Ira Brooker is a writer and editor residing in Saint Paul's scenic Midway neighborhood. He holds down a corporate job by day and does freelance and creative work at night. He is a former editor of Minnesota Playlist and has been published in a number of venues both local and national, several of which you may have even heard of. He occasionally prattles on about pop culture at A Talent For Idleness and maintains an archive at irabrooker.com.
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Day 5 -- Fringe Recap
EditorialSpace is the Place
One of the underrated aspects of the Fringe Festival is that it’s one of the few...
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Holes under the sea
ReviewThe Children’s Theatre Company’s new production of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea is a unique creation, a physically immersive, visually...
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A mild form of anarchy
ReviewOne of the recurring themes of All the Lights On, Michelle Hensley’s excellent history of her Ten Thousand Things...
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When the western meets the divine feminine
ReviewDespite its title, Theatre Forever’s Good Job Horses isn’t a Western, or at least not exactly. It’s more of a...
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What do you know?
ReviewThere’s a moment early on in For the Loyal that made me fear I was about to watch a promising...read the story -
Theater for one
ReviewWhile veteran playwright and theater instructor John Olive’s Tell Me a Story in the Dark isn’t explicitly a manual for...read the story -
The Pessimistic Acrobat
ReviewEven though it’s been confirmed by reliable sources ranging from Fred Armisen to Buzzfeed to whatever RealtyTrac is, convincing outlanders...read the story -
Review: All the Lights On
ReviewPerhaps the most daunting of the many recurring obstacles faced by Ten Thousand Things theater company in founder Michelle Hensley’s...read the story -
This nothing is a whole lot of something
ReviewA malnourished, indigent man trapped in a room with no exit, trying to navigate a Mobius maze of mysterious portals...read the story