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.
As a high school French teacher, I spend most of my days thinking about how to connect with teenagers, not...
I know I’m usually the one trying to unpack the social implications of theater and trying to figure out why...
Director Talvin Wilks kicked off Penumbra Theatre’s evening of theater by mentioning Penumbra’s role as a “community forum.” It was...
Two Gentlemen of Verona is Shakespeare’s buddy comedy, his warm-up act, or to put it even more plainly, just not...
There’s a rift in the theater community, and anyone who reads reviews can see it. If you want an opinion...
Joseph Haj’s production of Pericles at the Guthrie clearly needs very little introduction. As the first example of Haj’s theatrical...
When Yasser Mroué was seventeen years old, on the day his communist grandfather Hussein was assassinated, he was shot in...
There is a popular genre of theater out there that I personally struggle with, but it’s often a hard one...
The 90’s were a good decade for sex workers in pop culture. Pretty Woman came out in 1990, followed by...
