Catherine Sullivan, erstwhile dorm-mate of local dancer Dylan Skybrook (who collaborated on this show), now fields world-wide commissions to make her critically acclaimed video installations and films. For Triangle of Need, her latest project, Sullivan produced eight different works for simultaneous projection. At the heart of these disparate strands of images are three locations: the … Read more
Musicians Steve Roehm, Chan Poling, and John Munson have a knack for freshening up the classics. Here, the trio pays tribute to the old-fashioned practice of dressing for dinner, patronizing two St. Paul establishments with timeless style. Special thanks: Concept, productions, and styling by Janine Ersfeld Photography by Aaron Smith Art direction … Read more
Maybe this has happened to you. But it was my first time. It was a Monday afternoon, and I’d made a date to meet C., a former colleague, for a drink. I was a little late getting to the restaurant, my head fuzzy from a summer cold. So I pulled into the first parking place … Read more
photo by Raffy Abasolo(Cover photo by Brian Hayes) Strange and terrible things happen all over the world every day, of course, as well as wonderful things, things merely prosaically sad, irresistibly trivial, or urgently relevant to our lives. People suffer and die in far-away places and in neighborhoods where we live. Legislation is debated and … Read more
In the introduction to his comprehensive history of Rome, Livy invited his readers to “trace the process of our moral decline, to watch, first, the sinking of the foundations of morality … then the rapidly increasing disintegration, then the final collapse of the whole edifice, and the dark dawning of our modern day when we … Read more
When we entertain at home, we take for granted that we all partake in the same dishes, prepared in portions large enough to share. So isn’t it a bit odd, in this age of dining out as entertainment, for friends to gather at a restaurant and each order a different meal? It’s a very American … Read more
The always irreverent and ever-theatrical indie-rock band Fort Wilson Riot created this five-part “indie-rock opera” (and album) about a nameless American journalist and his adventures in a mysterious foreign land. Enlisting the help of Jeremey Catterton, a stage director and friend from the University of Minnesota who now resides in London, the band has cobbled … Read more
If you happen to be wandering near the Walker some evening this month, do not be alarmed if you’re accosted by a young European wielding a video camera. This is merely part of the “War on Anonymity” waged by the Gob Squad, a performance art troupe whose members hail from the U.K. and Germany. One … Read more
Though she loves classics, Diane Paulus has a penchant for finding inspiration in the more theatrical aspects of pop culture. The New York City-based director recently staged Turandot in a professional wrestling ring, but she’s better known for her production of The Donkey Show, a disco adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. So it’s not … Read more
There is Shakespearean language, with its grand soliloquies and sonnets. And then there is the language of David Mamet, who made his name by elevating everyday speech into an art form. This fall, The Jungle Theater brings those trademark machine-gun sentences, stutters, and profanities to the stage with Speed-the-Plow. . Jungle Artistic Director Bain Boehlke … Read more