Article: JUNGLE TAKES ROOT; For director Bain Boehlke, it takes a village to make a playhouse. His new Jungle Theater opens this week, the jewel of the Lyn-Lake neighborhood it helped revive.(ENTERTAINMENT)

When the Jungle Theater opens Shakespeare's "Macbeth" Friday in its new $2.5 million home in south Minneapolis, it will boast not just a bigger, better playhouse but also a vibrant neighborhood. In its eight years, the Jungle has catalyzed a renewal of the surrounding Lyn-Lake area that serves as a striking example of how the arts can propel economic and social development.

Crime plagued the intersection of Lake St. and Lyndale Av. S. as recently as a decade ago, with drugs and prostitution trafficked openly. Spurred by the attention that the storefront theater focused on it, the area has become a nexus of arts organizations, owner-occupied shops and small ...

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