Twin Cities Daily Planet

Mall Cops: Mall of America, the Learning Channel's reality television show spotlighting the Mall of America's security department, was such a surprise hit that more episodes are being filmed during the upcoming holiday season.

Not three weeks ago was I on the phone with Assurant, trying to convince them that geloplegia—the chronic neurological condition that occasionally causes my upper-body muscles to go weak when I laugh—affected me very rarely. ...

I would never have guessed that the hottest ticket of 2009 would be a 67-year-old author of 700-page books, but while tickets to most sold-out events can be found—albeit at a premium—on Craigslist, booklovers ...

I see quite a few plays, but never have I heard someone laughing so hard that she actually cried out for help. At the Thursday night performance of Four Humors'Love is Blind...and Furry at Bedlam ...

Despite the fact that it meant ending an extended acting hiatus, it must have been irresistible for Joe Dowling to cast himself as the title character in Brian Friel's Faith Healer. Not only is Friel a ...

The holidays are a time of cherished traditions, and for many families, those traditions include a theater outing. Local theaters are mounting a dizzying array of holiday shows this November and December—and most of them are variations on a few standard plots. ...

Elijah's Wake runs just over an hour, and it's paying Michael Sommers's creation a compliment to say that you probably wouldn't want it to last much longer. The acclaimed 2003 work by Open Eye Figure Theatre, ...

On Sunday, the New York City Marathon will come pounding through the five boroughs, passing through Fort Greene, and as usual thousands of people will be lining the route to cheer the runners on. But only one group will be playing the theme song from "Rocky." Over and over again. ...

At a media preview Thursday morning, Walker Art Center curator of visual arts Peter Eleey introduced Bennett Simpson and Chrissie Iles, the curators who assembled the career retrospective Dan Graham: Beyond, opening at the Walker on Saturday. ...

The soft-spoken Masanari Kawahara knows it takes a special talent to convince an audience that a puppet is more than just a hodgepodge of paper, paste and paint. "As a puppeteer," he says, "my job is to make this object come to life."

This month at the Bryant-Lake Bowl, theatergoers have the opportunity to see a staged reading of a new script about a new script about a new script. Got that?

If Dominic Papatola is right about their philosophy, the Ivey Awards jury will be too nice to shoulder aside other actors to honor Luverne Seifert for two consecutive years, acknowledging his turn in Othello ...

In the program notes for Faith Healer, now playing at the Guthrie, artistic director Joe Dowling, who also directed the production and plays the central role of Frank, writes that he first became acquainted ...