Three plays at Mixed Blood Theatre address gender, heritage, super heroes and finding your place in the world.

Minnesota Dance Theater concocts a witches’ brew of styles to kick off their season at the Cowles Center.

Adam Carolla is the same former carpenter that landed the miracle radio gig “Loveline” almost 20 years ago: snide, clever and nasally.

Derek Mears makes a living playing monsters and villains, all thanks to his love of comedy.

Peter Rothstein and Dan Chouinard come together to musicalize Ellis Island.

Scotty Reynolds and Taous Khazem lead Interact Center’s third Uniquinox project, combining dance parties, visual art and theater in a quest for community.

Daniel Polnau threatens to reinvent death itself in his revival of “Strombolli’s Medicine Show.”

Sun Mee Chomet revisits “How to Be a Korean Woman” at the Guthrie Theater, sharing her story of adoption and how to grapple with identity.

She’s appeared all over — an Emmy Award winner, biting comic voice and frustrated mother of two. Ladies and gentleman, here’s Judy Gold.

Joel Sass returns to the Park Square Theater to direct David Lindsay-Abaire’s comedy of class, “Good People.”