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Hot Funky Butt Jazz Defines True Inclusion

“Folks always tryin’ to kill what they can’t understand, for whatever reason”   Photo courtesy of Interact It’s rare, but sometimes something comes at me so fresh and so unexpectedly that it takes my breath away. I had the pleasure of just such an experience last weekend at Hot Funky

Reliving the Past with The Laramie Project

Here’s to hoping history stops repeating itself.   Photo by Shannon TL Kearns It’s always amazing to me how imperfectly progress on social issues is made. Causes will fight for decades on an issue with little to no improvement – or maybe even sustain severe setbacks – only to jolt

MUST SEE: Children’s Theatre Company’s I Come From Arizona

If I could take a billboard out to make the world a better place, it would say something like: stop underestimating children.   Photo by Dan Norman I think we have a tendency to think that just because kids are small sized humans and have limited vocabularies that somehow they’re

Is God Is is Literally Killer

CW: This show (and review) discusses violence, assault, sexual assault and abuse.   Photo by Rich Ryan Walking out of Mixed Blood Theatre last night, all I could say was HOT DAMN. For anyone living under a rock, yesterday Dr. Christine Blasely Ford testified in front of the Senate Judiciary

Some Thoughts on the Inaugural MN Theater Awards

Does an awards show even need actual awards?   Last night marked the first ever MN Theater Awards, aka The Little Show That Could that took over after the Ivey Awards folded abruptly last year. Many people in the #tctheater community were disappointed by the loss of an event to

Finding the Feeling in Frankenstein – Playing With Fire

It seems 2018 is the year of historic anniversaries.   Photo by Dan Norman First we had the 150th anniversary of Louisa May Alcott’s delightful Little Women. It’s the 50th anniversary of the ridiculously eventful 1968, which is featured in a star exhibit at the Minnesota History Center. Park Square

Little Women Packs a Big, Beautiful Punch

Adapting favorite childhood stories to a new medium can be tricky business.   Photo by Rich Ryan The unique mix of nostalgia and ownership that childhood characters breed can wreak all sorts of havoc on an adaptation’s profitability. For example: despite coming from an eternally beloved book series and boasting a

Theater Latte Da’s Once is Worth Re-Watching Again

Falling slowly sing your melody I’ll sing along   Photo by Dan Norman Meditation. Wellness. Intention. Thoughtfulness. There are so many Wellness Buzzwords floating around these days, and no wonder. In the cacophonous cultural din of modern day politics, a White House almost literally in flames, a well documented rising

9 Reasons Why I Still Care About Hamilton

Look around, look around, how lucky we are to be alive right now…   Photo by Joan Marcus I’m sure that, unless you live under the world’s heaviest, largest rock, you’ve heard of the theatrical juggernaut that is Hamilton by now. I’m also sure that you’ve heard Hamilton has finally

The Legend of Georgia McBride is a Summer Smash

I find that when it comes to art, it finds you when you need it most.   Photo by Dan Norman Take last week, when I truly had the week from hell. Between wedding planning, multiple family medical emergencies, and a busy work schedule, all of our plans got totally

The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotype is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. they make one story become the only story.

– chimamanda ngozi adichie

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