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Theater

Actors Are the Opposite of People

by Amy Danielson
Published December 5, 2002

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...

Fall from Grace

by Niels Strandskov
Published December 5, 2002

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...

Everything You Can Imagine Is Real

by Amy Danielson
Published November 27, 2002

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...

Backseat Driver

by Monica LaBelle
Published November 21, 2002

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...

Spirits with Dirty Faces

by Nathan Hall
Published November 21, 2002

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...

Playing “Telephone” with Shakespeare

by Nathan Hall
Published November 14, 2002

Losing things in translation can be very funny sometimes. The transference of dialects often devolves the original author's meaning into one big game of "telephone," as anyone who has compared the Dead...

Viva Villa!

by Amy Danielson
Published November 14, 2002

The Mexican Revolution began in 1910 in the state of Chihuahua as peasants reacted to elevated food prices and exploitation by affluent landowners. Revolutionaries elected Pancho Villa as their First Commander,...

He Drives Me Crazy

by Monica LaBelle
Published November 7, 2002

Jevetta Steele must be a masochist. For the past two weekends, she has repeatedly enacted one of the most painful and personal parts of her life to an audience of hundreds. In a voice that's stronger than...

Trading places: What’s new with “Shrew”

by Steven Snyder
Published November 7, 2002

The Taming of the Shrew" is not generally considered one of Shakespeare's finest plays. Over the years, its humor between the sexes has been dampened by audiences who have tired of its blatant aggression...

Insane in the Membrane

by Nathan Hall
Published November 7, 2002

Odds are a crazy person is part of your life. I'm not talking somewhat moody or mildly bipolar, but barking-at-the-fire-hydrant-and-drooling-while-eating-raw-macaroni insane. Perhaps this person asks you...

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