“Radio Man”: Playing Garrison Keillor when Keillor is right hereBy Chris Hewitt, Pioneer PressSeptember 25, 2014     Garrison Keillor, left, wrote “Radio Man,” which stars Pearce Bunting. Notice any resemblance?   Any actor will tell you that playing real people adds technical demands. You have to get the walk down, make the voice sound…

Garrison Keillor writes his first play, “Radio Man”By Graydon Royce, Star TribuneSeptember 20, 2014 The writer and radio host launches his first play, “Radio Man,” in which he does — or perhaps does not — reveal himself. Garrison Keillor arrived late for a rehearsal at History Theatre. If this shock-topped scarecrow had emerged from a…

History lessons from Park Square and History Theatreby Graydon RoyceMay 1, 2014 Park Square and History Theatre open shows this week not seen before in the Twin Cities. Two premieres — one world and one regional — make St. Paul a theater destination this weekend. They will be cutting the ribbon on “Working Boys Band”…

History Theatre’s ‘Boys’ recalls music, street life of WWI Minneapolisby Euan KerrMay 1, 2014 The people of Minneapolis always seem concerned that youngsters without enough to do will get into trouble. It’s a theme History Theater Artistic Director Ron Peluso recognized immediately when composer Hiram Titus arrived on his doorstep with an old black and…

Pioneer Pressby Mary Ann GrossmanMarch 13, 2014   A young soldier tries to make sense of the war he’s fighting in Vietnam’s jungles. More than 30 years later, seven women soldiers are battle-tested on the sands of Iraq. These characters come to life in History Theatre’s productions of “The Things They Carried” and “Lonely Soldiers:…

MinnPostBy Ellen J. KennedyMarch 12, 2014  More than 280,000 women have served in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2001. These women, like all military personnel, have been involved in a range of capacities, from desk jobs to active engagement in firefights. Women made up 67 of the nearly 3,500 Americans lost in hostile fire in Iraq…

Mpls St Paul – Best of the Twin Citiesby William Randall BeardMarch 14, 2014 War is hell, and the History Theatre explores what that hell looks like up-close with two plays built around first-person accounts of combat and military life. The Things They Carried is a one-man performance of Tim O’Brien’s novel about the American…