Sun Hee loves reading books and filling her teenage mind with knowledge, but her mother forces her to do chores instead. Living in Korea prior to World War II, she clashes with her mother and is conflicted...

The Brothers Grimm's collection of Germanic fairy tales, in its unadulterated form, is not exactly soothing bedtime fodder for the little crumb-crushers. Human existence in Grimm Land is generally erratic...

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...

Prostitution is of course both the oldest and one of the most dangerous professions. Hollywood, via unrealistic fairy tales such as 1990's "Pretty Woman," downplays the numerous risks involved to the point...

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...

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...

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...