PHOTOS: The Rocky Horror Show (Park Square Theatre) Arts Dance Music Theatre Visual Arts by Twin Cities Arts Reader - October 4, 2019October 3, 2019 Randy Schmeling as Riff Raff in Park Square Theatre's production of The Rocky Horror Show. Photo by Dan Norman. Park Square Theatre's new production of The Rocky Horror Show opens this evening in St. Paul, MN. Here's a look at the show: -- The Rocky Horror Show opens tonight at Park Square
REVIEW: Ephemeral Mean Girls Just Gotta Have Fun (Orpheum Theatre) Arts Dance Music Theatre Visual Arts by Basil Considine - October 3, 2019October 3, 2019 A scene from the touring production of Mean Girls, now playing at the Orpheum Theatre in Minneapolis. Pictured: Danielle Wade, Megan Masako Haley, Mariah Rose Faith, and Jonalyn Saxer. Photo by Joan Marcus. If stage and film were taken as the measure of U.S. society, one thing's for sure: our high
REVIEW: Murmurs on Memory and The Glass Menagerie (Guthrie) Arts Theatre by Bev Wolfe - October 3, 2019October 28, 2019 Remy Auberjonois as Tom Wingfield in the Guthrie Theater’s production of The Glass Menagerieby Tennessee Williams. Photo by T Charles Erickson. Memories are a funny thing. The past is more dependent on the memory-teller’s viewpoint than it is on what actually occurred in the past. Tennessee William’s classic play The Glass
INTERVIEW: Ilana Ransom Topelitz on Sharpening Rocky Horror‘s Bite (Park Square Theatre) Arts Dance Music Theatre by Basil Considine - October 2, 2019October 2, 2019 Director-choreographer Ilana Ransom Topelitz on the set of Park Square Theatre's upcoming production of The Rocky Horror Show. Photo by Rachel Wandrei. Of all the people that you might expect to love The Rocky Horror Show, Princess Diana of Wales was probably not at the top of the list. But it
REVIEW: Saxophone Meets Pipe Organ: Branford Marsalis & Jean-Willy Kunz (Northrop) Arts Music by Brian Bix - October 2, 2019October 3, 2019 Left: Jean-Willy Kunz standing amongst organ pipes (photo by Koralie Woodward); Branford Marsalis (photo by Palma Kolansky); and Jean-Willy Kunz at an organ console (photo by Antoine Saito). If politics has its First Families, so does music. Branford Marsalis is a well-known member of the "First Family of Jazz", a group
PHOTOS: Circus Abyssinia: Ethiopian Dreams (Children’s Theatre Company) Arts Dance Theatre by Twin Cities Arts Reader - October 1, 2019October 2, 2019 Bibi and Bichu Tesfamariam of Circus Abyssinia: Ethiopian Dreams (now playing at the Children's Theatre Company in Minneapolis) juggling. Photo by Rod Penn. The Children's Theatre Company production of Circus Abyssinia: Ethiopian Dreams was created by veteran circus performers Bibi and Bichu Tesfamariam. The brothers were featured in Disney's live-action Dumbo