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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  • Chekhov that works

    Review
    Last week was a tough one at Playlist. While I struggled hard with a play that felt maddeningly disconnected to...
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  • REVIEW: Whose youth is it?

    Review
    I have been thinking a lot about white people problems over the last couple of weeks. The recent verdicts (or...
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  • REVIEW: Boogie with the Beavers

    Review
    As someone who loves theater, I hate December (and I hate it even more because in the world of theater...
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  • REVIEW: The value in what is hard

    Review
    Big ideas don’t come easily. They take work to create, work to understand, and even more work to defend. Big...
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  • REVIEW: The wrong verdict

    Review
    There have been 318 post-conviction DNA exonerations in the United States—18 of which from death row— according to the Innocence...
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  • Best of 2013-2014: The Lower Depths

    Editorial
    Editor's Note: For the last four years, we've honored the new theater season with a look back at what made...
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