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.
Sophie Kerman
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Where illusion meets truth
ReviewAccording to The Illusion, Tony Kushner’s adaptation of Pierre Corneille’s L’Illusion comique, humanity is the victim of two...
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Boxing with yourself
ReviewJoe Dowling does a brave thing by choosing Juno and the Paycock to close out his twenty-year tenure as the...
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To see the world as newts
ReviewWar With the Newts is an odd little adventure, and odd little adventures happen to be a specialty of the...
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Next to inaccurate
ReviewAs a critic, I am in a terrible bind: the Yellow Tree Theatre has just staged a beautiful production of...
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Down in the valley
ReviewThe name of the play – Pussy Valley – could evoke a fertile land of liberation, where women are free...
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Transforming the mundane into the amazing
ReviewIt isn’t news that there are a lot of decisions that go into staging a piece of theater. Critics love...
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This is your candidate
ReviewIf you don’t tend to keep up with the classical music scene, opera seems like a world apart from theater...
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Behind every good man
ReviewWe’ve all heard the adage, “behind every great man, there stands a great woman”. Well, Bertolt Brecht heavily relied on...read the story -
What devil is this?
ReviewDark & Stormy Productions has just conjured up something mysterious. I don’t know who they sold their souls to, but...read the story