INTERVIEW: May Lee-Yang on The Korean Drama Addict’s Guide to Losing Your Virginity Arts Theatre by Basil Considine - May 29, 2018May 30, 2018 A scattering of papers from May Lee-Yang's forthcoming play The Korean Drama Addict's Guide to Losing Your Virginity. This October, Park Square Theatre's Andy Boss Thrust Stage turns four years old. Since opening in 2014, this second stage has exploded Park Square's season, fueling and facilitating collaborations that run parallel to
REVIEW: Excess and Glitter in Thaïs (Minnesota Opera) Arts Music Opera Theatre by Amy Donahue - May 27, 2018June 24, 2018 Gerard Schneider as Nicias, Kelly Kaduce as Thaïs, and Lucas Meachem as Athanaël with the cast of Thaïs. Photo by Cory Weaver. Sometimes, going to the theatre means checking your attitudes at the door. There's a certain market for pieces that have been edited to be politically correct and/or align with
REVIEW: Mixed Midtown Men (Ordway) Arts Music by Bev Wolfe - May 24, 2018May 24, 2018 This retrospective review looks back on the Midtown Men (above)'s performance last month at the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts. I attended The Midtown Men at the Ordway Concert Hall the same week I saw Jersey Boys for the first time. When I arrived at the concert it, seemed to
REVIEW: Thought-Provoking Taking Shakespeare (Gremlin Theatre) Arts Theatre by Bev Wolfe - May 22, 2018May 22, 2018 John A.W. Stephens in Gremlin Theatre's production of Taking Shakespeare. Photo by Alyssa Kristine Photography. John Murrell’s play Taking Shakespeare is a story about a burnt-out professor and a young man at a transformative time in his life. Gremlin Theatre’s Artistic Director Peter Christian Hansen directs this show with a small but
REVIEW: Rapid Laughs in Lord Gordon Gordon (History Theatre) Arts Dance Music Theatre by Bev Wolfe - May 21, 2018May 21, 2018 The cast of the History Theatre's Lord Gordon Gordon. Photo by Scott Pakudaitis. A fast moving evening of comedy and song awaits all who attend Lord Gordon Gordon (the name repetition is not a typo) at the History Theatre. It is the third collaboration between Jeffrey Hatcher (who wrote the book)
NEWS: Playwrights’ Center Announces 2018-19 Jerome and Many Voices Fellows Arts Theatre by Twin Cities Arts Reader - May 17, 2018 The recipients of the Playwrights' Center's 2018-2019 fellowship and mentorship awards. Clockwise from upper left: Haygen-Brice Walker, Philana Imade Omorotionmwan, Marvin Gonzalez, Casey Llewellyn, Sofya Levitsky-Weitz, and Antonio Duke. The Playwrights' Center in Minneapolis announced yesterday the recipients of its 2018-2019 fellowships. The PWC will host three new Jerome Fellows – Sofya Levitsky-Weitz, Casey
PREVIEW: Cirque Goes to the Movies (MN Orchestra) Arts Dance Music by Twin Cities Arts Reader - May 16, 2018May 21, 2018 A photo collage of Cirque de la Symphonie in action. Love a live orchestra, wish there was more to look at? Then the Minnesota Orchestra's upcoming weekend concerts are just what the doctor ordered. The program Cirque Goes to the Movies mixes two great things: the orchestra's popular film music series and
REVIEW: Arturo Sandoval, Trumpet Grandmaster (Dakota) Arts Music by Brian Bix - May 15, 2018May 15, 2018 A promotional photo of jazz trumpeter Arturo Sandoval. Last night, the trumpeter Arturo Sandoval played at the Dakota Jazz Club in Minneapolis. Over the course of the evening, he showcased his versatility in a performance filled with the charisma that attracts top-quality stars to his recording albums. Sandoval's new album Ultimate Duets!
REVIEW: The Magical Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (Spoiler-Free; NYC/Broadway) Arts Theatre by Basil Considine - May 13, 2018May 13, 2018 Light and composition are exquisitely used throughout the visually lush Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, now playing on Broadway. Photo by Manuel Harlan. What's the hardest show to get tickets to on Broadway right now? Not The Book of Mormon and not Hamilton. That honor belongs to Harry Potter and the Cursed Child,
PREVIEW: It Can’t Happen Here Reading (Arlington Hills Community Center) Arts Theatre by Twin Cities Arts Reader - May 13, 2018May 13, 2018 A promotional image for It Can't Happen Here. Some stories find their place immediately; some find resonance years or even decades later. It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis is both - a bestselling novel when it first came out in 1935, it was even more of a hit as a play