Sophie Kerman

Sophie Kerman is a high school French teacher in St. Paul with graduate work in theater and performance studies. She managed and wrote for Aisle Say Twin Cities from 2011-2014, when she started writing for MinnesotaPlaylist. She also plays chamber music with the Esperanza Ensemble.

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  • What you learn in high school

    Editorial

    As a high school French teacher, I spend most of my days thinking about how to connect with teenagers, not...

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  • Dracula! Singing and dancing

    Review

    I know I’m usually the one trying to unpack the social implications of theater and trying to figure out why...

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  • 50 years on

    Review

    Director Talvin Wilks kicked off Penumbra Theatre’s evening of theater by mentioning Penumbra’s role as a “community forum.” It was...

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  • Welcome to the new era

    Review

    Two Gentlemen of Verona is Shakespeare’s buddy comedy, his warm-up act, or to put it even more plainly, just not...

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  • Must your criticism be so male?

    Editorial

    There’s a rift in the theater community, and anyone who reads reviews can see it. If you want an opinion...

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  • What have we learned?

    Review

    Joseph Haj’s production of Pericles at the Guthrie clearly needs very little introduction. As the first example of Haj’s theatrical...

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  • Out There on a Cloud

    Review

    When Yasser Mroué was seventeen years old, on the day his communist grandfather Hussein was assassinated, he was shot in...

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  • A Queen of Mean

    Review

    There is a popular genre of theater out there that I personally struggle with, but it’s often a hard one...

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  • Sunshine in 2016

    Review

    The 90’s were a good decade for sex workers in pop culture. Pretty Woman came out in 1990, followed by...

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