Over the next couple of years, Cummings stepped away from the stage to pursue a booming acting career that included her own sitcom, Whitney (which was canceled after two seasons), as well as co-creating the wildly popular 2 Broke Girls. After that, s...
Natalie Nowytski, Megan Fischer, and Jennifer Grimm. Simplicity can be its own reward. Using no more than music and words drawn from the era, Theatre Latte Da's Steerage Song builds a full vision of the European immigrant experience to the Uni...
It's October 1, which means that Halloween season is officially on. Haunted houses are starting up, Zombie Pub Crawl tickets are selling fast, and get-together invites will be showing up in your Facebook inbox in bulk at any moment. Ironically, much ...
With 176 shows at 15 locations, the Minnesota Fringe Festival is impossible to cover completely in one go. At most, a dedicated theatergoer can take in 56 of the shows over the 11 days of the festival. Here are thoughts on a handful of shows seen ov...
Last year, the inaugural Twin Cities Horror Festival entertained folks with two weekends filled with theater, dance, concerts, storytelling, recycled Halloween costumes, and more at the spooky (and possibly haunted) Southern Theater. This year, the h...
Work by Kenneth Steinbach Take, for instance, a series of works that are made from discarded ivory piano keys. Grouped together and then scrimshawed, a process that involves engraving the surface of the ivory with a stylus and then rubbing pigm...
The Balance Goddess performs in Amaluna. Sensory overload has always been the name of the game at Cirque du Soleil, and that comes early and often in Amaluna, the new piece playing over the next three weeks at the company's signature tent at the ...
Folks in the Twin Cities are always up to something exciting. Here are some of Dressing Room's top stories from this week: -- Tatiana Craine gave the rundown on trends she spotted at ENVISION: Artopia. -- Sheila Regan checked out the latest exhibit...
This week, as part of the fall 2013 edition of Minneapolis-St. Paul Fashion Week, MNfashion hosted another installment of the Shows, a runway event featuring collections from incredible designers over two nights. This season, eight local designers fl...
Ansa Akyea and H. Adam Harris. For the past month, the cast of Pillsbury House Theatre's the road weeps, the well runs dry have delved into the complex and compelling world built by playwright Marcus Gardley. Gardley's play explores the hist...
This weekend Oktoberfest rages on with a series of free parties. There's also a bunch of open studio hops, happy hours, bike rides, and other fun and free things to do. Come take a look at our list and plan your weekend. Photo courtesy of...
Meanwhile, NPR's Ask Me Another is a raucous show featuring pub trivia, live music, and talk show-style chats with interesting folks. The program will be in town tonight for a live taping in front of a studio audience. Kernan will be making an appear...
This Saturday, five local designers will show collections at Full Fashion Panic as part of the Schoolgirls and Mobilesuits academic conference and Minneapolis-St. Paul FashionWeek. For the evening, each designer has created pieces inspired by ani...
"Um. So. Shall I start? Okay. Um. So, let's see. Okay." That's the first line of Nature Theater of Oklahoma's epic production Life and Times, the first episode of which performs at the Walker Art Center's McGuire Theater this weekend, starting tonigh...
Joanna Harmon as Charlotte. Greg Banks has found a home at the Children's Theatre Company. The English director has crafted a string of some of the best work at the venerable institution over the past few years. His winning streak continues ...
The cast of Ordinary Days.
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Ed Huyck
on September 25, 2013 @ 11:50 am
SPANK! The Fifty Shades Parody opened last night, and runs through this Saturday. Having had no previous knowledge of the Fifty Shades novels, except that they're Twilight fan fiction-turned-lady porn, I had no real expectation for what the three-per...
An exhibit featuring the work of two exciting young talents, Kate Casanova and Areca Roe, opened last weekend at Gallery 122 at Hang-It. "Terra Nova" gives a taste of what each artist, both graduates of the University of Minnesota MFA program, have b...
you have to be 18 or older, the safe word you're given, or the dress code you must adhere to before wandering down into darkness, the Soap Factory's Haunted Basement has had the reputation as the scariest haunted house in town for years. Each season...
Long the staple of artists taking a breather and record labels looking for a fresh way to cash in on "Hotel California," the greatest-hits package has fallen on tough times. The rise of online purchases means that any fan can compile, say, One Direc...
As I was exiting the performance space at Open Book last Thursday, I found myself dodging a discarded costume. It was the intermission of A Midsummer Night's Dream, and upon… More >>
Displaced Hindu Gods — three new, interconnected works by a single playwright presented in repertory — is an incredibly ambitious undertaking for a theater. It also poses quite a challenge… More >>
Marcus Gardley's The Road Weeps, The Well Runs Dry unfurls with the intense sweep of a Shakespearean tragedy but is steeped in the distinct history of the United States. The… More >>