PHOTOS: BareBones Halloween 2017 (Hidden Falls Park) Arts Dance Music Visual Arts by Twin Cities Arts Reader - October 30, 2017 One of the Twin Cities' great Halloween traditions is BareBones Productions' annual outdoor show. For 24 years, The Annual Halloween Outdoor Puppet Extravaganza has brought giant puppetry, music, and storytelling to delight audiences young and old. This year's show takes place in Hidden Falls Regional Park in St. Paul, MN.
FEATURE: The Opera Lover’s Guide to Opera in Minnesota Arts Music Opera Theatre by Amy Donahue - October 29, 2017October 29, 2017 Baritone Jeehoon Kim in Really Spicy Opera's 2016 production of Rigoletto. New to the Twin Cities? Want to know where to go for opera? Well, you're in the right place: the Arts Reader's guide to opera in Minnesota. Where To See Opera Fargo-Moorhead The main producer of operas in the Fargo-Moorhead region is the aptly named
REVIEW: Rough but Poignant Birds Sing Differently Here (Guthrie Theater) Arts Theatre by Amy Donahue - October 29, 2017November 11, 2017 The aftershocks of war came home to the Guthrie Theater last night with the Iraqi and American Reconciliation Project’s Birds Sing Differently. This collection of stories is based on the real lives of 12 Iraqi-Minnesotan refugees and immigrants and is performed as part of the Guthrie's Level Nine Series. Unusually, this performance is given
REVIEW: The Ramsey Lewis Time Capsule (Dakota Jazz Club) Arts Music by Brian Bix - October 27, 2017October 27, 2017 A publicity photo showing jazz master Ramsey Lewis. Ramsey Lewis comes from a different time. It was a time when musicians produced record albums. He has had something like 80 of them (that is not a misprint: 80), going back to “Ramsey Lewis and the Gentlemen of Swing,” over 60 years
REVIEW: Classic Neil Simon Laughs in Come Blow Your Horn (St. Croix Off Broadway Dinner Theatre) Arts Theatre by Basil Considine - October 27, 2017October 29, 2017 It's not often that a first play stands the test of time as well as Neil Simon's Come Blow Your Horn, now playing at the St. Croix Off Broadway Dinner Theatre in Hudson, WI. Come Blow Your Horn is filled with all the situational humor and relatable character clashes that suffuse Simon's
REVIEW: Wedding Band Still Packs Gunpowder (Penumbra Theatre) Arts Theatre by Bev Wolfe - October 25, 2017October 26, 2017 The course of love does not run smooth for Julia (Dame-Jasmine Hughes) and Herman (Peter Christian Hansen) in Penumbra Theatre's production of Wedding Band: A Love/Hate Story in Black And White. Photo by Allen Weeks. Penumbra Theatre opens its 41st season with an explosive production of Wedding Band: A Love/Hate Story in
PHOTOS: Hook, Pan, Stars and More In Finding Neverland (Hennepin Theatre Trust) Arts Dance Music Theatre Visual Arts by Twin Cities Arts Reader - October 24, 2017October 25, 2017 The cast of Finding Neverland take flight. Photo by Carol Rosegg. Peter Pan author J.M. Barrie had a flair for the dramatic. After his Peter Pan made London's Kensington Gardens famous, Barrie decided to make the fictional resident an actual resident of this urban park. He secretly had a bronze statue of
REVIEW: Striking Music Man (Artistry) Arts Dance Music Theatre by Basil Considine - October 23, 2017October 24, 2017 The townsfolk prepare to put Harold Hill (Michael Gruber, center) on musical trial. Photo by Devon Cox. Artistry is on a musical roll. The company's striking new production of The Music Man follows last spring's thrilling, melodramatic production of The Secret Garden. After years of flashy productions weighed down by muddy sound mixes
REVIEW: On Driving Miss Daisy (Happy for That Theatre) Arts Theatre by Basil Considine - October 22, 2017October 23, 2017 Mary Kay Fortier Spalding as Daisy, Eric Wood as Hoke, and Dann Peterson as Boolie in Happy for That Theatre's production of Driving Miss Daisy. Happy for That Theatre's production of Driving Miss Daisy is a straightforward piece of theatre. It is interesting, often humorous, and strongly delivered with its simple staging. The basic setup
REVIEW: Ebullient Balloonacy Returns (Children’s Theatre Company) Arts Theatre by Bev Wolfe - October 20, 2017October 20, 2017 Robert Dorfman is followed by a mischievous red balloon in Balloonacy. Photo by Dan Norman. The Children’s Theatre Company revival of the play Balloonacy provides just the right level of silliness and heart for the preschool crowd. Barry Kornhauser wrote the play as part of CTC's Early Childhood Initiative. Director Peter