Curating the Milestones of Actors’ Lives

Part of the VITALITY ARTS SPECIAL REPORT Picture this: You’re a working actor. You master tricky pratfalls and stunts, memorize reams of lines, sing, dance — and do all of this in front of a live audience eight times a week. Sounds exhilarating, yes? M… Continue reading

Some Enchanted Evening: The Story of a Midlife Blind Date

(This is an excerpt from Love, Loss and Moving On, a memoir by Lorie Kleiner Eckert, about life post-divorce, which she discovers includes both challenges and opportunities.) Going on this date is either a very romantic or an entirely insane thing to d… Continue reading

A Return to The Age of Aquarius

Creative inspiration can strike when it is least expected. For Richard Hitchler, co-founder and artistic director of Theatre 55, an early summer bike ride in 2018 past the Minnesota History Center in St. Paul, Minn. provided a light bulb moment as he w… Continue reading