Queering the Tarot: The Tower
Cassandra Snow takes readers on a queer tour of tarot reading. The Tower is the number one card that freaks out people who know anything about tarot when it shows The post Queering the Tarot: The Tower...
View ArticleLullaby: A World Premiere
A play with music by Michael Elyanow • Featuring Music and Lyrics by Garrison Starr, Chris Dallman,Curt Schneider and Michael Elyanow • Directed by Jeremy B. Cohen • Music Direction The post Lullaby: A...
View ArticleSpotlight on the Arts: Gender Tender
Gender Tender is a truly fascinating and uplifting performance art duo (and real life couple!)and I’ve seen them perform a couple of different times now. What I love most is The post Spotlight on the...
View ArticleQueering the Tarot: The Star
When I started this series, I primarily wanted to examine the cards individually and see how they would apply in queer situations, as well as share stories of my life The post Queering the Tarot: The...
View ArticleDarkMatter’s #ItGetsBitter hits Twin Cities in March
There are ELEVEN plays opening this weekend, many of them involving LGBTQ+ characters or storylines, and many more coming down the hatch this February and early March. This is in The post DarkMatter’s...
View Article20% Theatre Company presents Naked I: Self-Defined
I have trouble even verbalizing how important it is that The Column readers see this show. The post 20% Theatre Company presents Naked I: Self-Defined appeared first on The Column.
View ArticleA Breathtaking, If Imperfect ‘June’
There are things that happen in theatre that I love such as all-female casts, queer stories that don’t end in utter tragedy, and period pieces I haven’t seen a million The post A Breathtaking, If...
View ArticleGadfly Theatre aims to create space for queer and feminist performance
Gadfly Theatre Productions, a queer and feminist theater company in the Twin Cities, launched a fundraiser last week to raise funds for a permanent space for queer and feminist performing The post...
View ArticleTwin Cities Queer Art Goes Digital
It’s no secret that Minneapolis is one of the greatest cities for queer culture and arts. It’s not perfect, but it has so much heart and passion for advocacy. It The post Twin Cities Queer Art Goes...
View ArticleQueering the Tarot: The Moon
Perhaps it is because I am a most stereotypical Pisces, but The Moon has always been one of the most important tarot cards to me, and in many ways sums The post Queering the Tarot: The Moon appeared...
View ArticleA sneak peak at documentary chronicling “How Love Won” in Minnesota
A trailer has been released for How Love Won, a 90 minute documentary about the fight for marriage equality in Minnesota. A world premiere date has also been set; the The post A sneak peak at...
View ArticleNew Epic Theater’s The Normal Heart by Larry Kramer is a must see
Oftentimes I am skeptical of plays covering the AIDS epidemic — it’s not because I’m blind or ignorant to the horror of the crisis or uncompassionate towards those affected. It’s The post New Epic...
View ArticleQueering the Tarot: The Sun
Last time here on Queering the Tarot, we talked about the Moon, our shadow selves, and our subconscious, with some traces of divine feminine magic woven throughout. Following the Moon The post Queering...
View ArticlePost-Minnehaha Avenue, Patrick’s Cabaret will continue to bring us innovation...
By now it’s old news that Patrick’s Cabaret, one of the most important local venues and organizations for artists on the fringe of performance art, is leaving its firehouse homestead The post...
View ArticlePSSYCTRL subverts standard comedy shows with feminist and queer perspective
It doesn’t take an expert in the field to understand that stand-up comedy in 2016 is still very much a (white, straight, cisgender) man’s game. These men dominate the scenes The post PSSYCTRL subverts...
View ArticleSpotlight on the Arts: Uprising Theatre Company
Uprising Theatre Company came onto my radar during Mixed Blood’s run of Hir last year where Artistic Director Shannon TL Kearns spoke about the play we’d just seen and art The post Spotlight on the...
View ArticleMixed Blood’s production of Charm brings together stellar queer and trans cast
Mixed Blood Theater is known for producing provocative plays intended to start conversations about the marginalizations people face in our society. They’ve produced many of my favorite shows, but...
View ArticleQueering the Tarot: Judgement
Judgement is a word that has a lot of negative connotations on it regardless of whether someone is queer or not. The metaphor in a more traditional deck is troubling The post Queering the Tarot:...
View ArticleQ-STAGE Brings Queer Voices and Original Work Center Stage
Known for their original and important work elevating women’s and trans’ voices in the local theater scene, three seasons ago 20% Theatre Company used their previous work as a jumping The post Q-STAGE...
View ArticleArt of Change showcases art and life with HIV
Minnesota AIDS Project is almost unparalleled in the quality of activism in fighting HIV while also working to advocate for those living with it, as well as abolishing the stigma The post Art of Change...
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