REVIEW: Virtual show satisfies those who need a little Christmas

Every holiday season, the Playhouse traditionally presents a big, colorful blockbuster musical with sold-out audiences of folks dressed up in their best “out on the town” finery. This year, however, a virtual small concert was the safest choice for both performers and audiences. For Songs of the Season, NorShor Artistic Director Phillip Fazio gathered four […]

REVIEW: ‘Government Inspector’ a funny Russian farce full of big, bold moments

THE REVIEW The Duluth Playhouse is putting on The Government Inspector. It is a farce. A Russian farce. About politicians. (No, not that one.) This version of The Government Inspector has been adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher, who strips Nikolai Gogol’s script down to the skeleton and rebuilds it with jokes guaranteed to hit an American […]