The stage production is based on the ’80s cult classic that helped launch the careers of Winona Ryder and Christian Slater.
W. Jerome Stevenson
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“It’s kind of this generation’s Sweeney Todd in a weird kind of way.”
“It’s kind of this generation’s Sweeney Todd in a weird kind of way.”
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American Idiot generates excitement before the curtain rises at Guthrie’s Pollard Theatre
The Pollard Theatre’s production of American Idiot uses little dialogue, relying instead on the lyrics written by Green Day frontman Billy Joe Armstrong.
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Local theater companies tell us what to look forward to this fall
Artistic directors guide us through what one hopes will be a challenging, thought-provoking, enlightening and entertaining season.
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Dickensian delight
The Pollard Theatre continues its 25th season with the Tony-winning 1985 musical comedy “Drood: The Mystery of Edwin Drood.” Written by musician Rupert Holmes, “Drood” is inspired by Charles Dickens’ final, unfinished, novel. Its conceit is that the production is being mounted by the loony Victorian troupe Music Hall Royale, with all the actors impressively […]
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Down the ‘Rabbit Hole’
In the 2006 drama “Rabbit Hole,” playwright David Lindsay-Abaire examines a family’s grief after the accidental death of a young boy. But he doesn’t provide any more insight than have the philosophers, theologians and pop psychologists who’ve come before him. That’s because Lindsay-Abaire takes on the great unanswerable question: Why do bad things happen to […]
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Ribald, not ‘Rotten’
The musical “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels,” now at the Pollard Theatre, includes a song titled “Oklahoma?,” sung by a character named Jolene Oakes, an oil heiress in a mink coat and miniskirt (played by the really funny Cory King), and it’s a humdinger. Maybe someone will start a petition to make it the state song. I’d […]