Jul. 11—BEMIDJI — When director Trevor Belt was assembling the cast for the Paul Bunyan Playhouse production of "Greater Tuna," he recruited two of the funniest men he could think of. Bob Wearing and ...

Director Linda Mendoza has more than three decades years of production experience across scripted and specials content, and ironically it was HBO’s “Greater Tuna,” which she worked on in 1984, that ...

Written by Jaston Williams, Joe Sears and Ed Howard, Greater Tuna is an affectionate satire about small-town Southern life. In 1984, it aired on the HBO Comedy Playhouse, opening with Williams pouring ...

But those eccentrics can be pretty funny, as the cast of Greater Tuna, now at the Gretna Theatre, proved. That cast comprises two actors, Rick Voight and Dan Olmstead, who play a wide variety of ...

I ask for a reason: Soon, the Think Texas column and newsletter will celebrate its fifth anniversary. That translates into some 250 stories about the state's people, places, history and culture. Today ...

Seeing Greater Tuna performed by two actors other than Joe Sears and Jaston Williams is like going to a concert knowing it’s a cover band. Even with reasonable facsimiles on the stage, you’re a little ...