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Monday, September 24, 2012

Feeling Low: "High," at the Pantages Theatre, makes no apologies in tackling a seriously sobering subject

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How do you define a nun? In  High , Kathleen Turner musters all of her considerable spunk into her role as Sister Jamison Connely, a co...

Taking Flight: Minnesota Opera's "Madame Butterfly" serves as a strong launching pad for new Music Director Michael Christie

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Yunah Lee as Cio-Cio-San in the Minnesota Opera production of Madame Butterfly. Image credit: Michal Daniel/Minnesota Opera ...

A Sinuous Experience: Ballet Preljocaj’s Snow White a visual feast built on talented dancers, a Cirque du Soleil-meets-traditional ballet set and stunning costumes by haute couture mastermind Jean Paul Gaultier

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Evil Queen Patrizia Telleschi brought a dominatrix stomp to her dances, dragging Snow White by the mouth with her poisoned apple and...

Blowing Out the Candles: Jungle Theater's 'Birthday Party' features a knock-your-socks-off second act, but remains a mixed bag

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Like the wacky un-birthday songs in Alice and Wonderland,  The Birthday Party turns the traditional notion of birthday festivities darkly ...

Opera Man: After a 15-year search, the Minnesota Opera hires 37-year-old Michael Christie as its new music director

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Michael Christie is the definition of Wunderkind. At 37, his biography reads like a who’s-who of the classical music world. From the...

Lofty Goals: Former pro athlete Tony Sanneh uses soccer to empower at-risk youth

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The principle of karma dictates that good deeds beget more good deeds (we're paraphrasing centuries of philosophy here, but you get th...

A Mixed Menu

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Much has been said about the correlation between frank conversations and the presence of food. The New Century Theater’s current show, M...