Current Reviews

My Fair Lady

"Small-scaled and disarming, this staging offers a different set of pleasures, leavened with intelligent awareness while still finding the fun." Pioneer Press More...

"Here you'll find five of the area's best actors utlilizing some nifty staging effects and multi-multi-casting and having at this classic warhorse with formidable glee." howwastheshow.com More...

"A cast of five highly talented actors, under the spry direction of Lear deBessonet, turn Eliza Doolittle's transformation completely into her story..." MinnPost More...

Past Reviews

General

"The more unlikely the venue…the better - and the more raucous, the more rewarding for Ten Thousand Things." Matt Shaer, Christian Science Monitor More...

"Ten Thousand Things speaks to nontraditional audiences, and they speak back." American Theater More...

"Ten Thousand Things theater knows a thing or two about captive audiences" minnpost.com More...

Stones In His Pockets

"With director Michelle Hensley, these two actors carve out giddily distinctive work, using constant metamorphosis to elicit laughs, despair, vacuity, and a refreshing, enlivening pointlessness when things are steaming along. "

"Ten Thousand Things continues its recent hot streak with "Stones in His Pockets," Marie Jones' examination of lost and found hope in a depressed Irish village. In the hands of veteran performers Steve Epp and Jim Lichtscheidl, the bare stage comes alive with a bevy of quick-but-fully-realized characters."

Othello

"Directors Michelle Hensley and Sonja Parks have put together a gripping, muscular staging. Luverne Seifert's Iago swaggers with bluff confidence-a vulgar and oily user full of vengeful menace. As the Moor, Ansa Akyea imposes with his powerful physical carriage-regal and noble-and snappish emotions." Star Tribune More...

"Last year when I was writing an article on the history of Twin Cities theater, I interviewed a number of established local directors, actors, and writers. One of the questions I asked was, "What local theater company are you especially excited about?" The answer I heard more often than any other was Ten Thousand Things. Now I understand why." Twin Cities Daily Planet More...

Raskol

Raskol gives new life and light to Dostoevsky. The company has streamlined the tale, filled it with color and light, sprinkled it with music and melody and given a classic tale a tempo that is familiar and yet new." Pioneer Press

Ten Thousand Things' reimagining of that novel, Raskol, delivers music, humor, and wrenching depth...This production feels as alive, and relevant, as if it had been created from scratch..." City Pages More...

"...a masterful staging...a fast-moving and surprisingly comic swirl. The performances are uniformly terrific. Particular kudos must go to Michelle Hensley's deft and intelligent staging." howwastheshow.com More...

"True to form, Raskol is a taut, surprisingly funny script that cuts to the essence of Crime and Punishment." Jaime Kleiman, mnartists.org More...

"When Twin Cities actors put on a play for female prisoners, the inmates coud relate - this was an in-the-big-house staging of Crime and Punishment." Star Tribune More...

Endgame

"The resonance was achingly inescapable...Wordplay crackles, the pace is always insistent...” Star Tribune More...

"Ten Thousand Things puts on crucial, national-level theater, and this constricting mind-maze tempts mightily." City Pages More...

"...Bellamy uses his voice like a symphony - now tremulous, now percussive, now muted, now warm. Christiana Clark give Clov an intriguing blend of resignation and resolve..." Pioneer Press

Twelfth Night

"Ten Thousand Things upsets the natural order with a fun, innovative approach to Twelfth Night...Yet another reason why Ten Thousand Things' work with Shakespeare always deserves a studied look." Star Tribune More...

"Ten Thousand Things creates accessible, interesting, joyful Shakespeare in Twelfth Night...Director Michelle Hensley and her company embrace Shakespeare's language, coaxing out its knowing humor with splashes of color and simple, evocative images." Pioneer Press

"This Ten Thousand Things production of Twelfth Night, burrows into all the ambiguity and emerges with a trove of funny, moving treasures." City Pages More...

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