Arts & Culture
Divine, Trailblazer in the Conservative Reagan-Bush Era / A New Documentary Makes Its MN Premiere At Out Twin Cities Film Fest
Interview with Documentarian Jeffrey Schwarz Assimilationists beware. Jeffrey Schwarz’s acclaimed documentary celebrates and illuminates the life of drag queen legend, Divine, who died in 1988 at age 42. During the very conservative Reagan era when anything queer [...]
Boatner Trilogy Breaks New Ground in Trans Drama
E.B. Boatner’s grouping of three one act plays titled Changes in Time is a leap forward in GLBT drama and transgender drama, in particular. 20% Theatre Company’s magnetic world premiere directed by Claire Avitabile at [...]
Guthrie’s ‘An Iliad’: A Beautifully Acted Lament on the Devastation of War
Homer’s ancient Greek epic is performed as it would have been ages and ages ago – by a storyteller. At the Guthrie, Stephen Yoakam takes on that role and relates with staggering forlornness the human [...]
Wade Vaughn Astounds in Unique Solo Drama by GLAAD Award-Winning Playwright Daniel MacIvor
Playwright Daniel MacIvor’s Cul-de-Sac boldly swings out against the white picket fence delusions and rationalizations of the white middle class in a way unlike anything you’ve probably ever seen before. In a magnificent solo performance, [...]
An Interview with David W. Cook: Artist, Flower Bomber, Inspiration
A bright flower suddenly appeared on my Facebook wall. I’d been virtually flower bombed. A new friend with David Cook, I’d only heard that he’s an artist who has taken to flower bombing the Twin [...]
OUT Twin Cities Film Festival: ‘The Main’ Tells Bar’s Colorful Three-Decade Saga
One of the highlights of this year’s OUT Twin Cities Film Festival is The Main, a Minnesota-made 72-minute documentary by director Julie Casper Roth. Up for the $400 best feature award, it screens June 2, [...]
OUT Twin Cities Film Festival: ‘No Look Pass’ Unique Documentary On Lesbian Identity, Women’s Basketball, and Immigrant Experience
No Look Pass is an absorbing new documentary about Emily Tay. It shows the intersection of her traditionalist Burmese parents, her time on Harvard’s women’s basketball team and on a professional German team, women she [...]
Arts Spotlight: 469
I Love To Eat: A Love Story With Food Through May 18 Illusion Theater, 528 Hennepin Av., Mpls. (612) 339-4944 www.illusiontheater.org Garry Geiken’s solo portrayal of legendary chef, James Beard, is a gentle low-key revelation [...]
Joseph & The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
When you sign on to sit through the third Chanhassen Dinner Theatre production of “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” for the third time in six seasons, you sort of grit your teeth and wonder [...]
OUT Twin Cities Film Festival: Teddy-Winning* Documentary at OUT TC Film Fest is a Harrowing View of Homophobia in Today’s Uganda
Call Me Kuchu is perhaps the most harrowing documentary ever made about GLBT experience. Filmmakers Malika Zouhall-Worrall and Katherine Fairfax Wright delve right into the homophobic hysteria that has swept Uganda in recent years in [...]
