Crystal Manich, the recently named Artistic Director of Mill City Summer Opera. Photo by Laura Marie Duncan. Next summer, Mill City Summer Opera will open its festival season under new leadership: Crystal Manich, the company's recently named artistic director. Manich has directed operas across the United States and in far-off cities
PREVIEW: Chanhassen Dinner Theatres to Open Holiday Inn
A promotional image for Chanhassen Dinner Theatres' production of Holiday Inn, which opens this Friday in Chanhassen, MN. Chanhassen Dinner Theatres is going to open a Holiday Inn. Wait, that's not quite right – CDT is opening Holiday Inn, a stage adaptation of the beloved 1942 holiday film of the same name. Holiday
PHOTOS: I Come from Arizona (Children’s Theatre Company)
Luca La Hoz Calassara and Ayssette Muñoz in the Children's Theatre Company world premiere production of I Come From Arizona. Photo by Dan Norman. Tonight, the Children's Theatre Company opens its latest production, the world premiere of I Come from Arizona by Carlos Murillo. Murillo, an award-winning playwright of Colombian and Puerto
PHOTOS: Minnesota Opera’s La Rondine Takes Flight
Celine Bryne as Magda, Leonardo Capalbo as Ruggero, and the Minnesota Opera Chorus in Minnesota Opera’s new production of Puccini's La Rondine. Minnesota Opera's 2018-2019 season kicks off tonight with Giacomo Puccini's La Rondine, a tale of new love and spectres of the past. [Editor's note: Naturally, this plot has no bearing at all
PREVIEW: DaVina and the Vagabonds Return to the Dakota Jazz Club, 10/6-10/7
REVIEW: Moving Solo Songbook Show by Kenny Barrons (Crooners)
A publicity photo of jazz master Kenny Barron. Photo by Philippe Lévy-Stab. It has been a great week in the area for jazz piano, with Cyrus Chestnut leading a trio last week at Vieux Carre and Kenny Barron giving a magnificent solo performance last night at Crooners Lounge and Supper Club's Dunsmore
REVIEW: Blind, Deaf, Unrestrained inThe Miracle Worker (Yellow Tree Theatre)
Kiara Jackson and Jane Froiland in Yellow Tree Theatre's The Miracle Worker. Photo by Justin Cox Photography. Helen Keller was blind and deaf from an early age but went on to become an accomplished and world-famous equal rights activist, speaker, and author. Playwright William Gibson's play The Miracle Worker dramatizes the
REVIEW: Faded Novelty, Enticing Melody in Once (Latté Da)
REVIEW: A Sweet, Sweet Spirit with the Cyrus Chestnut Trio (Vieux Carré)
The Cyrus Chestnut Trio featuring Buster Williams and Lenny White. Photo courtesy of the AMI Agency. Some consider Cyrus Chestnut the finest jazz pianist of this generation. Without a doubt, he is one of the most entertaining; last evening at Vieux Carré, he arrived boosted by two excellent recent albums (2017's There’s
NEWS: Crystal Manich to Take Reins at Mill City Summer Opera
Today, Mill City Summer Opera announced the appointment of Crystal Manich as its new artistic director. Manich, a lauded stage director, will take the artistic reins for the company's 2019 season and direct its production of Mozart's Così fan Tutte. Read an interview with Crystal Manich on directing. Manich takes over