Media — What They’re Saying About Our Shows

Qaddafi’s Cook

“Intense and charming, an immersive experience that beautifully connects food, passion, and power...”
Theatre is Easy, New York City

“Do not miss this piece of powerful theatre.” 
“Could there be a more sobering reminder of our collective vulnerability to the lure of authoritarian rule?”
San Diego Reader

“Portrayal of passion and power intersecting at a particular point in time. Highly recommended.”
Fringe Festival KC Review

You Can’t Get to Heaven Through the USA

“A deeply heartfelt, affecting play and vivid picture of immigrant life.”
St. Paul Dispatch

“An urgency about remembering is at the heart of the play… a clear-eyed look at the issues of intolerance and the dream of a melting pot.”
West Side Voice

“It’s a good feeling to see ordinary people portrayed with great dignity and pride…and to join in quiet respect of other people’s values.”
Grand Rapids Herald

Nina, Madam to a Saintly City

“Diverting show, laced with sin... a bittersweet memento…”
Twin Cities Reader 

“Nina’s bordello can still draw a crowd!”
St. Paul Dispatch

“The legend lives on in Belville’s play”
St. Paul Pioneer Press

The Man Who Bought Minneapolis

“History, gleaned from mounds of paper and distilled into language and gesture, comes together onstage to define the complex, paradoxical character of Jim Hill.”
City Pages

“Well-written and smartly crafted.”
Minneapolis Star-Tribune

“Most absorbing biographical sketch… first big hit for History Theatre…remains one of the company’s strongest efforts.” St. Paul Pioneer Press

Scott and Zelda, The Beautiful Fools

“The play balances both the quotidian and momentous...cautious not to rewrite history or impose an ahistorical, sensationalist lens...This play embraces the scholar, casual appreciator and theatergoer. In essence, this is the story that Fitzgerald told himself; it provides a glimpse into his mind and heart… The main musicality of the production was the script itself. The cadence of the language flowed like chorus and verse…Belville expertly captured this quality of Scott’s writing, without appropriating it.  
Review from International F. Scott Fitzgerald Society Newsletter

“The best locally written play to bow in the Twin Cities in some time.”
Twin Cities Drama Critics Circle

“Critic’s Choice. An impressive work. Good enough to find stages far from Minneapolis and St. Paul.”
Minneapolis Star Tribune