History in the making by Seattle Storyteller Bret Fetzer

In 1974, Garrison Keillor and Minnesota Public radio debuted A Prairie Home Companion, in an auditorium at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota with only 12 people in the audience…the rest is history. On Tuesday, Feb 4, Annex Theatre and Bret Fetzer, opened Story & Song, a storytelling program; in 10 or 15 year we will probably be saying the same thing about him.

For $35 a ticket one does not expect Bayreuth, but one does expect to be able to see the singers and the set

The rarely performed, The Rape of Lucretia by Benjamin Britten, is definitely for opera addicts; that is to say, for people so in love with operatic music that they will sit through any opera, even if the libretto is a dud, and even if, as was the case with the Vespertine Opera’s production at St. Mark’s Cathedral, the audience can not even see the singers on the stage.

Serious Dose of Fun

Windfall productions produced two one-act plays by two of the “Greats” of the post World War II generation: Elaine May and Arthur Miller. Although Arthur Miller is more famous, as an American writer of international statute, Elaine May is perhaps more endearing to baby-boomers.