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Twin Cities playwright and critic William Randall Beard dies at 64 May 12, 2021 6:33am Text size Copy shortlink:
A passionate voice in Twin Cities performing arts has been silenced by the coronavirus pandemic.
William Randall Beard, a playwright and freelance critic who wrote about classical music, theater and opera for the Star Tribune, Pioneer Press and Mpls.St.Paul Magazine, among others, died April 17 at HCMC. He was 64.
A devout Lutheran, Beard had a battery of longstanding health issues, including lupus and congestive heart failure.
Just over a decade ago, he had a terrible fall at Orchestra Hall literally down several flights of stairs and tore tons of ligaments and required 19 leg operations, said playwright Daniel Pinkerton, Beard s 40-year friend and onetime roommate. He could never quite walk right again. So he couldn t get the kind of exercise he needed.
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5Q: Buyer & Cellar
“5Q” is an online-only column featuring five questions about stage productions in the Metro Area with a special focus on the GLBTQ community’s relationship to the production. Periodically, “5Q” will take the form of an interview with actors, directors, writers, etc. to shed some light on the production process.
Taking inspiration from Streisand’s coffee table book
My Passion for Design, playwright Jonathan Tolins playfully scrutinizes the zany implications of Streisand’s underground shopping center in this uproarious one-man show,
Buyer & Cellar. The show opens with a disclaimer: the only thing that is true about the show is that Streisand does indeed have a shopping mall in the basement of her Malibu home, complete with an immaculate curation of shops including an antique clothing store, a doll storeroom, and a sweets shop. Other than that, the show is a complete work of fiction.
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While awaiting the start of Twelve Blocks From Where I Live, which is kicking off a cabaret series that Theater Latté Da describes as stories and songs in the meantime, I pondered the word meantime. Latté Da intends these virtual shows to entertain us until it s safe to gather for live theater, but there s no getting around the fact that the past several months have sometimes felt like a very mean time. Twelve Blocks From Where I Live finds actor Regina Marie Williams shifting between the natural beauty she observed near her south Minneapolis home last summer and the ugly events that occurred the titular distance away on May 25, when George Floyd died at the hands of Minneapolis police. Throughout the half-hour program she also discusses the violence that occurred in response to the killing, but she seems inclined to focus on beauty: birds in flight, people feeding each other, peaceful protests.