114 stories from Girl Meets Broadway
As a fan of the Minnesota Twins I can fully relate to Joe Boyd in Damn Yankees. Both are teams with capable players and coaches, but missing that one player who can provide the spark needed …
Batter Up! This summer the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts is headed to the baseball diamond with Damn Yankees. When aging baseball fanatic Joe Boyd sells his soul to the Devil for the…
Relationships between men and women are complicated enough when there is just two people involved. But, in Lyric Arts’ newest production of the 1960’s comedy Boeing Boeing, Be…
Next week Lerner & Lowe’s Camelot makes a stop at Saint Paul’s Ordway Center for the Performing Arts. This enchanting fable with characters like King Arthur, Guenevere, La…
Remember when you were young and couldn't wait to grow up? Then you could do the fun things grownups were doing like driving a car and not having to go to school? But alas, the world doesn't…
You could figure out time travel, pack the station wagon and take a trip down I-94 to visit Richie, Fonzie, Mr. C and the rest of the gang in Milwaukee. Or, you could take …
In The Jungle Theater’s newest production And the World Goes ‘Round, a musical revue featuring the songs of Kander and Ebb, we are treated to an eclectic collection of love so…
You won’t find anyone full of more optimism and spunk than a little red headed orphan named Annie. Currently playing at Minneapolis’ Orpheum Theatre, Annie is a musical full of h…
Every die hard musical theatre fan has imagined their life as a musical at some point. But most never actually make the dream become reality. This is where Sheena Janson and Max Wojtanowicz …
Good theater makes you think as you leave the theater. Excellent theater makes you think while watching the scenes unfold before you. That is exactly what David Lindsay-Abaire's Good People …
Disney's Beauty and the Beast is as much loved today as when the movie was originally released back in 1991. The tale of a bookish young woman, her inventor father Maurice, the town meathead…
Before becoming the first African American appointed to the Supreme Court, Thurgood Marshall was a lawyer best known for his high success rate in arguing before the Supreme Court and for his…
Grab a raft and take a ride down the mighty Mississippi with Huck Finn and friends in the Children's Theatre Company's production of Huck Finn. Directed and adapted for the stage by Greg Ban…
Long before it was a box office hit for Disney, Into the Woods was a fan favorite on Broadway. Not just a fan favorite, but an actor's favorite too. With music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim…
There comes a time when you realize you can’t please everyone. When you learn that people need to accept you for who you are. That is just one of the messages in La Cage Aux Folles pla…
Everyone longs to spend just five more minutes with a loved one who has passed on. But what if that loved one shows up just to cause havoc for you and your new love? This is exactly what hap…
This Holiday season the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts is home to the regional debut of A Christmas Story: The Musical. This beloved Christmas movie has been adapted for the stage by …
Over the last year, Lyric Arts has proven taking risks doesn’t scare them. These risks have included taking on their biggest production to date in Young Frankenstein. And staging produ…
This Holiday season the beloved Dr. Seuss classic How the Grinch Stole Christmas is ushering in the season at the Children's Theatre Company. Known for terrorizing the residents of Whoville …
And they all lived happily ever after. At least that’s what Disney and fairy tale books would lead you to believe. In Disenchanted! A New Musical Comedy That Gives Fairy Tales the Bird…
Next to Normal, which opened at Bloomington Civic Theatre on Friday, tackles a topic not regularly broached in musical theatre. The rock musical with a book and lyrics by Brian Yorkey and mu…
Joe Iconis is a composer, lyricist and writer based in New York City. His work has been nominated for Drama Desk and Lucille Lortel Awards and he is the recipient of both the Jonathan Larson…
There is something very familiar about Nice Work If You Can Get It, which opened last night at the Ordway in Saint Paul, but unless you made the trip to New York to see the show during its y…
Its only fitting that Lyric Arts’, located in the “Halloween Capital of the World”, most ambitious show to date is Young Frankenstein. This campy, over-the-top musical c…
Everyone knows “Nobody puts Baby in a corner” and now more than 25 years after its theatrical release ‘Dirty Dancing’ is just as popular now as it was then. Possibly …
