News & Notes

  • Everyday we wear gingham

    Review

    Set in 1986 at a girls school in Ghana, School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play showcases The Jungle...

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  • With My Cats as an Audience

    Interview

    Welcome to Ask an Admin, a series in which we talk with theatre administrators and theatre-makers working in Minnesota to...

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  • Skipping Steps Is Skipping Experiences

    Interview

    Welcome to Ask an Admin, a series in which we talk with theatre administrators and theatre-makers working in Minnesota to...

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  • The Public’s Liaison to Escape

    Interview

    Welcome to Ask an Admin, a series in which we talk with theatre administrators and theatre-makers working in Minnesota to...

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  • Hepburn and Tracy

    Editorial

    As I’ve written in the past, some of the most important acting couples of the 20thCentury were Alfred Lunt and...

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  • How It's Made | Opera

    Interview

    Do you remember the 1984 film Amadeus? Particularly the scene in which the genius protagonist is bedridden and needs...

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  • The Best Part of My Job Is Doing My Job

    Interview

    Welcome to Ask an Admin, a series in which we talk with theatre administrators and theatre-makers working in Minnesota to...

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  • Indignity and Grace

    Review

    Penumbra’s production of “benevolence” (lowercase “b” intended) continues Ifa Bayeza’s trilogy about the murder of Emmett Till.  The first, “The Ballad...

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  • Of, by, and for the community.

    Editorial

    The Frogtown and Rondo neighborhoods of Saint Paul are filled with performance artists, but very few performing venues. The Victoria...

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