While wandering the Stone Arch Bridge Festival, photographer Scott Pakudaitus captured a growing audience as they stopped to watch a performer on stilts.
The impulse to create theater from our lives—to wear costumes, tell stories, and find meaning in them—is not defined by the location of a show. This month, we search outside the conventional theater for some of the most popular theater.
By Sheila Regan
Posted Thursday, March 4
What do three path-breaking troupes like Body Cartography Project, Skewed Visions, and Off Leash Area think they're doing?
By Quinton Skinner
Posted Monday, March 1
Tea Party Rallies are theater. So is a tragic evening at a Timberwolves game. But theater critic Quinton Skinner begins this month's column with cavemen.
By Quinton Skinner
Posted Monday, March 8
When a theater critic visits a church service at Jefferson Community School, what's the verdict?
By Quinton Skinner
Posted Thursday, March 11
Courtroom procedure uses the trappings of theater to make messy reality manageable.
March 2010
All the world's a stage. . .
February 2010
Reel live
January 2010
Feeling Minnesota
December 2009
Jingle blogs
November 2009
Making art, work
October 2009
So very close. . .
September 2009
How are we doing?
August 2009
Fringe points of view
July 2009
Stories
June 2009
On the road
May 2009
What's new?
April 2009
Spring break
See it this week at The Gremlin Theatre in St. Paul. Presented by Theatre Pro Rata.

David Coral directed Enchanted April playing at Theatre in the Round this month.
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jgulden: Thank you Michael, Tamara and Steven for stepping up to the plate and keeping @ChanhassenDT alive and hundreds of MN actors employed! #mnpl
Commonweal: RT @sailert: The latest from the apprentice blog. Today was a cue to cue rehearsal for Death and the Ploughman: http://tinyurl.com/ye7hd49 #mnpl
sailert: The latest from the apprentice blog. Today was a cue to cue rehearsal for Death and the Ploughman: http://tinyurl.com/ye7hd49 #mnpl