PREVIEW: Minnesota Boychoir Returns to In-Person Performances Arts Music by Twin Cities Arts Reader - June 14, 2021June 20, 2021 Seventeen months after its last live, in-person performance, the Minnesota Boychoir returns to in-person concerts with a trio of free performances around the Twin Cities on June 16, 17, and 19. The hundred-voiced ensemble last performed together in January 2020, at St. Paul's Landmark Center. Virtual rehearsals kept the group together
PREVIEW: SPCO to Wind Up Virtual Season with Final Broadcast 6/12 and 6/17 Arts Music by Twin Cities Arts Reader - June 7, 2021June 7, 2021 Composers Clarice Assad and Michi Wiancko will each have a musical composition premiered in the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra's final concert of the season. Photo courtesy of the SPCO. It's been four years since the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra launched its online Concert Library, which allows the general public to listen
REVIEW: Leslie Vincent Rocks the Belvedere in Sold-Out Show (Crooners) Arts Music by Basil Considine - June 6, 2021June 6, 2021 Singer-songwriter Leslie Vincent at her sold-out show at Crooners in Fridley, MN on Saturday, June 6. It was 95 degrees Fahrenheit in the open air in Fridley on Saturday evening. At Crooners, however, things were cooler, with a cooling breeze blowing off the lake and running under the tented canopy of
NEWS: The Return of the Northern Spark Festival, 6/12-6/27 Arts Dance Music Visual Arts by Twin Cities Arts Reader - June 4, 2021June 4, 2021 A promotional image for the Northern Spark festival, adorned with Ojibwe pictographs. The acclaimed Northern Spark festival returns to the Twin Cities from June 12-27. This year’s festival has a deliberate emphasis on healing, transformative art within the larger theme of Alchemy. The festival is designed to draw artists and the
INTERVIEW: Leslie Vincent on Jazzing Up the Return to Live Performance (Crooners/The Belvedere) Arts Music by Basil Considine - June 3, 2021June 3, 2021 White Bear Lake-based singer-songwriter Leslie Vincent (front left) with her band at Crooners on August 10, 2020. Photo by Darin Kamnetz. For some musicians, 2020-2021 has been a giant artistic blank spot – less a tabula rasa, more a vacant room. Not so for singer-songwriter Leslie Vincent, who is taking the
NEWS: Ordway to Throw Doors Open in September Arts Dance Music Opera Theatre by Twin Cities Arts Reader - June 3, 2021June 4, 2021 The facade of the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts in Saint Paul, MN. Photo by Mike Boeckmann. The Arts Partnership announced today that the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts in downtown Saint Paul will reopen for performances beginning this September. The September shows will be the Ordway's first in-person,
NEWS: Cats Out of the Bag, Off Hennepin Theatre Trust’s 2021-2022 Season Arts Theatre by Twin Cities Arts Reader - June 2, 2021June 7, 2021 A cat sitting on a tree branch in front of a bright harvest moon. Hennepin Theatre Trust announced today that the Broadway musical Cats will no longer be part of its upcoming 2021-2022 season. The schedule adjustment is the latest of many cascading changes in entertainment planning across the country as different
REVIEW: Thrilling WonderLand at the Hill House (Collide Theatrical) Arts Dance by Basil Considine - May 22, 2021May 22, 2021 The White Rabbit (Rush Benson), The Doctor (Jarod Boltjes), Alice (Miranda Shaughnessy), and the Mad Hatter (Patrick Jeffrey) in Collide Theatrical's dance show Wonderland, now playing at the James J. Hill House in St. Paul, MN. Photo by Wells Film & Photo. There is nothing quite like seeing a good show
NEWS: Playwrights’ Center Announces New Core Writers Arts Theatre by Twin Cities Arts Reader - May 22, 2021 The Playwrights’ Center announced the latest additions to its Core Writers program this week. This program, which gives playwrights a three-year affiliation and assistance with developing new works for the dramatic stage, will welcome seven new writers for 2021-2024: Mathilde Dratwa, L M Feldman, Franky D. Gonzalez, Yilong Liu, TyLie Shider, Deborah
NEWS: Loring Park Art Festival Returning July 31-August 1 Arts Visual Arts by Basil Considine - May 20, 2021May 20, 2021 A visual collage of work by the featured artists at the 2021 Loring Park Art Festival. Clockwise from upper left: Jay Nielsen, Megan Murrel, Emily Gray Koehler, Aryn and Courtney Kern, Janine Schwendinger, Josh Driver. 140 juried artists. Seven featured Minnesotan artmakers. That's the Loring Park Art Festival's opening salvo for