REVIEW: Sinuous Pilobolus Dance Theatre Show (Ordway) Arts Dance by Dan Reiva - May 25, 2016May 25, 2016 Pilobolus Dance Theatre presented five recent pieces and one older work from its repertoire in a performance last weekend at the Ordway. With the possible exception of choreographers from the Judson Church Dance Theatre or the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Pilobolus presents the best avant-garde movement in modern dance. It
PHOTOS: Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros Arts Music by Jeff Rutherford - May 22, 2016May 25, 2016 Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros played a sold out show at the inaugural concert at Surly Brewing's Festival Field.
NEWS: Cantus and Chanticleer, VocalEssence and Bocelli, Sitting in a Tree, S-I-N-G-I-N-G Arts Music Opera by Basil Considine - May 19, 2016May 20, 2016 Cantus and Chanticleer. Note: This story has been updated to include additional commentary. It's a practiced, Hollywood-style reveal: the lights go down, leaving the star singer in an intimate pool of light – then BAM! lights up, and it's a full choir singing! The crowd goes wild as the heavenly voices
REVIEW: Trouble in Mind (Guthrie Theater) Arts Theatre by Bev Wolfe - May 17, 2016May 17, 2016 Photo by Keri Pickett. Trouble in Mind, which opened this past weekend at the Guthrie Theater, is a humorous and gripping play that is not often produced. The author, Alice Childress, was an African-American actress whose notoriety as a “left-wing” playwright merited her own FBI investigative file in the 1950s. The
REVIEW: The Book of Mormon‘s Newer Testament (Orpheum Theatre) Arts Dance Music Theatre by Lydia Lunning - May 12, 2016May 13, 2016 Photo by Joan Marcus. Before Hamilton shot onto the scene early last year, The Book of Mormon was the hottest ticket on Broadway. This smash musical hit won a hefty nine Tony Awards, including Best Musical...but does it live up to it's hype? Yes, yes it does. And you might actually have a decent chance
INTERVIEW: Kelly Kaduce of The Shining Arts Music Opera Theatre by Basil Considine - May 12, 2016March 11, 2017 Wendy (Kelly Kaduce) and Danny (Alejandro Vega) Torrance meditate on the strange turns that their life has taken in The Shining. Photo by Ken Howard. Soprano Kelly Kaduce is Minnesota-born and raised, but since graduating from St. Olaf's she has traveled and sung all across the United States. The month of May finds
The Look of The Shining Arts Music Opera Theatre Visual Arts by Twin Cities Arts Reader - May 11, 2016May 11, 2016 Minnesota Opera's The Shining returns on Thursday to the stage of the Music Theater at the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts. Here's a detailed look at the opera's visual spark. What goes into this? Some of the key players in crafting the opera's look were stage director Eric Simonson, choreographer Heidi
REVIEW: The Shining = Brilliant Psychodrama (Minnesota Opera) Arts Music Opera Theatre by Basil Considine - May 10, 2016March 11, 2017 A disturbed Jack Torrance (Brian Mulligan) menaces his wife Wendy (Kelly Kaduce) and son Danny (Alejandro Vega) in The Shining. Photo by Ken Howard. Minnesota Opera's 2015-2016 season comes to a crashing bang with The Shining, an adaptation of the bestselling horror novel by Stephen King. The main thing wrong with this production appears
REVIEW: A Night on Olympus (Illusion Theater) Arts Dance Music Theatre by Bev Wolfe - May 9, 2016May 10, 2016 Harry (Tyler Michaels), Chad (Adam Qualls), and Maggie (McKinnley Aitchison) in A Night on Olympus. Photo by Lauren B Photography. Prom night, teenage love, zombies, and errant Greek gods combine in A Night in Olympus. This Illusion Theater production is a collaboration between composer and lyricist Chan Poling, and playwrights Jeffrey Hatcher and
REVIEW: Swingin’ in the Ring (Steppingstone Theatre) Arts Dance Theatre by Bev Wolfe - May 6, 2016May 6, 2016 Brian Sostek and Megan McClellan in Swingin' in the Ring. Photo by Paul Virtucio. Swing dancing, puppetry, and old-time boxing movies combine to create Swingin’ in the Ring, which opened last weekend at Steppingstone Theatre. This hybrid production is the fruit of Sossy Production (the husband and wife team of Megan McClellan and Brian Sostek