Rebecca Mitchell, Writer

Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure opened recently at St. Paul’s Park Square Theatre, as the final show of Park Square’s 2007-8 season. Anyone who appreciates a good mystery is likely to have an enjoyable evening attending this performance. The play, an area premiere, is adapted by Steven Dietz from the 1899 play by Arthur Conan Doyle and William Gillette. The play also incorporates elements of Conan Doyle’s books A Scandal in Bohemia and The Final Problem. MORE »

Audiences visiting the Ordway Center through Sunday will be transported to the Kit Kat Klub in 1930s Berlin, where “life is beautiful, the girls are beautiful, even the orchestra is beautiful.” MORE »

The Minnesota Opera ended its season April 20 with Antonin Dvorak’s Rusalka. The opera tells the story of a water nymph who longs to be mortal and pursue her love of the prince who swims the lake. Despite warnings to the contrary, Rusalka turns to the witch Jezibaba to turn human, becoming mute along the way. What Rusalka does not expect is the loneliness she experiences in the mortal world as the prince betrays her love, and she soon returns to the lake. In the end, the prince revisits the lake to find his lost love, but upon a single embrace, he dies in her arms. MORE »

Bryony Lavery’s Frozen, a 2004 Tony Award nominee for best play, opens this week at Park Square Theatre in St. Paul. Frozen follows the intertwining stories of a tattooed serial killer (Terry Hempleman), a grieving mother (Karen Landry) and a psychologist (Linda Kelsey) studying the criminal mind. MORE »

The subject matter of Parade is not that of your typical musical. However, with a Tony-award winning book by Alfred Uhry (Driving Miss Daisy, Last Night of Ballyhoo) and a Tony-award winning original score by Jason Robert Brown (Songs for a New World, The Last Five Years), solemn historical events are transformed into a riveting and touching musical. MORE »