Director and choreographer Martha Clarke envisions a pre-World War I Vienna, Austria, in a wash of beauty and eroticism. In her dance-theater production, "Vienna: Lusthaus (Revisited)," inspired by the...
Face it. Watching a one-man show inevitably tends to be a tad surreal. Unless the individual on stage is overwhelmingly enthralling, entertaining and endearing, you are basically stuck with a chaotic stand-up...
It seems natural that Theatre de la Jeune Lune, a company so devoted to physical theatrics, would incorporate aerialist performers in a production. The company's founders were trained in the circus arts...
The theater scene in the Twin Cities is constantly expanding, with new theater companies emerging at a rapid pace. At least once per week I get an e-mail or phone call from an artistic director, publicist...
Sure, you probably already have plans for your month away from the hectic drudgery that defines our lives as college students. I, for one, plan to spend oodles of time getting reacquainted with one of...
From the dramatic surprise entrance (which we will not ruin for you) to the final curtain call, Miss Richfield 1981's holiday extravaganza takes the audience virtually everywhere except the land where...
The Twin Cities' theater scene definitely has a future, and with any luck Nathan Keepers will stick around for it. The actor has made himself known for his adept physicality in multiple roles at Theatre...
Widely deemed to be ballet's greatest living choreographer, Yuri Grigorovich originally planned to stage his interpretation of "Swan Lake" for Moscow's Bolshoi Ballet in 1969. But the Soviet Minister of...
I don't want you to get mauled," she explains as she ushers me to be seated on a 1950s Arco-deco style black leather couch located safely away from the ensuing chaos. Colleen Felicia Van Epps, 21, a senior...
An adult man and a teenage girl share the stage. He is teaching her how to drive and she is listening attentively. Their exchange seems to become flirtatious, but that just does not seem right since he...