REVIEW: Ain’t Too Proud: What Becomes of the Brokenhearted? Arts Dance Music Theatre by Brian Bix - June 29, 2022June 30, 2022 Harrell Holmes Jr., Elijah Ahmad Lewis, Jalen Harris, Marcus Paul James, and James T. Lane star as The Temptations in the musical Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of The Temptations, which opened Tuesday night at the Orpheum Theatre in Minneapolis, MN. When measuring records sold and overall artistic influence, The
INTERVIEW: The Temptations and Questions With Harrel Holmes Jr Arts Dance Music Theatre by Basil Considine - June 28, 2022June 28, 2022 Harrell Holmes Jr., Elijah Ahmad Lewis, Jalen Harris, Marcus Paul James, and James T. Lane in the National Touring Company of Ain’t Too Proud, opening tonight at the Orpheum Theatre in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Photo by Emilio Madrid. The touring Broadway musical Ain’t Too Proud – The Life and Times of The
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,
PREVIEW: The Return of the Spotlight Showcase (Hennepin Theatre Trust) Arts Dance Music Theatre by Amy Donahue - April 24, 2022April 24, 2022 A promotional image for the Hennepin Theatre Trust's Spotlight Education Spotlight Showcase event. The Spotlight Showcase, Minnesota high school theater’s biggest night, returns to the historic State Theatre in Minneapolis this June. This two-evening affair organized by the Hennepin Theatre Trust unites high school theater students from across the state for
REVIEW: That’s How You Jazz: Jelly’s Last Jam (Theater Latté Da) Arts Dance Music Theatre by Brian Bix - April 3, 2022April 3, 2022 Julius Collins (center) as Buddy and the cast of Theater Latté Da's production of Jelly’s Last Jam, which opened last night at the Ritz Theater in Northeast Minneapolis. Photo by Dan Norman. When George C. Wolfe brought Jelly’s Last Jam to Broadway in 1992, jazz fans were happy to see the important
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
REVIEW: A Brilliant Savoy Soap Opera is Ruddigore (GSVLOC) Arts Dance Music Opera Theatre by Basil Considine - March 20, 2022April 1, 2022 Part of the cover plate for the original vocal score of Ruddigore, prior to the opera's renaming. Had the comic opera writing duo W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan lived a half-century later, they would have assuredly written for the emergent genre of the day: television soap operas. If they had lived
REVIEW: Hurry Down the Road to Hell in Hadestown (Orpheum/Hennepin Theatre Trust) Arts Dance Music Theatre by Boo Segersin - March 15, 2022March 17, 2022 Kevyn Morrow and Kimberly Marable in the North American tour of Hadestown, which opened Tuesday at the Orpheum Theatre in Minneapolis, MN. Photo by T Charles Erickson. To call the musical Hadestown a success is an understatement. To call it a masterpiece, however, just might hit the mark. The show took home
REVIEW: “She Rescues Him Back” – But What More? Pretty Woman: The Musical (Orpheum/Hennepin Theatre Trust) Arts Dance Music Theatre by Bev Wolfe - March 1, 2022March 10, 2022 Kyle Taylor Parker starred in Pretty Woman: The Musical, which played at the Orpheum Theatre in Minneapolis in February. Photo by Matthew Murphy/MurphyMade. Pretty Woman: The Musical follows what has become a steady diet of revamping successful movies into Broadway musicals. The 1990 movie was a big box office success, catapulting
REVIEW: Don’t Run Away from Come From Away (Orpheum/Hennepin Theatre Trust) Arts Dance Music Theatre by Boo Segersin - January 12, 2022January 12, 2022 The touring company of Come From Away. Photo by Matthew Murphy. Last night, Come From Away finally opened at the Orpheum Theatre in Minneapolis. This show, about an ephemeral moment of human generosity in a community two decades ago, opened on Broadway in 2017. The show earned Christopher Ashley a Tony for Best