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REVIEW: City Pages
When Hiram Titus passed away last fall, he left behind high-quality music for shows as diverse as the Guthrie’s A Christmas Carol to the musical Hormel Girls.
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REVIEW: Pioneer Press
It’s the early 20th century and a transplanted music professor wants to get boys out of the pool hall and into a marching band, evoking visions of crisply tailored uniforms, booming brass and Midwestern hearts swelling with civic pride.
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REVIEW: Cherry and Spoon
In the early 20th Century in Minneapolis, when children were forced to work long hours in factories, a marching band was formed to keep these boys off the streets and improve their lives through music and teamwork.
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REVIEW: Star Tribune
“The Working Boys Band” falls into that category of theater that is good for you, whether you like it or not. It’s an interesting slice of Minneapolis history, served with a side dish of politics about the anti-German hysteria attendant to World War I, and completed with a couple of budding romances.
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REVIEW: HowWasTheShow.com
The History Theatre has premiered a new musical that uses a relatively obscure bit of history to illuminate a corner of the dynamic environment of Minneapolis in 1917, just as America was entering W.W. I.
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REVIEW: ‘The Things They Carried’ and ‘Lonely Soldiers: Women at War in Iraq’ at History Theater: What you can do to help
Dramas about soldiers at war might as well be critic-proof. If you have a problem with a story of soldiers in battle, you should be ready for someone to ask, “Why do you hate America?”
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REVIEW: The Things They Carried at The History Theatre
In the History Theatre’s latest production “The Things They Carried”, based on Tim O’Brien’s best selling book, recounts a young Minnesotan’s experiences during his time in Vietnam as well as before and since the war.
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REVIEW: ‘The Things They Carried’ and ‘Lonely Soldiers: Women at War in Iraq’ at the History Theatre
The History Theatre is currently producing two plays in rep, both dealing with the effects of war on the soldiers who fight in them. The Things They Carried is based on the semi-autobiographical collection of short stories by Tim O’Brien, a Minnesota man who was drafted out of college in 1968 and sent to Vietnam.
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REVIEW: ‘The Things They Carried’ review: One-man show recalls Vietnam with words, sounds
As the Vietnam War recedes in time, the shadow it casts gets longer — and its shape changes. Men who felt rejected for fighting in the war in the 1960s are today asked to rise and receive applause for serving (as with the audience of this show).
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REVIEW: ‘Lonely Soldiers’ Review: Play highlights hell of being a woman at war
This is powerful stuff. It’s theater that begs for real change. “Lonely Soldiers: Women at War in Iraq” at History Theatre follows the paths of seven women of diverse backgrounds who ended up in Iraq. It’s based on accounts from interviews playwright Helen Benedict conducted that appeared in her 2009 nonfiction book.