How You Can Support The Playhouse During the Holiday Season

If you’re looking to help out this holiday season, here’s a short list of ways you can support The Duluth Playhouse in a variety of impactful ways. Thank you for your generosity!     GIFT CERTIFICATES: Give an evening of theatre for the holidays! Gift cards to The Duluth Playhouse can be purchased for any monetary […]

Five Questions with Doody, Frenchie, Roger and Jan

Our summer musical, Grease, is just about to enter its third and final week of performances, and we think it’s about time you got to know the crew a little bit more! Take a little time to get to know Jake Nelson (Doody), Jennie Ross (Frenchie), Kyle McMillan (Roger), and Daylen Moore (Jan) as we […]

Five Questions with Sandy, Danny, Rizzo, and Kenickie

Our summer musical, Grease, opens in a mere two days, and it’s about time we get to know our actors! Take a little time to get to know Jenna Kelly (Sandy), Matias Valero (Danny), Christina Stroup (Rizzo), and Ole Dack (Kenickie) as we ask them five questions each about the show, their rehearsals, and their […]

REVIEW: Razor-sharp ‘Sweeney Todd’ at NorShor

Tales of murder, the macabre and midnight’s bloodiest deeds have long held the power to capture our darkest imaginations and haunt our dreams. Composer/Lyricist Stephen Sondheim mixes the style of the Victorian “penny-dreadfuls” and the Grand-Guignol in Paris, with their naturalistic and amoral horror stories, to create his classic Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of […]

REVIEW: Playhouse cooks up a winner with ‘Don’t Dress for Dinner’

This review was written by Lawrance Bernabo and originally appeared on February 1, 2019, in the Duluth News Tribune. In Don’t Dress for Dinner, the French farce that returned to the NorShor stage Thursday night (1/31), Katy Helbacka makes two bold decisions as the director that could have thrown the production off the rails. Fortunately, she […]