Arts & Culture
An Indie Film Takes Flight: Death To Prom
At a time in our history when high school pressures to conform and fit in have reached tragic consequences, a new Indie film, Death to Prom, makes every effort to show teenagers who are smart [...]
Addams Family Values And What’s Normal? Revamped Broadway Musical Casts A New Spell in National Tour
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 [...]
Spotlight: Are You Now Or Have You Ever Been…, Faith: A Dance for Life, The Golden Ass, Steampunk Delusions, Time Stands Still
Time Stands Still Through May 20 Guthrie Proscenium Theater, 818 So. 2nd St., Mpls. (612) 377-2224 www.guthrietheater.org (1) Re-assess and then re-navigate your life at midlife or stay on the same course? (2) How can [...]
Beloved San Francisco Drag Quartet Plays the New Century
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 [...]
Mango Street Looks at Youth and Identity
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. [...]
Compassion and Complexity in Christina Ham’s Cautionary New Crash Test Play
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 [...]
Spotlight 441: Julius Caesar, Learn to Be Latina, Analyzing the Bully and More
Learn to Be Latina Through May 13 Mixed Blood Theatre, 1501 So. 4th St., Mpls. (612) 338-6131 www.mixedbloodtheatre.com Categorical ‘one size fits’ all definitions for identity can often be counted as serious flaws not only in general [...]
Arts Feature: Que(e)ries at Patrick’s Cabaret Celebrates The Gay Male Sensibility
Just what is a gay sensibility? Should those who suppress their orientation even count? But what about those in times or places where it could not be shown unless on pain of death, exile, or incarceration? [...]
What to Expect Out of the Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival this Year
It’s the time of year when St. Anthony Main hosts the Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival. The three-week event runs through May 3 and features about 200 independent feature-length films and around 80 short [...]
