PREVIEW: Mixed Precipitation’s Pickup Truck Opera Returns Arts Music Opera Theatre by Amy Donahue - April 15, 2024 Singers Kara Morgan, Corissa Bussian, and Mark Billy in Mixed Precipitation's 2023 operatic production of Romeo and Juliet. In the not-so-distant future, scientist and entrepreneur Dr. Johann Faust faces a planet in crisis but no motivation to spare humanity its fate. He yearns to find a life of meaning and love.
NEWS: New Building-Sized Portraits, Coming to Downtown Minneapolis (Hennepin Theatre Trust) Arts Visual Arts by Twin Cities Arts Reader - April 13, 2024April 15, 2024 The Orpheum Theatre in Downtown Minneapolis, one of several historic theatres managed by the Hennepin Theatre Trust. The Hennepin Theatre Trust has announced the latest photographers for It's the People exposition of large-scale public art, highlighting the unique inspirations of humanity. Eight fine art portrait photographers will create portraits that will
NEWS: Jerome Foundation Announces $5.5 Million in Grants Arts Dance Music Theatre Visual Arts by Amy Donahue - April 11, 2024 Minnesota-based Ananya Dance Theatre (2023's We Are The Procession by Michhil Amra pictured) is one of 79 organizations to receive support from the Jerome Foundation in the coming cycle. ADT's award will underwrite its NextGen Choreolab program for early career, Minnesota-based choreographers. Photo by Canaan Mattson Photography. The Jerome Foundation –
PREVIEW: zAmya Theater Project’s Locked In: Care-Fully Breaking Free (Plymouth Congregational Church) Arts Theatre by Twin Cities Arts Reader - April 7, 2024April 7, 2024 A collage of photos from zAmya's Locked In: Carefully Breaking Free, which will be presented at Plymouth Congregational Church in Minneapolis, MN on May 28 at 6 PM. zAmya Theater Project – a transformational, social justice-driven theatre organization in Minneapolis – will present its latest work, Locked In: Care-Fully Breaking Free. This play
NEWS: The Minnesota Musical Coalition’s Final Bow Arts Music by John Anderson - April 5, 2024April 15, 2024 Cassandra Cole, Jillian Rae, and Mayda will perform at the Minnesota Music Coalition’s final event on Thursday, April 11 at the Hook and Ladder in Minneapolis, MN. The organization will disband after the concert. The Minnesota Music Coalition (MMC), a 13-year-old service organization that has linked independent musicians across the state with
PREVIEW: Improvising and Connecting – Cyrille Aimée at The Dakota Arts Music by Brian Bix - February 24, 2024 The award-winning French jazz singer Cyrille Aimée, who performs at The Dakota on March 19. Photo by Viktor Hlavatovic. Cyrille Aimée often talks about her childhood, growing up in a little village on the outskirts of Paris (Samois sur Seine), near where jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt used to live. Her
NEWS: Old Log Theatre to Close March 2 Arts Lifestyle Music Theatre by Twin Cities Arts Reader - February 20, 2024 Edvard Munch's 1893 painting The Scream. The Old Log Theatre, one of Minnesota's oldest theatrical establishments, will close permanently on March 2. The Cast & Cru Restaurant that shares the theatre lobby will also close The news was communicated today by the Old Log Theatre in an electronic communication THE OLD LOG THEATRE
REVIEW: A Jazz Journey – Joshua Redman Group at The Dakota Arts Music by Brian Bix - February 11, 2024February 11, 2024 Saxophonist Joshua Redman. The story is often recounted how the leading saxophonist Joshua Redman, son of free-jazz saxophonist Dewey Redman and dancer Renee Shedroff, seemed once to have been on quite a different life path. Redman won a full scholarship to Harvard, graduated there with highest honors, and was accepted to
NEWS: Pop Culture Stars in MN-DOT’s Snowplow Class of 2024 Arts by Twin Cities Arts Reader - January 30, 2024January 30, 2024 A word collage showing the names of the Minnesota Department of Transportation's newest snowplows, as decided by a public vote with more than 32,500 respondents. The Minnesota Department of Transportation has announced its Class of 2024 snowplow-naming contest winners. In characteristic fashion, the winners of this public voting contest are a
REVIEW: “All Dressed Up in Blue” – Keb’ Mo’ at The Dakota Arts Music by Brian Bix - January 24, 2024 Blues musician Keb' Mo'. Photo by Jeremy Cowart. Keb’ Mo’ (full name: Kevin Roosevelt Moore) effortlessly crosses genres (blues, country, folk, Americana/roots) and has gained many honors along the way. Adding to his five Grammy awards (and a total of 13 nominations), the GRAMMY Museum Mississippi recently gave him the Crossroads