PREVIEW: Comedy Musical Gold: Kimberly Akimbo Lands at the Orpheum Arts Dance Music Theatre by Amy Donahue - July 7, 2025July 8, 2025 Laura Woyasz as Pattie in the National Tour of Kimberly Akimbo, which runs July 8-13 at the Orpheum Theatre in Minneapolis, MN. Photo by Patrick Gray, Kabik Photo Group. Once upon a time, there was an award-winning play with ice skating, a hypochondriac parent, and a girl who aged so fast
NEWS: Black-Led Arise Credit Union Launches Today Lifestyle by Twin Cities Arts Reader - June 19, 2025 The logo for Arise Community Credit Union, a new Black-led credit union that launches today to provide financial services supporting underserved individuals, businesses, and communities. Arise Community Credit Union, Minnesota's first specifically Black-led community credit union, officially opens today. The opening, coinciding with the Anika Foundation’s Juneteenth event at the Minnesota
NEWS: Minnesotans Win James Beard Awards Dining Lifestyle by John Anderson - June 17, 2025June 19, 2025 A glimpse of the menu at Bûcheron, one of two Minnesotan winners at the 2025 James Beard Awards yesterday. A Minnesotan restaurant and chef took home national awards at the 2025 James Beard Awards, some of the American culinary world's most prestigious honors. Minnesota chef Andrew Zimmern co-hosted the star-studded award
PREVIEW: MacPhail’s Kids Fest Concert & Morning of Fun Arts by Twin Cities Arts Reader - June 4, 2025June 20, 2025 Looking for a free, stimulating Saturday morning activity for younger kids? Consider popping down to the Water Works at Mill Ruins Park in Minneapolis on Saturday, June 7 for a series of family-friendly activities from the MacPhail Center for Music. What: Faculty musicians/teachers will play songs from Sing, Play, Learn, MacPhail’s award-winning
INTERVIEW: Jenny LeDoux and Nautilus’ Bluestem Arts Music Opera Theatre by Amy Donahue - June 1, 2025June 1, 2025 A promotional image for Nautilus Music-Theater's Rough Cuts reading of Bluestem, a new music theater piece by Eric Anderson and Kim Sherman. One of the best-kept secrets in the Twin Cities is Nautilus Music-Theater's Rough Cuts series – a chance to see riveting, intimate performances of material for the highly affordable
NEWS: Brews & Credit (Unions) Team Up Arts by Twin Cities Arts Reader - May 29, 2025 A photo of the new High Yield Pale Ale. The Minnesota Credit Union Network and Broken Clock Brewing Cooperative have launched the High Yield Pale Ale, a unique beer collaboration. A portion of every pint sold from the High Yield Pale Ale will be used to underwrite financial literacy efforts in
REVIEW: 21st Century Twists Complete & Juliet (Orpheum/Hennepin Arts) Arts Music Theatre by Bev Wolfe - May 18, 2025May 29, 2025 Corey Mach and the company of the North American Tour of & JULIE. Photo by Matthew Murphy. & Juliet uses the play within a play concept to provide Shakespeare’s classic Romeo & Juliet with an alternative ending. David West Read wrote the book for the show. Max Martin, a prolific song writer
PREVIEW: Ribald, Funny & Juliet Coming Soon (Orpheum/Hennepin Arts) Arts Music Theatre by Basil Considine - April 30, 2025April 30, 2025 Corey Mach and the company of the North American Tour of & JULIET, which opens at the Orpheum Theatre in Minneapolis on May 13. Photo by Matthew Murphy. "Like a shot of pure gold." That's how Variety magazine's Christian Lewis summarized & Juliet, a hilarious new musical running at the Orpheum Theatre in
REVIEW: Paul Simon’s Intimate Orpheum concert Arts Music by Bev Wolfe - April 28, 2025April 30, 2025 A promotional photo of American singer-songwriter Paul Simon. Paul Simon gave a low-key but stirring performance on Easter at the Orpheum Theatre in Minneapolis. I was especially excited to see him in concert since cancer treatments prevented me from attending his farewell tour in 2018. Still dealing with cancer, but on
NEWS: Arena Stage Honors Sen. Klobuchar with American Voice Award Arts Theatre by Amy Donahue - April 11, 2025April 11, 2025 Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater, a vaunted Washington, DC-area theatre, presented the American Voice Award to Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) on Thursday, April 10, 2025. The award presentation took place as part of Arena Stage's opening night celebration for the world-premiere production of Larissa FastHorse’s Fake