NEWS: Cantus Announces 2022-2023 Season Arts Music by Twin Cities Arts Reader - August 18, 2022 A file photo of the vocal ensemble Cantus, from the male vocal ensemble's 2021-2022 season. Photo courtesy of Cantus. The Twin Cities-based vocal ensemble Cantus has announced its 2022-2023 season. The male octet will present five concert programs at a dozen Minnesotan destinations, and in twenty additional cities around the country. “We
Fringe File #6: The Golden Lanyards Arts Theatre by Twin Cities Arts Reader - August 15, 2022August 18, 2022 On Sunday evening, the Minnesota Fringe Festival announced the recipients of its Golden Lanyard Awards. Some of these awards are chosen by audiences and some by Fringe staff members: Audience-driven Awards Spirit of the Fringe 3 Guys on Stage Who Get Hit with Hot Dogs, Snow Cones, etc. - an alleged Theatre
NEWS: Ordway Announces Inaugural GreenRoom Fellowship Cohort Arts Dance Music Theatre by Twin Cities Arts Reader - June 22, 2022 The logo for the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts' new GreenRoom fellowship features a stylized double "G" against a backdrop of digital graffitti. The Ordway Center for the Performing Arts announced today its inaugural GreenRoom musical theater training fellowship recipients. These 10 artists, selected through a competitive application process,
NEWS: CAORC Announces 2022 Multi-Country Research Fellows Arts by Twin Cities Arts Reader - April 26, 2022 The Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC) announced today the 2022 award recipients for its Multi-Country Research Fellowship and the Mary Ellen Lane Multi-Country Travel Award. Now in its 29th year, the Multi-Country Research Fellowship supports advanced regional and trans-regional research in the humanities, social sciences, and allied natural
PHOTOS: A Look at Jelly’s Last Jam (Theater Latté Da) Arts Dance Music Theatre by Twin Cities Arts Reader - April 2, 2022April 2, 2022 Andre Shoals as the Chimney Man in the Theater Latté Da production of Jelly’s Last Jam. Photo by Dan Norman. "Jelly Roll" may seem an odd nickname for a musician. At the start of the 20th century, the term certainly referred to the familiar dessert – but in African-American slang of
NEWS: Ordway Announces New Season With Return of SIX, Beauty and the Beast, Patti LuPone Arts Music Theatre by Twin Cities Arts Reader - March 29, 2022April 7, 2022 Broadway legend Patti LuPone, of numerous Sondheim and other musicals' fame, will headline a concert in the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts' upcoming season. Photo by Axel Dupeux. The Ordway Center for the Performing Arts in St. Paul, Minnesota announced its latest season this evening. The 2022-2023 theatrical season will
NEWS: The Puppet Lab Returns (Open Eye Theatre) Arts Theatre by Twin Cities Arts Reader - March 29, 2022 The latest leadership and residency artist cohort for Open Eye Theatre's Puppet Lab. Clockwise from left: Rebekah Crisanta de Ybarra, Dominique Herskind, Mary Plaster, Amoke Awele Kubat, Liping Vong, and Oanh Vu. Rain and snow may be making their return on Wednesday, but Open Eye Theatre has something better: the return
NEWS: Emerging Curators Institute Announces New Cohort Arts Visual Arts by Twin Cities Arts Reader - March 27, 2022 A collage showing the 2022-2023 Emerging Curators Institute Fellows. The Emerging Curators Institute (ECI) has announced the recipients of its latest cohort of early-career fellowships. Recipients receive in-depth research support, professional development, and presentation training to prepare them for careers as museum and other curators. Unusually, the five recipients include two artist-curators
BREAKING NEWS: SPCO Cancels Neighborhood Series Concerts Arts Music by Twin Cities Arts Reader - January 25, 2022 The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra in concert. Photo by Chelsea Tischler. With Omicron cases besieging the public in all 50 U.S. states and most of U.S. territories, the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra has decided to cancel all of its Neighborhood Series concerts through March 13. Concerts at the Ordway Concert Hall
BREAKING NEWS: Guthrie Theater Reschedules Raisin, Destiny Arts Theatre by Twin Cities Arts Reader - January 10, 2022 The Guthrie Theater has adjusted its 2021–2022 performance calendar due to the COVID-19 pandemic. After catching emergent COVID-19 cases among vaccinated members in its forthcoming production of A Raisin in the Sun, the company has decided to temporarily shelve the production. Another forthcoming play, Destiny of Desire, is also being cancelled. The celebrated A Raisin