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Rohan Preston covers theater for the Star Tribune.

Rohan Preston has been theater critic at the Star Tribune since 1998. He led a Star Tribune team that won an Emmy for a documentary for the historic 2008 elections. He has served on the Pulitzer Prize jury for drama. Before coming to the Star Tribune, he wrote for the Chicago Tribune and the New York Times.


Review: Artistry's 'Newsies' thrills as it leaps off the stage in Bloomington

Director Ben Bakken works the huge cast into an entertaining lather.


Review: Is Guthrie's Pulitzer Prize winner 'English' too subtle for its own good?

The play centers on interpersonal relations as Iranian students take a language class but is haunted by historic geopolitical ghosts.


Review: Pop styles, spunk and sparkly outfits rule in Ordway's 'Six,' back for a zesty third time

The remix of history reclaims the herstories of the Tudor queens as channeled by pop princesses.


Hitchcockian psycho thriller 'Rope' gets back to its stage roots at Gremlin Theatre

Peter Christian Hansen, who has never seen the film, says his staging of the play will feature interesting similarities and differences.


Jeff Bartlett, lighting designer and former Southern Theater artistic director, dies at 73

The "painter with lights" helped performing arts companies launch even as he helped artists realize their visions onstage.


Review: Guthrie serves up macabre wit with summer sleeper musical 'Little Shop of Horrors'

The theater's first production of the 1982 show makes light, fun work of the bloodthirsty plant.


Review: Latino update of 'Romeo and Juliet' in Minneapolis thrills as 'Rent'-like musical

The collaboration between the Bach Society and Teatro del Pueblo feels vital as it resets the Bard's work in a Mexican border town.


Guthrie summer musical 'Little Shop of Horrors' leans into its B-movie roots

It's a popular show across U.S. stages. But director Marcia Milgrom Dodge promises Minneapolis a definitive production of the cult musical that teases out its deeper themes.


Wanna be in the 'Purple Rain' Broadway musical? Producers have started casting in Minneapolis.

During an event Saturday, the creative team reassured fans that the new show will retain Prince's essence: "We're going to introduce 'Purple Rain' to a whole new generation."


Dates announced for world premiere of Prince's 'Purple Rain' musical

The show will begin at the State Theatre, blocks from First Avenue, the nightclub where Prince filmed much of his 1984 film.