Rohan Preston

6 days ago | startribune.com | Rohan Preston

For some arachnids such as spiders and scorpions, it's normal for the offspring to consume their mom to live. But it's a sign of supreme desperation when a human mother tells her starving children that they should eat her body for sustenance when she dies. That heartbreaking story is related in "Sickle," Abbey Fenbert's one-act drama that's up at Mixed Blood Theatre through this weekend.

1 week ago | startribune.com | Rohan Preston

By Rohan Preston 'The Mousetrap' will continue to spring a little longer at Monkswell Manor. The Guthrie Theater has extended the run of its first-ever production of the Agatha Christie classic whodunit that's set in a snowed-in country house. Tracy Brigden's staging, headlined by Matthew Amendt as Detective Sgt. Trotter and former Scrooge Matthew Saldívar as mysterious charmer Mr. Paravicini, has added another week of performances and will now close May 24.

1 week ago | startribune.com | Rohan Preston

1 week ago | startribune.com | Rohan Preston

Hold onto your scriptures. God would like a word with you, America. And she's landed in St. Paul in the body of a great Minnesota actor to give it to you straight, no chaser. Taking over the commanding voice and razor wit of Sally Wingert, the Divine One is showing jazz and standup comedy proclivities at Six Points Theater. In "An Act of God," she shows that she's prone to riffing and calling attention to her own thigh-slapping jokes. She also seems to go off script from time to time.

1 week ago | startribune.com | Rohan Preston

What language will one need to speak in the afterlife? The question arises with urgency after siblings Shadi (Elena Yazzie) and Broder (Nathaniel TwoBears) are temporarily cast into the spirit world during an intervention. Broder does not speak his family's ancestral Navajo language. Shadi knows only a few phrases, which she begins to yell in desperation. Fortunately for them, the Formless Being (Niizhogaabo) appears, speaking both Diné bizaad and English. The afterlife, it turns out, is bilingual.