SPECIAL EVENT Drinks with the Devil Cock your top hat to the side and jaunt on over to Skyscape Condominiums for this red-hot cocktail party put on by the Minnesota Opera and The Rake. No need for those fancy mini-binoculars (aka "Opera Glasses") tonight; you’ll get your up close and personal mingle on with Kyle … Read more
It’s easy to understand the attraction of putting the extraordinary true life of George Hogg to film. An Englishman bearing witness to and working in war-torn 1930s China, Hogg became the headmaster of a failing school and grew to succeed where his predecessors had not. Fearing the Japanese army’s advance, Hogg resolved to lead his … Read more
Remember beauty? The breath-taking, awe-inspiring kind? Take a pause to remember. And remember what followed the initial encounter—the inescapable impulse to share. Did you fumble for your phone or camera to snap a picture for posterity right away? Did you turn to the person next to you, excitedly asking, "did you see…?" or verbally pointing, … Read more
I used to think that having POWER meant a better night’s rest and less worrying. I was again Wrong. In MY life I get to see a lot of things that most people don’t get to see. And there are times when I am so grateful for that window of lights, cameras, action — and … 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