INTERVIEW: Mariah Rose Faith on Mean Girls and Her Personal Screen-to-Stage Journey Arts Dance Music Theatre by Basil Considine - September 30, 2019September 30, 2019 Jonalyn Saxer, Mariah Rose Faith, Megan Masako Haley, and Danielle Wade in a promotional photo for the national tour of the musical Mean Girls. Photo by Mary Ellen Matthews. Minneapolis is about to get mean. Mean Girls, that is. The brand-new national tour of this Broadway musical kicked off in Buffalo, NY
REVIEW: Rollercoaster All the Way in Ride the Cyclone (Jungle Theater) Arts Dance Music Theatre by Bev Wolfe - September 26, 2019September 26, 2019 Gabrielle Dominique, Michael Hanna, Shinah Brashears, Josh Zwick, Becca Hart, and Jordan M. Leggett in the Jungle Theater production of Ride the Cyclone. Photo by Dan Norman. The exploding musical Ride the Cyclone ushers in Jungle Theater’s new season. The show is best described as a mix between an amusement ride
INTERVIEW: Sabine Hogrefe on Battling the Soprano-Wrecker in Elektra Arts Music Opera Theatre by Basil Considine - September 24, 2019September 28, 2019 Costume sketches by Mathew LeFebvre for Minnesota Opera's upcoming production of Richard Strauss's opera Elektra. The Soprano-Wrecker. The End of Harmony. The Most Horrific Tragedy in Opera. The First Freudian Opera. These are but a few of the nicknames for the opera Elektra. Composed by Richard Strauss, the opera first took
REVIEW: Vibrant, Satirical Chicago Sends Up Celebrity Justice (Latté Da) Arts Dance Music Theatre by Basil Considine - September 23, 2019October 8, 2019 Britta Ollmann and Michelle de Joya in Theater Latté Da's production of Chicago. Photo by Dan Norman. You never know what you're going to get with Ebb, Fosse, and Kander's musical Chicago. Some productions are downright joyful, some are dark, and others morbid. Theater Latté Da's new production, which opened last night
REVIEW: Sardonic Humor in Glass Menagerie (Guthrie Theater) Arts Theatre by Basil Considine - September 22, 2019September 22, 2019 Grayson DeJesus (as Jim O’Connor) and Carey Cox (as Laura Wingfield) in the Guthrie Theater’s production of The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams, now playing at the Guthrie's Wurtele Thrust Stage in Minneapolis. Photo by T Charles Erickson. Memories are a tricky thing. As recounted by Tom in the prologue to The
PHOTOS: Theater Latté Da’s Chicago Arts Dance Music Theatre by Twin Cities Arts Reader - September 20, 2019September 20, 2019 Britta Ollmann and Michelle de Joya in Theater Latté Da's production of Chicago, now in previews at the Ritz Theater in Minneapolis. Photo by Dan Norman. Theater Latté Da's production of the classic Kander/Ebb/Fosse musical Chicago opens tomorrow at the Ritz Theater in Northeast Minneapolis. Here's a look at the company's
REVIEW: Masterful Acting in a Curious Incident (Yellow Tree Theatre) Arts Theatre Visual Arts by Bev Wolfe - September 18, 2019September 18, 2019 Zach Schnitzer in Yellow Tree Theater's production of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, now playing in Osseo, MN. Photo by Justin Cox. Yellow Tree Theatre opened its 12th Season last week with The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. Playwright Simon Stephens based his play
REVIEW: Retro Hit Parade in Smokey Joe’s Cafe Arts Dance Music Theatre by Basil Considine - September 17, 2019September 18, 2019 The company of the Ordway's new production of Smokey Joe's Cafe. Photo by Dan Norman. Smokey Joe's Cafe is an unabashed jukebox musical revue. It has no plot, no throughlines worth reporting, and no dialogue. If these things were at all missed, the audiences at the Ordway Center for the Performing
PREVIEW: Donna Grantis at the Dakota Jazz Club, 9/24 Arts Music by Brian Bix - September 17, 2019September 17, 2019 Donna Grantis in concert at the Dakota Jazz Club in Minneapolis, MN. Photo by Joe Lemke. As a young Canadian guitarist, Donna Grantis dreamed of jamming with Prince. This dream actually came true: one day, out of the blue, a call came from Hannah Welton – Prince’s drummer – asking Grantis
PREVIEW: The Old Log’s Plan to Get Away With Murder Arts Dance Music Theatre by Basil Considine - September 12, 2019September 12, 2019 A promotional image for the musical A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, which begins previews October 18 at the Old Log Theatre in Excelsior, MN. It's not every day that a theatre plans to commit mass murder and get away with it. However, the Old Log Theatre – a longtime