Best small theater company: Transatlantic Love Affair

April 15, 2016 at 8:18PM
Mary Stone (Isabel Nelson) and John Stone (Derek Lee Miller) Ninth Annual Lights Up! Series Transatlantic Love Affair's ASH LAND Conceived and directed by Diogo Lopes Music by Harper Zwicky January 31-February 22, 2014 (Preview January 30) Illusion Theater Cowles Center for Dance and the Performing Arts, 8th Floor 528 Hennepin Ave., Minneapolis Box office: 612-339-4944 or www.illusiontheater.org Tickets: $17-22 PHOTO CREDIT: Aaron Fenster
Isabel Nelson and Derek Lee Miller in Transatlantic Love Affair's "Ash Land." (The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Transatlantic is the perfect answer when folks wonder, "Do we need another small theater company in this town?" Isabel Nelson's troupe (it's more ensemble than any one person's vision) builds its theater from scratch and promises a strong flavor: storytelling with a shared sense of the outcome, and a physical style that is wholly the company's own. They don't produce a lot over the course of a year, but the work is always worth waiting for because it's an aesthetic we see only in a limited amount in the Twin Cities. transatlanticloveaffair.org

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