It was a story about a father in the Bronx trying to raise his kid right while a mob boss attempted to lure the youngster to the seedier side of life—the movie was a hit, and all of a sudden small-time actor Chazz Palminteri was a star. But the critically acclaimed film starring himself and Robert De Niro actually started as a one-man show created by Palminteri back in the early ’90s. The Academy Award-nominated actor revived the stage version—in which he plays 18 characters—for Broadway a few years ago, and is now taking it on a national tour. It’s at The State through the rest of the weekend. June 2–June 7, State Theatre, Minneapolis, hennepintheatredistrict.org.
