Arts & Culture
Rock Yoga Puppet Opera To De-Stress Your Life
Rainbow Families and their allies of all ages can certainly benefit from and enjoy a creative way to let go of stress. Just hop on board and the Monkey Mind Pirates of Z Puppets Rosenschoz [...]
American Idiot at the Orpheum: How Punk Actually Took Broadway By Storm
It’s no big deal anymore to think of a pop or rock musical becoming a Broadway hit. But punk? Well that’s just what happened with the sensationally successful 2004 Grammy-winning Green Day album, sometimes referred to as a [...]
Diana: A Celebration
From the moment of arrival at the Queen of Hearts benefit gala thrown by the Woman’s Club of Minneapolis in tandem with Diana: A Celebration, it was easy to tell that it was an event worthy [...]
Spotlight 436: My Mother’s Lesbian Jewish Wiccan Wedding and More
My Mother’s Lesbian Jewish Wiccan Wedding Feb. 18 – Mar. 11 Hillcrest Center, 1978 Ford Pkwy, St. Paul (651) 647- 4315 www.mnjewishtheatre.org You know we’ve come a long way baby when acclaimed, sympathetic, gay-themed stage work is generated by straight folks [...]
Teenage Gay Love Becomes A Beautiful Thing
To an American ear, Thamesmead may sound like some hoity toity affair for posh Londoners. But in Jonathan Harvey’s play Beautiful Thing it’s a depressed housing project where two teenaged boys struggle with sexual identity and tune into the music [...]
Hierarchical Relationships Where Men Dominate Women are Portrayed in Two Local Historical Productions
On two local stages hierarchical structures of the men’s subjugation of women are addressed with varying degrees of success. Torch Theater’s intelligent interpretation of Dangerous Liasons by Christopher Hampton, adapted from Pierre Choderlos de Lachos’s epistolary 1782 novel, [...]
Spotlight: Lion King, Ragtime, The Naked I: Wide Open and More
The Lion King Through Feb. 12 Orpheum Theatre, 910 Hennepin Av., Mpls. (800) 859-7469 www.hennepintheatretrust.org Julie Taymor’s direction of The Lion King (which actually started at the Orpheum) is rightly considered to be singular and legendary. But she is [...]
Arts Interview: Tracie Bennett, the Guthrie’s Judy Garland
Tracie Bennett Talks About the Exploitation of a Child Star Whose Legacy is Gay Legend “There wasn’t a thing that gal couldn’t do – except take care of herself.” – Bing Crosby Judy Garland (1922-69) [...]
Jack Edwards: A Towering Figure in Costume Design
In Twin Cities theater history, Jack Edwards could be called the “Dean of Costume Design” and a major figure in American regional theater history. Before he began his 18 year tenure as the Guthrie Theater’s [...]
Spotlight: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Hetero, Independence and More
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Through Feb. 26 Guthrie Theater, 818 So. 2nd St., Mpls. (612) 377-2224 www.guthrietheater.org The 1955 Pulitzer Prize-winner is as forthright in its gay themes as just about anything Tennessee [...]
