News & Notes

  • Sunshine in 2016

    Review

    The 90’s were a good decade for sex workers in pop culture. Pretty Woman came out in 1990, followed by...

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  • Well, that happened: 2015 in review

    Editorial

    What's better than 10?

    Here we are again, staring down the barrel of another new year. Have you made your...

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  • Picture this 2

    Review

    Editor's Note: Illustrator Becca Hart sketches and paints her responses to every show she sees. We've asked her to share...

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  • 10 Gifts for theater people

    Editorial

    What can you get the theater people in your life for the holidays?

    Or, actors and designers, what can you...

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  • High kicks in suburban strip malls

    Editorial

    In the past couple of decades, suburban Minnesota has seen a serious landscape shift. Most of the area’s strip malls...

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  • 2016: Another year of Shakespeare

    Editorial

    Your most Minnesotan update

    This week is mostly about Shakespeare, which is weird, because, at this point in my life...

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  • What rhymes with impeccable?

    Review

    Before heading to Red Eye to see Walking Shadow Theatre Company’s A Midwinter Night’s Revel, I expressed some concern to...

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  • No more bad guys

    Review

    You know you have a thriving theater community when you can see a play about Jesus performed in a church...

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  • Offense: The gift that keeps on giving

    Editorial

    Editor's Note: This essay was originally published in The Rake Magazine, December, 2006. In honor of the first day...

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