“Rumors” is not a perfect play and Urban Samurai Production’s staging of it isn’t perfect, either. But there’s a certain deftness about this flawed production of a flawed play that offers a pleasant ...

Director Jimmy LeDuc’s production of Christopher Hampton’s Les Liaisons dangereuses for Urban Samurai Productions makes between-scene sport of the amorous yet tactical relationship between servants ...

Nursery University, a documentary released last year, explores the ultra-competitive world of elite preschools in New York. Although I haven’t seen the film, it confirms the existence of the bizarre ...

Long ago, the bright lights of the Twin Cities seduced me away from the Iowa hamlet of my formative years. Returning there can be a little like stepping back in time — not because Iowa isn’t ...

Of all the abductions, this one is different.

When someone commits suicide, the first response is visceral emotion: shock, grief, horror. Then the mind kicks in, trying to make sense of what the heart can’t abide, we ask, “Why? Why? Why? What ...

It’s a cutthroat, dog-eat-dog world out there, even to get into preschool. In Eric Coble’s “Bright Ideas,” Generva and Joshua know that getting their 3-year-old into the Bright Ideas Early Childhood ...