May my anger remain real and smaller than my love. It’s always good to support local art, and original art. I find that displacing myself from traditional performance pieces periodically helps me open my mind and get some new ideas about what is possible in theater and shake up my

It always takes a while for events to hit their stride, and this year the Ivey awards did. Although it’s been around for 12 years it’s never felt quite so engaging or well organized as it did on Monday night. It was my third time attending and I have to

Jane Austen fans should be very pleased…. Photo by Dan Norman. …With the latest offering from the Guthrie theater. In the tradition of the best Austen adaptations, from Emma Thompson’s Sense and Sensibility to Gwenyth Paltrow’s Emma to Clueless to Bridget Jones, the current staging of Sense and Sensibility retains

TKTBSU is a modern day romantic comedy with something for everyone I always find Mu Performing Arts’ shows so thoroughly original, highly engaging and really thoughtful. Most of Mu’s performances also tend to fall in my performance sweet spot of 90 minutes or less**. Their latest offering is a dark

How can I pray for my country when my hands are broken? Social movements and the arts have always seemed to stay closely intertwined, and things haven’t changed in the 21st century. It seems that the Black Lives Matter movement is inspiring all sorts of innovative programming in the arts

You won’t be able to stay in your seat during this infectious show Did you know that an alcoholically-inclined fur trapper founded St. Paul? No? Well it’s true. Long before St. Paul was the city of gangsters, long before it was even known as St. Paul, it was known as

Experience Native American Cultures at the Ordway Center Your Good Karma for the day is calling. This will be short because everything I have to say is much better said in the expose here by Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl, but: if you’re looking for the coolest thing you can do today, it’s funding The

This stunning performance perfectly depicts the heart of our race problems in America I’ve often heard people question why art matters. When we have small budgets for necessities such as paving roads or education or clean water, why should we make room to fund the arts as well? It’s always

The Gatsby Moment Have you ever looked up in awe of where you are? That was my experience last night at the Ivey Awards Preview show at Martin Patrick 3. Filled with good looking people, great tasting food, delicious drinks and an absolutely transcendent shopping experience, it couldn’t have been

“All you are ever told in this country about being [black] is that it is a terrible, terrible thing to be. Now, in order to survive this, you have to really dig down into yourself and re-create yourself, really, according to no image which yet exists in America. You have