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Performing artist AnnaMaria Koutsostamatis rehearses for the street festival and mask pageant, Uniquinox, on Tuesday afternoon at North Loop Playground in Minneapolis. Interact Center is known for its inclusivity for artists of all types of backgrounds.

Interact Theater brings back Uniquinox festival

by Joe Kellen
Published September 19, 2013
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 leans towards the darker parts of sideshow antics in "Stromboli's Medicine Show."

Heart of the Beast brings back “Strombolli’s Medicine Show”

by Joe Kellen
Published September 19, 2013
Daniel Polnau threatens to reinvent death itself in his revival of “Strombolli’s Medicine Show.”
Sun Mee Chomet rehearses for "How to Be a Korean Woman," a one-woman show written by Chomet in front of the Dowling Studio Theater at the Guthrie Theater on Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2013.

How to be a storyteller

by Joe Kellen
Published September 19, 2013
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.
Hope Cervantes and Virginia S. Burke rehearse "Good People", on Friday, Sept. 6, 2013. The play is written by David Lindsay-Abaire and premieres at Park Square Theatre on September 13th.

David Lindsay-Abaire’s “Good People” to make regional premiere

by Joe Kellen
Published September 12, 2013
Joel Sass returns to the Park Square Theater to direct David Lindsay-Abaire’s comedy of class, “Good People.”

Rocky’s road

by Spencer Doar
Published September 12, 2013
After a tumultuous youth and 25 years on the comedy trail, Rocky LaPorte has seen it all, surviving dingy motels, a gunshot wound and odd times in Appalachia.

Kyle Loven brings “Moon Show 143” to Dowling Studio

by Joe Kellen
Published September 12, 2013
Seattle-based theatermaker Kyle Loven examines how Earth’s natural satellite connects us all in “Moon Show 143.”
Kevin Kling, writer of "Humanimal,"  during rehearsal at Open Eye Figure Theater on Monday evening.

“Humanimal”: Beyond Kevin Kling’s wildest dreams

by Joseph Kleinschmidt
Published August 7, 2013
Acclaimed local storyteller Kevin Kling returns to the Open Eye Theatre for a play about people, pets and untamed wilderness.
Actors Phillip Schramm, Brandon R. Caviness and Joel Thingvall in the play "Stuck in an Elevator with Patrick Stewart" featured in the Minnesota Fringe Festival.

Forever on the Fringe: comedies at the fest

by Joseph Kleinschmidt
Published July 31, 2013
Three shows from this year’s Fringe Festival prove that outlandish comedy’s alive and well among local thespians.

Andy Kaufman’s debut album

by Joseph Kleinschmidt
Published July 24, 2013

Drag City recently released the first and only album by Andy Kaufman this month. Entitled Andy and his Grandmother, the infamous “song-and-dance-man” recorded the album’s material on...

Rebecca Wilson and Joseph Pyfferoen rehearse a scene from Sweet Revenge!, a melodramatic play filled with silly dance numbers and quirky musical olios, on Friday, June 7, 2013, on the University of Minnesota's Centennial Showboat in St. Paul.

Don’t miss the boat

by Spencer Doar
Published June 12, 2013
The Minnesota Centennial Showboat’s 55th anniversary production is a tale of misguided love and betrayal at the dawn of the 20th Century.

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