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The War Within/All’s Well Through June 10 Southern Theater, 1420 Washington Av. S., Mpls. (612) 343-3390 www.ticketworks.comFor much of the 30 years of its duration, the Tony-winning Theatre de la Jeune Lune was on a par with [...]

Noah Bremer’s inspired direction of Capital Crimes: The St. Paul Gangster Musical makes for a raucously entertaining history lesson at St. Paul’s History Theatre. The legendary Ma Barker, played with sociopathic grit by Cathleen Fuller, [...]

Modesty about sex and physical attractiveness is no longer pressured into our culture to the vast degree it once was. Sixty years ago reserve about one’s own good looks beneath the clothing, if one even [...]

You may know The Addams Family musical from its popular Broadway run but the national tour has made major revisions that have reportedly improved the show significantly. In a highly unusual action, the original creative [...]

San Francisco is Ground Zero for queer culture and since the early ’90s the over the top ‘Dragapella Beauty Shop Quartet’, The Kinsey Sicks, have been Bay Area luminaries. The foursome who have appeared Off-Broadway [...]

Teatro del Pueblo and Pangea World Theater are co-presenting an earnest view of childhood with actors playing multiple characters in Amy Ludwig’s stage adaptation of Sandra Cisneros’s book, The House on Mango Street. Alejandra C. [...]

Playwright Christina Ham poses an ethical dilemma near the beginning of her cautionary new drama, Crash Test Dummies. Grace (Amanda Whisner), wife of protagonist, Cooper (Ryan Lindberg), has just fled from a hospital where she [...]