REVIEW: Joe Lovano and Dave Douglas Quintet (Crooners Supper Club) Arts Music by Brian Bix - June 24, 2022June 26, 2022 The many faces of American jazz saxophonist, alto clarinetist, flautist, and drummer Joe Lovano with trumpeter Dave Douglas, pianist Leonardo Genovese, bassist Matt Penman, and drummer Rudy Royston. Playing as the Sound Prints quintet, the five musicians officially kicked off this year's Twin Cities Jazz Festival on Friday. On June 23, Joe
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,
INTERVIEW: Playwright Kate Hamill’s New Emma at the Guthrie Arts Theatre by Basil Considine - June 14, 2022June 14, 2022 The Wurtele Thrust Stage at the Guthrie Theater. Photo by Gallop Studios. This Saturday, previews begin at the Guthrie Theater for Emma. This new adaptation of Jane Austen's classic 1815 novel about a would-be matchmaker in Regency Era England is penned by actor-playwright Kate Hamill, who has made something of a
NEWS: The Return of Northern Spark Arts Visual Arts by Amy Donahue - June 6, 2022June 6, 2022 Then Northern Spark art festival – an all-night, in-person, summer event in the Twin Cities – returns on Saturday, June 11. This year's festival explores the theme “What the World Needs Now”. This incarnation of Northern Spark will take place along University Avenue and downtown in St. Paul, MN on Saturday, June 11,
REVIEW: Power and Privilege in A Raisin in the Sun (Guthrie Theater) Arts Theatre by Dan Reiva - May 22, 2022May 26, 2022 What would you if someone offered you money to abandon your dreams – and was racist? In A Raisin in the Sun, now playing at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, Karl Lindner (Terry Hempleman) offers to buy out the Younger family (James T. Alfred as Walter Lee Younger, Nubia Monks as Beneatha Younger,
REVIEW: Falling in Love at the Moulin Rouge (Orpheum/HTT) Arts Music Theatre by Boo Segersin - May 21, 2022May 21, 2022 The cast of the North American Tour of Moulin Rouge! The Musical. Photo by Matthew Murphy. Welcome to the Moulin Rouge. Moulin Rouge! The Musical, that is – now playing at the Orpheum Theatre in Minneapolis. This award-winning production is jam-packed with amazing talent, beautiful music, and stunning choreography. From glittering costumes
INTERVIEW: Back to the B Minor Mass: The Bach Society of Minnesota’s Centerpiece Arts Music by Basil Considine - May 11, 2022May 11, 2022 The Bach Society of Minnesota's Artistic Director Matthias Maute conducts a performance of J.S. Bach's Christmas Oratorio at the Basilica of St. Mary in Minneapolis in 2021. Rock musicians have a notoriously short average lifespan (43.6 years). The average non-profit performing arts organization's lifespan is even shorter. Most are lucky to
INTERVIEW: Amy Quanbeck and Being a Minnesotan in the Moulin Rouge Arts Music Theatre by Basil Considine - May 11, 2022May 11, 2022 Conor Ryan (as Christian) and Courtney Reed (as Satine) star in the North American Tour of Moulin Rouge! The Musical, which opens at the Orpheum Theatre in Minneapolis next week. Photo by Matthew Murphy. On May 18, 2001, a film called Moulin Rouge opened at the North American box office. Directed and
FEATURE: Strumming a Richer Tune at DalekoArts in Once Arts Music Theatre by Basil Considine - May 7, 2022May 14, 2022 Singer-actor-dancer-instrumentalists Leslie Vincent (left) and Chris Paulson (right) star in DalekoArts' production of Once, now playing in New Prague, MN. Photo courtesy of DalekoArts. "Write what you know." It's one of the most common pieces of advice given to poets, novelists, songwriters, and other wielders of writing. To that, one might
PREVIEW: Black Violin’s Coming Back Arts Music by Basil Considine - May 3, 2022May 3, 2022 Black Violin will return to the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts in St. Paul, MN on Friday, June 17. In retrospect, "Impossible" was perhaps not the wisest name for Black Violin's 2022 tour. The celebrated musical duo of violist Wil B and violinist Kev Marcus regularly smashes through genre boundaries,