Guttural grunts, low singing, and enthusiastic spoken word greeted attendees at the William and Nadine McGuire Theater last weekend while they walked on stage around an ingeniously layered set. As they did so, activist and spoken word artist Marc Bamuthi Joseph and his fellow cast members began to weave their story of

“I’m not here as the college-educated white girl who saved hip-hop,” Doomtree MC and poet Dessa said in opening her recent presentation at the Nobel Peace Prize Forum, “Ethics and Hip-Hop. “I learned all of this from the practitioners already doing it.” She need not be so modest. The only

What would you do if your brother was a ruthless killer who not only deceived you about your One True Love, but tried to kill him and marry you off to someone you hated? And what if said brother was also your only living family member? It’s a brutally feudal

According to common myth, pirates are ruthless, evil, greedy, uncompromising souls. My piratic knowledge, like many, expanded little beyond Johnny Depp’s turn as Captain Jack Sparrow. So I expected a childish display upholding this myth at the Science Museum’s new special exhibition, Real Pirates: The Untold Story of the Whydah from Slave Ship

You probably remember the 2004 phenomenon that was Green Day’sAmerican Idiot. Exploding from popular music charts to the Grammys, the album became not only the rock opera of a generation, but also its protest album. Replete with rich storylines and characters, it was a natural choice for theatrical adaptation. Which

“I want to start this performance with a small exercise. Please raise your hands when you think a full minute has passed – and no cheating on watches or cell phones.” So began Story/Time, the latest performance from Bill Jones at the Walker Art Center. There is no imposed plot in

When excellent theatrical shows run for a long time, it can be easy to forget that they’re still around. Take Phantom of the Opera, which is currently in its 25th consecutive season in New York City and recently celebrated an unprecedented ten thousandth performance. While the Chanhassen Dinner Theater’s production

In the world of Twin Cities drama, no one does guerilla theater better than Ten Thousand Things Theater Company. Performing in prisons, church basements, book shops and more, TTT delivers low cost (or free, if you’re quick enough to reserve tickets at select performances) and high quality theater to locations all

In the dark of night, a moonlit woman reaches out to grab a ringing phone and is caught around the neck with a knotted, silken scarf. A struggle ensues while she is pushed over a desk, gasping for breath in a struggle to stay alive. Miraculously, she finds a pair

Image credit: Photo by Carol Rosegg/Guthrie Theater “It’s a terrible thing to know what you’re capable of and to never see yourself get there,” Judy Garland said in 1969. A few months later, at just 47-years-old, she died of an overdose at her London home. If anything captures the essence