Adam Qualls (foreground) stars as Jesse James in The Defeat of Jesse James. The time-warping, nail-biting, side-splitting musical tells of the courageous inhabitants of Northfield, Minnesota, who in 1876 stood up to the outlaw and his gang. Written by Jeffrey…
BooksNext Chapter Booksellers, 38 S. Snelling Ave., will host readings and discussions with author Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah and his debut novel, Chain-Gang All-Stars, at 6 p.m. Tuesday, May 9; author Jim Landwehr and his memoir, At the Lake, 6 p.m.…
TheaterPlaywright Sam Shepard’s True West will be staged at 7:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays from April 21 through May 14 at Theatre in the Round, 245 Cedar Ave. S. in Minneapolis. Skirting the line between darkly…
Thompson takes the helm of storied downtown stage. The future is now for Saint Paul’s History Theatre and its new artistic director Richard D. Thompson. Thompson succeeded longtime artistic director Ron Peluso at the beginning of the year. He is…
Books Next Chapter Booksellers, 38 S. Snelling Ave., will host free readings and discussions with poets Diane Jarvenpa, Dralandra Larkins, Lora Robinson, John Medeiros and Michael Moos in a Literary Bridges program at 2 p.m. Sunday, April 2; poets Mary…
FRIDAY/MARCH 24“CAN BLACK AND WHITE MEET AT THE CROSS?” will be discussed by the Reverend Kelly Chatman at 7:15 p.m. in the Hearth Room of the Anderson Student Center at the University of Saint Thomas. Sponsored by the Institute of…
Emmy Award-winning guitarist Billy McLaughlin (center) and his band Simple Gifts will perform innovative and inspirational music with a Celtic twist in concert on Sunday, March 19, at Mount Olive Lutheran Church in Minneapolis. For details, see the Music listing…
Books The Stories Whiteness Tells Itself: Racial Myths and Our American Narratives will be discussed by author David Mura at 6 p.m. Monday, February 27, at Next Chapter Booksellers, 38 S. Snelling Ave., and at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 22,…
BooksThe Stories Whiteness Tells Itself: Racial Myths and Our American Narratives will be discussed by author David Mura from 7-8:30 p.m. Wednesday, February 8, at the Minnesota Humanities Center, 987 E. Ivy Ave. The book unmasks how the stories whites…
TheaterThe Root Beer Lady, a one-woman show about Dorothy Molter, the last person to have a home in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area, will open on January 28 at the History Theatre, 30 E. 10th St. Bucking the social norms…
Richard D. Thompson has been named as the fourth artistic director in the 44-year history of the History Theatre, 30 E. 10th St., after a nationwide search. Thompson has more than 30 years of experience as a director, administrator, choreographer,…
Theater A Christmas Carol Krampus, or It’s A Pretty OK Life, an irreverent mash-up of such familiar holiday characters as Frosty, Hermey, the Grinch and Dickens’ ghosts, will be performed from December 9-17 by Classics Lost ’n’ Found Theater. The…
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