REVIEW: Lovely Tangles in Don’t Dress for Dinner (Gremlin) Arts Theatre by Bev Wolfe - July 11, 2017July 12, 2017 Maeve Moynihan & Grant Henderson. Photo by DreamFirstBorn Images. French bedroom farce is in fine form in Gremlin Theatre’s production of Don’t Dress for Dinner. French playwright Marc Camoletti wrote the original play, which was presented using Robin Hawdon's English adaptation. Don’t Dress for Dinner was Gremlin's very first production all the way
FEATURE: Ed Jenkins on Lalo’s Lunchbox, Cooking, and Food Education Arts Lifestyle by Basil Considine - July 11, 2017July 12, 2017 Lalo (Ed Jenkins) and Daisy (Boo Segersin) on the set of Lalo's Lunchbox. The Slow Food movement is now 30 years old. In 1986, Carlo Petrini rallied the citizens of Rome against a proposed McDonalds near the Spanish steps, promoting traditional cuisine, local sourcing, and enjoying the art of preparing and sedately
FRINGE 2017: Coverage Roundup Arts Dance Music Theatre by Twin Cities Arts Reader - July 11, 2017July 21, 2017 Minnesota Tamil Sangam's The Intrepid, a dance musical extravaganza. This page shows all content published by the Twin Cities Arts Reader related to the 2017 Minnesota Fringe Festival. For our broader MN Fringe coverage (i.e., not restricted to a specific festival season), see: http://twincitiesarts.com/tag/fringe/ Disclosure The majority of the Arts Reader staff are engaged in the
Fringe File 2017, #3: Minnesota Fringe’s First Official Preview of 2017 Arts Dance Music Theatre by Hanne Appelbaum - July 11, 2017July 21, 2017 Aidan Jhane Gallivan in Swing and a Miss's production of A Murmur of Murder. Fringe is coming. Minnesota's nationally renown festival of experimental performing art opens on August 3rd, but local audiences can get sneak peeks at 30 of the 167 shows next Monday. Each of these 30 local companies will
REVIEW: Glensheen is Murderously Good (History Theatre) Arts Dance Music Theatre by Basil Considine - July 10, 2017July 11, 2017 Sandra Strughers, Gary Briggle, Jen Maren, Ruthie Baker, and Adam Qualls re-enact an iconic photo moment in the Glensheen murders scandal. Photo by Scott Pakudaitis. A year and a half ago, I heard that a murder mystery of a musical set in Duluth was making a killing at the History Theatre.
INTERVIEW: Venessa Fuentes and Dameun Strange on Mother King Arts Music Opera Theatre by Basil Considine - July 10, 2017July 10, 2017 The cast of Mother King in rehearsal. On the 1st of July 1974, an organist at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, was shot and killed by a deranged man who burst into the sanctuary. The victim, Alberta Christine Williams King, was an active church leader and NAACP member, the founder of
THE CURMUDGEON: Vol. 4 – Lack of BCC Arts Dance Music Opera The Curmudgeon Theatre Visual Arts by Hanne Appelbaum - July 8, 2017July 8, 2017 Dear Sir/Madam, I have emailed you this message with all the other recipients' email addresses in the To and/or CC fields. You will now receive lots of responses intended for me from everyone else on this list whose email client defaults to Reply All. You're welcome for the spamming! ~Your Solicitor There's a scene in
PREVIEW: Motown: The Musical (Orpheum Theatre/HTT) Arts Dance Music Theatre by Twin Cities Arts Reader - July 7, 2017July 7, 2017 Jarran Muse as Marvin Gaye in Motown: The Musical. Photo by Joan Marcus. The 2016-2017 Bank of America Broadway on Hennepin Season comes to a close on July 17th. This season hosted by the Hennepin Theatre Trust will go out with a retro bang with Motown: The Musical, which plays at the Orpheum Theatre in
THE CURMUDGEON: Vol. 3 – Photos and the Visual Arts Arts Dance Music Opera The Curmudgeon Theatre Visual Arts by Basil Considine - July 7, 2017July 8, 2017 The above blank image is like a student copying Kandinsky's white canvas for a class assignment: it says nothing. This is usually not what is desired. Dear Visual Artist PR Person, Thank you for your recent email. While you certainly used a great number of words to describe art created in an
THE CURMUDGEON: Vol. 2 – Who is in this show? Arts Dance Music Opera The Curmudgeon Theatre Visual Arts by Basil Considine - July 6, 2017July 6, 2017 Dear Press Release Writer, Nice minimalist press release! You had full contact info and all the details there about when and where the performance will take place – good start! However, it says nothing about who's in it or who wrote it. In fact, the only name at all included in the