While wandering the Stone Arch Bridge Festival, photographer Scott Pakudaitus captured a growing audience as they stopped to watch a performer on stilts.
The impulse to create theater from our lives—to wear costumes, tell stories, and find meaning in them—is not defined by the location of a show. This month, we search outside the conventional theater for some of the most popular theater.
By Sheila Regan
Posted Thursday, March 4
What do three path-breaking troupes like Body Cartography Project, Skewed Visions, and Off Leash Area think they're doing?
By Quinton Skinner
Posted Monday, March 1
Tea Party Rallies are theater. So is a tragic evening at a Timberwolves game. But theater critic Quinton Skinner begins this month's column with cavemen.
By Quinton Skinner
Posted Monday, March 8
When a theater critic visits a church service at Jefferson Community School, what's the verdict?
By Quinton Skinner
Posted Thursday, March 11
Courtroom procedure uses the trappings of theater to make messy reality manageable.
See it this week at The Gremlin Theatre in St. Paul. Presented by Theatre Pro Rata.

Alan M. Berks wrote and directed Music Lovers playing at Playwrights' Center this month.
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jgulden: Thank you Michael, Tamara and Steven for stepping up to the plate and keeping @ChanhassenDT alive and hundreds of MN actors employed! #mnpl
Commonweal: RT @sailert: The latest from the apprentice blog. Today was a cue to cue rehearsal for Death and the Ploughman: http://tinyurl.com/ye7hd49 #mnpl
sailert: The latest from the apprentice blog. Today was a cue to cue rehearsal for Death and the Ploughman: http://tinyurl.com/ye7hd49 #mnpl