News & Notes

  • Perfect Vulnerability

    Editorial

    What do you find more compelling; perfection or vulnerability? Pardon the existential nature of my introduction (that’s kind of how...

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  • Charming and Chill

    Review

    There is nothing revolutionary about the plot of Be More Chill. Jeremy, our lead, follows the classic “nerd who wants...

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  • Thoughts on Authentic Casting

    Editorial

    If it is the craft that allows me to transform into any character, then I should be honored for...

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  • Who amongst us would say “no”?

    Review

    Frank Theatre is closing its 30thAnniversary season with a legendary piece: Marc Blitzstein’s The Cradle Will Rock, which was produced...

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  • The People Belong to No One

    Review

    Set against the backdrop of Argentina in the 1940s and 1950s, this salacious and rather unforgiving look at national hero...

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  • Envy Is a Poison

    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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  • Small stage, big laughs

    Review

    The name Mozart, like Shakespeare, bears a certain weight. It has become synonymous with ‘perfection’ and elicits an expectation from...

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  • pa·nache

    Review

    pa·nache

    /pəˈnaSH,pəˈnäSH/

    1. an ornamental tuft or plume (as of feathers) especially on a helmet

    -or-

    1. The confidence, elegance, and style...

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  • Swinging for the fences

    Review

    In my earliest memory of baseball I’m probably four years old. At dusk on a summertime farm in Iowa I remember...

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