There seem to be a lot of movies lately that feature a select few survivors of a catastrophic apocalypse who have to battle mutated humans in their search for other survivors (see 28 Days Later, The Happening, I Am Legend, and Shaun of the Dead). This, however, is not a new concept. An early pioneer … Read more
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. … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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, … Read more
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 … Read more
What would the world be like if God were president? Local inspirational speaker and spiritual psychotherapist Lisa Venable answers that question in her first book, God for President: A Parable About the Power of Love. When disillusioned activist Sarah Rose retreats from Washington to her Minnesota hometown, she begins to wonder exactly what would happen … Read more
Mira James, heroine and amateur sleuth of the Murder by Month mystery series, returns in local author Jess Lourey’s newest work August Moon. This fourth installment of the series finds Mira about to leave adopted home Battle Lake, Minnesota for good — until a high school cheerleader is murdered. The act is soon linked to … Read more
A murder in a south Florida retirement community would seem to be an event that is definitely out-of-the-ordinary. Add in a blind heiress loved by the town’s only cop, a former slasher film queen who runs a raucous Bar & Grill for the under-65, and a trio of Swedish circusfolk, and you’ve got yourself a … Read more