal favorite (I know! I know!! I've already missed some doozies I really wish I'd seen!) let me just set the record straight. THERE IS A L.O.T. OF STUFF GOING ON IN THIS TOWN, FOLKS! I'm not going to give personal reviews here of all these shows, first because it would be waaaay too long and second because I'd rather just give everyone kudos for making our arts community so rich and colorful and vital. IMHO, it matters more that we're MAKING art – that we have things pressing on our spirits to say – than how polished it is. In this town, a lot of art is being birthed, and we all know how babies come out looking. But, still, with all that schmutz and the misshapen heads and the poop, we celebrate births. Because it's life! And art is little twinkles of life being born. And folks, our population is booming.
NOW you can tell me what your favorites have been. Don't be shy! I want to know -- what did I miss that I shouldn't've, or what should I absolutely get on the calendar before I begin my own rehearsal sequestration in 10 days? Lay 'em on me. Or, go see these. Or, go make art. Or a baby. Whatever you do, enjoy it. Life is good.
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