PHOTOS: A look at Artistry’s Footloose Arts Dance Music Theatre Visual Arts by Twin Cities Arts Reader - July 18, 2019July 18, 2019 Ethan Davenport (Ren McCormack), Angela Steele (Ariel Moore), and Erin Nicole Farsté (Rusty) with the cast of Artistry's Footloose, which opens tomorrow at the Bloomington Center for the Arts. Photo by Devon Cox. Artistry's Footloose opens tomorrow at the Bloomington Center for the Arts. This musical (based on the 1984 film
Fringe File #4: INTERVIEW: Hannah Bakke and Escape THIS (TheatreX) Arts Theatre by Basil Considine - July 17, 2019July 20, 2019 The cast of TheatreX's upcoming Fringe show Escape THIS in rehearsal. Pictured: Ryan Vanasse, Christy Johnson, Kyle Doherty, and Hannah Bakke. Photo by Joe Hendren. When Napoleon Bonaparte invaded Egypt in 1798, he had no idea that his most enduring legacy would be Egyptomania. The French military expedition included historians and
PREVIEW: The Fiddler on the Roof National Tour (Orpheum/Hennepin Theatre Trust) Arts Dance Music Theatre by Twin Cities Arts Reader - July 17, 2019July 17, 2019 The cast of the Fiddler on the Roof national tour, which comes to the Orpheum Theatre in Minneapolis July 30-August 4. Photo by Joan Marcus. How iconic is Fiddler on the Roof? So much that, reviewing its film adaptation, the New Yorker's notoriously picky Pauline Kael called it "the most powerful
MUSIC VIDEO: The Pixies’ “On Graveyard Hill” Arts Music by Twin Cities Arts Reader - July 17, 2019July 17, 2019 The legendary alt rock band The Pixies dropped a new music video today. Directed by Kii Arens (behind the music videos for Devo's "What We Do" and Queens of the Stone Age's "The Vampyre of Time and Memory"), the psychedelic video sets the band's recent single "On Graveyard Hill". "On Graveyard
REVIEW: La Serva Padrona Ascends at Icehouse (Mill City Summer Opera) Arts Music Opera Theatre by Basil Considine - July 16, 2019July 17, 2019 Rodolfo Nieto (center) and Madison Holtze (right) in Mill City Summer Opera's production of the opera La serva padrona. Photo by Jasmin Kemp. Mill City Summer Opera leaped onto its first-ever second stage last night. The company's compact production of La serva padrona is a light-hearted, entertaining gem staged at the
REVIEW: Inspired Readings in Leaves of Grass (Guthrie Theater) Arts Dance Theatre by Amy Donahue - July 16, 2019July 26, 2019 An illustration by Margaret C. Cook for a 1913 edition of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass, the subject of a recent play of the same name by Patrick Scully at the Guthrie Theater. 2019 marks the bicentennial of Walt Whitman's birth. The American poet's long shadow still tinges much of American
Fringe File #3: INTERVIEW: Kevin T. Houle on Star Trek, Being Stuck in an Elevator, and Fandom Plays Arts Theatre by Basil Considine - July 10, 2019July 10, 2019 George M. Calger, Travis Bedard, Ali Daniels, and Tanya E. Walker rehearse The Theatre Cosmic's production of Stuck in an Elevator with Patrick Stewart II: The Wrath of Fandom, opening August 1 at the Minnesota Fringe Festival. The religiosity of Star Trek fans is not just a joking matter – it's
NEWS: Patrick Scully’s Leaves of Grass – Illuminated Sells Out (Guthrie Theater) Arts Dance Theatre by Basil Considine - July 10, 2019July 26, 2019 If you want to see Patrick Scully's Leaves of Grass and haven't bought tickets, you might want to put the Guthrie's box office on your speed dial. The show's July 12-14 limited run at the Guthrie Theater sold out before the 4th of July fireworks even had a chance to
Fringe File #2: The Overachiever’s Plan for Day 1 of the Minnesota Fringe Festival Arts Dance Music Theatre by Amy Donahue - July 9, 2019July 10, 2019 A collage of show images from the 2019 Minnesota Fringe Festival. There are many different ways to approach to the Minnesota Fringe Festival, the Twin Cities' annual performing arts binge extravaganza. Mine has two rules. The first? Park once, move never. The second? Variety. Rule 1 means that, once I've parked my
NEWS: Judge Rules Against Guthrie Theater in Retaliation Complaint Arts Theatre by Hanne Appelbaum - July 8, 2019July 10, 2019 The cover of a July 5, 2019 decision by the National Labor Relations Board against the Minneapolis-based Guthrie Theater. Yelled arguments bleeding through walls. Complaints answered with retaliation. Unanswered requests for Human Resources to assist and intervene. These are a small selection of the details that emerged in a recent case