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Theater doesn't have to happen in a theater. For more than 20 years, the 

 theater company has staged shows in prisons, homeless shelters, adult education centers and other non-traditional venues.

Michelle Hensley is the founder and artistic director of Ten Thousand Things. Her model for, as she puts it, "reimagining theater," is catching on elsewhere in the country. She details the model and its success stories in a new book, "All The Lights On."

Hensley discussed the Ten Thousand Things model with MPR News' Tom Crann.

 for "All the Lights On" is at 7 p.m. on March 9 at Open Book in Minneapolis.

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For 20 years, Michelle Hensley has taken theater out of the theater, staging shows in prisons, homeless shelters and other non-traditional venues.

Theater doesn't have to happen in a theater. For more than 20 years, the Ten Thousand Things theater company has staged shows in prisons, homeless shelters, adult education centers and other non-traditional venues.

Reimagining theater in prisons, homeless shelters

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