Posts by Nick Lethert

Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer-Prize-winning play Our Town first hit stages in 1938, but the play chronicling the life and times of the citizens of Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire, begins in 1901. The story ends in 1913, before the two world wars that changed everything; it was also the year my grandmother was born. One hundred years later, Nightpath Theatre Company has been taking their own production of Our Town on the road—to schools, senior facilities, and community centers around the state. The final destination for their tour was a couple of public performances at the Southern Theater in Minneapolis, where I caught the show. -Matthew A. Everett, TC Daily Planet

One of the pleasures of reviewing theater in the Twin Cities is discovering another brave, small theater company tackling a challenging play and nailing it. The company is Nightpath Theatre, the play is Old Times, a modern classic by Nobel Laureate Harold Pinter, and the place is the stripped down Loring Alley Theater, a space that compels an audience to relate to the revelations on the stage in an immediate way.