News & Notes

  • Context and Scarcity

    Editorial

    Editor's note: this is the first in a series of articles written by performing arts individuals who have moved from...

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  • More brevity, less wit

    Review

    I’m not sure when I should stop saying “I’m new to the Twin Cities” but I had heard tell of...

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  • The Other Barrymores

    Editorial

    At one time or another you’ve listed which ten people from history you’d spend time with at a dinner party...

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  • A Wealth of Weirdness with Katie Bender

    Interview

    Playwright Katie Bender loves research. While working on a play about Houdini’s last performance, she found a postcard in the...

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  • The Power of Two

    Review

    Hero Now Theatre’s new production of The Turn of the Screw comes bundled with a lot of expectations. Not only...

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  • Q-Stage premieres four new stories

    Editorial

    20% Theatre Company’s 4th annual Q-Stage: New Works Series presents new performing arts pieces by local queer artists. The first...

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  • Forward then back

    Editorial

    The system is broken, and life after prison can be just as bleak for ex-inmates as it was inside. Nimbus’s...

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  • Sweet, comfortable home

    Editorial

    Yes, it’s true, almost all of us immigrated here, at one point. The descendants of many a German or Scandinavian...

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