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Ed Huyck

Ed Huyck is a Minneapolis-based arts and entertainment writer. Read his blog at noiseannoysminn.blogspot.com.

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Need a theater fix? New offerings, from Stillwater to Minnetonka

By Ed Huyck | 07/22/10
July may be a quiet month on the theater front ­ — blame Minnesota's outdoor obsessions and the buildup to the Minnesota Fringe Festival ­ — but there are some new works out there.
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Bedlam Theatre looking for new home

By Ed Huyck | 07/15/10
One of the West Bank's signature venues is looking for a new home. Bedlam Theatre, which for the past four years has made its home at 1501 S. 6th St.
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'Aladdin, Jr.,' first offering of Public Theater of Minnesota, opens Friday

By Ed Huyck | 07/14/10
As the director of theater at Hopkins High School, Mark Hauck has sensed a need for the community as a whole: a community performing program that bridges youth and adults and amateur and professional.
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It takes time, but 'Streetcar' smolders

By Ed Huyck | 07/12/10
"A Streetcar Named Desire" is about passion as overheated as the New Orleans summer in which it is set. The Guthrie Theater's production takes some time to find that heat, but when it comes it burns across the stage.
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Graveyard play 'Traveling Light' makes for perfect weekend night

By Ed Huyck | 07/12/10
Performing without any sets other than what nature and Minneapolis' Layman's Cemetery provide, ­ and using no lights other than the occasional flashlight, ­ Theatre Pro Rata's "Traveling Light" truly makes the audience feel like voyeurs, looking in
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More Shakespeare in the park: 'Midsummer Night's Dream' at Powderhorn

By Ed Huyck | 07/09/10
The Strange Capers will perform "A Midsummer Night's Dream" at Powderhorn Park weekends through the rest of July. Randy Reyes directs the production.
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Theatre Pro Rata explores swinging London -- in a graveyard

By Ed Huyck | 07/08/10
Theatre Pro Rata opens a world premiere this weekend in a very unusual setting. The company presents Lindsay Harris Friel's "Traveling Light" at the Layman¹s Cemetery in South Minneapolis.
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Southern Theater announces ambitious new season

By Ed Huyck | 07/07/10
The Southern Theater has announced an ambitious 2010-2011 season, bringing a mixture of theater, dance, music and film to the century-old venue on the West Bank.The season, titled “Standing Together,” features a number of commissions, world and regi
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Benefit set for storytellers Allison Broeren and Marlow

By Ed Huyck | 06/29/10
It's never easy making a living as an artist, ­ and sometimes multiple crises can just be overwhelming.
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'Othello,' 'Comedy of Errors' open Great River Shakespeare Festival in Winona

By Ed Huyck | 06/25/10
Theatergoers looking for an excursion outside of the Twin Cities can head down the Mississippi River valley for the annual Great River Shakespeare Festival in Winona, which opened this weekend.