Gadfly’s Drunk Queer History returns for second season
Last year, Gadfly Theatre Company debuted Drunk Queer History, a queer riff off of the popular Comedy Central/Funny Or Die history show featuring drunk historians story-telling while actors re-enact...
View ArticleMinneapolis: A Surprising Hotspot for New Theatre and Queer Playwriting
While the rumor that Minneapolis has more theatre seats per capita than any other major city has proven false — we’re second to New York City and with all the The post Minneapolis: A Surprising Hotspot...
View ArticleQueering the Tarot: The World
The World sums up the Fool’s Journey that we started with when assessing the Major Arcana. This is a card of completeness and wholeness. This project, phase of your life, The post Queering the Tarot:...
View ArticleQueering the Tarot: IRL Workshop
Attention The Column readers! I am so thrilled to announce to this audience that has supported my Queering the Tarot series from the beginning, that my Queering the Tarot Workshop The post Queering the...
View ArticleSpotlight on the Arts: Lavender Panic, the Twin Cities’ LGBTQ improv troupe
Since their inception, Lavender Panic has performed as part of several different events, most recently “Improv-A-Go-Go,” Huge Theater’s Sunday night Pay What You Can offering primarily consisting of...
View ArticleQueering the Tarot: The Minor Arcana and the Ace of Swords
In the Tarot, cards are generally separated into two parts—the Major Arcana, which are thought of as being more about archetypes, things the Divine or universal energy brings about, or The post...
View ArticleTheater Review: Slate by Black Market Theatre
New theatre companies, collaborative work, and of course anything that calls out queerphobia or heterosexism are all things I have a deep, abiding love for. As such, I was thrilled The post Theater...
View ArticleA queer guide to doing the 2016 Twin Cities Fringe Festival
For Minnesota Theatre fans, the Minnesota Fringe is like Christmas — which means that it’s either a magical time when all your dreams come true, or a letdown where you’re The post A queer guide to...
View ArticleQueering the Tarot, Queering the Wands: Two-Four
Last time here at Queering the Tarot, I mentioned that a lot of the minor arcana (AKA the “suits” or “pips”) are really quick, straightforward cards. As such, to queer The post Queering the Tarot,...
View ArticleNew documentary, Project Q, Sheds Light on Minnesota Queer Art
For the artists and filmmakers most involved with the upcoming documentary titled Project Q, it’s been a long but exciting road from the inception to fast-approaching premiere on Aug. 24 The post New...
View ArticleQueering the Tarot: Five and Seven of Wands
Conflict, competition, and conviction take center stage with these strife-filled Wands cards. While their interpretations do have differences which we’ll talk about, their similarities are plentiful...
View ArticleTheatre Unbound’s The Taming offers surprises and laughs
Since 1999, Theatre Unbound has been producing theatre that filters this chaotic world we live in through crucial missing voices: women’s. The company is known for bringing playwrights as well The post...
View ArticleTwin Cities Zine Fest highlights queer artists
As a queer person who grew up in the ’90s and whose mom had very little expendable budget, I OBVIOUSLY loved zines and was elated to hear about the Twin The post Twin Cities Zine Fest highlights queer...
View ArticleGender Reels gives crucial spotlight to transgender and gender non-conforming...
Over the past couple of decades, we’ve seen a huge shift in how queer artists and their work are viewed. We certainly have not hit a tipping point, but there The post Gender Reels gives crucial...
View ArticleSustaining LGBTQ Arts at The Column
Artistic expression has been a vital part of the LGBTQ community, much of it lost to history. Our job at The Column to to preserve that history through written word, The post Sustaining LGBTQ Arts at...
View ArticleQueering the Tarot: The Six and Eight of Wands
Last time here on Queering the Tarot we looked at the Five and Seven of wands, AKA the negative cards in this suit. Today, then, we get to jump into The post Queering the Tarot: The Six and Eight of...
View ArticleDocumentary premiere of Free CeCe showing at Twin Cities Film Festival — this...
By now most of The Column’s readers probably now about the infuriating story CeCe McDonald’s imprisonment, but just in case, here’s a (very short) summary from the upcoming event’s own The post...
View ArticleQueering the Tarot: Ace of Wands
As we’ve seen so far as we go through the Wands of the Tarot, the Wands take on the most “extra” stuff, in my experience, when queering the deck. As The post Queering the Tarot: Ace of Wands appeared...
View Article20% Theatre’s Claire Avitabile writes and directs her bravest story yet—her own
Can one event, major and traumatizing as it may be, shape your entire identity? How do you process such events, move on, and grow while grappling with issues of identity The post 20% Theatre’s Claire...
View ArticleStrange Girls Are Taking Over Minneapolis!
A Conspiracy of Strange Girls is taking over Minneapolis — and, specifically, CO Exhibitions — to launch their Conspiracy on Saturday, November 12th. This groundbreaking project is the brainchild of...
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