Author: Andrew Newman

  • New Works 4 Weeks Festival

    Red Eye Theater’s New Works 4 Weeks Festival is well underway. After its Works-In-Progress performances last week, the festival heads into its Isolated Acts performances this weekend with Justin Jones’s Pinhead, a reaction to Bob Fosse’s All That Jazz. This new pseudo-auto-choreo-biography begins Friday, June 13 and runs through Sunday, June 15, with 8 p.m.…

  • The Gin Game

    Bain Boehlke and Wendy Lehr are onstage together again in the Jungle Theater’s production of The Gin Game, which opened May 30. Set in a seedy nursing home, this Pulitzer Award-winning drama by D.L. Coburn examines the problems of growing old as two residents strike up a friendship during a card game. Boehlke and Lehr…

  • Augustus F. Sherman: Ellis Island Portraits, 1905 – 1920

    A revealing and fascinating set of images snapped by an untrained eye have been making the rounds through museums around the country and finally makes a stop at the Minnesota History Center starting July 4. "Augustus F. Sherman: Ellis Island Portraits, 1905 – 1920", a photographic series of newly arrived immigrants taken by an Ellis…

  • Through the Looking Glass

    Local artist Jennifer Davis is exhibiting Through the Looking Glass, a series of whimsical and emotional narrative paintings that study the quirks of humanity, at the SOO Visual Arts Center’s Toomer Gallery beginning June 20. According to Davis, she approaches her work as an intuitive process. "From the confusing battles we fight within ourselves, to…

  • The Secret Fall of Constance Wilde

    The Guthrie Theatre presents Irish playwright Thomas Kilroy’s The Secret Fall of Constance Wilde, an exploration into the life of the wife of renowned writer Oscar Wilde, who had a highly controversial relationship with Lord Alfred Douglas during the marriage. Starring Sarah Agnew (of the acclaimed one-woman show The Syringa Tree) as the titular character,…

  • The Once and Future Celt

    The acceptance of identity and the power of family is hilariously chronicled in The Once and Future Celt, Bill Watkins’s conclusion to his trilogy of memoirs. The tale begins when the 21-year-old narrator finds himself in the care of a band of Gypsies. As he begins to fall for one of the camp members, he…