FEATURE: Erasing the Tracks: How Individuals and Arts Organizations Respond to Sexual Misconduct Arts Music Opera Theatre by Basil Considine - August 29, 2020August 30, 2020 A series of electronic communications related to ex-Opera Theatre of Saint Louis employee Damon Bristo. Scandal hit Opera Theatre of Saint Louis on Tuesday, August 11. One of the company's senior officials, Damon Bristo, had been arrested and charged with child sex trafficking. This was news to the public, but not
NEWS: MN Playlist Goes Political, Seeks Actors for Phone Bank Arts Theatre by Amy Donahue - August 25, 2020August 26, 2020 What's a COVID-furloughed actor to do? For a select few, there were Zoom rehearsals, most of which have dried up. There are Zoom performances, most of which don't pay or pay well. There are not-on-Zoom traditional actor side jobs, most of which not considered as safe a bet (or, really,
NEWS: 20% Theatre Company to Sunset After 15 Glorious Years Arts Theatre by Hanne Appelbaum - August 20, 2020August 20, 2020 A word cloud created from the titles of 20% Theatre Company's past works. 20% Theatre Company, an important voice in the area theatre scene, will close in late 2021. This will conclude fifteen years of critically acclaimed programming highlighting the voices of women, transgender persons, and nonbinary artists.20% Theatre Company was
NEWS: SPCO Cancels Concerts through End of Year Arts Music by Twin Cities Arts Reader - August 6, 2020August 12, 2020 Countertenor Reginald Mobley with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra in one of the ensemble's December 2018 concert performances of Handel's Messiah. The performance is one of many available through the SPCO website. Today, the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra became the latest performing arts organization in the Twin Cities to cancel its
NEWS: Illusion Theater Shakes the Inkwell Arts Theatre by Amy Donahue - July 29, 2020July 29, 2020 "Fresh ink is the opposite of stale ink" – an old printer's proverb. The Illusion Theater's Fresh Ink Series has been going for a long time. How long? 33 years young, pivoting periodically to align itself with the needs of the time and the changing populations that it serves. After all, the
NEWS: Minnesota Opera Cancels Traditional 2020-2021 Season, Plans Outdoor and Digital Fall 2020 Arts Music Opera Theatre by Amy Donahue - July 28, 2020July 28, 2020 The operatic adaptation of Stephen King's The Shining is one of several productions missing in Minnesota Opera's recently retooled 2020-2021 season plans. Photo by Theresa Murray. Minnesota Opera announced today that the company is discarding its 2020-2021 season plans in favor of a retooled outdoor/digital fall season and a still-to-be-announced slate
NEWS: No More Broadway in 2020, Cirque du Soleil Bankruptcy Hits VStar Arts Theatre by Twin Cities Arts Reader - June 29, 2020August 12, 2020 A promotional photo of the Wheel of Death in Cirque du Soleil's KOOZA show. It's official: Broadway theatres are closed through the new year. The Great White Way will continue to be the Great Dark Way for at least six months, with producers bowing to the ongoing pandemic and refunding
BREAKING NEWS: Ordway CEO Jamie Grant to Depart for Palm Desert Arts by Twin Cities Arts Reader - June 21, 2020June 28, 2020 When fall comes, Jamie Grant will be in the desert. You might even say that he's going to Coachella, although not to the festival of that name. The Ordway Center for the Performing Arts announced today that its President and CEO Jamie Grant will be leaving August 31. Grant will take
FEATURE: A Monument Falls in St. Paul Arts Visual Arts by Basil Considine - June 11, 2020June 28, 2020 A statue of Christopher Columbus lies face-down on the ground after protestors pulled it from its pedestal near the Minnesota State House on June 10, 2020. Photo by Tony Webster (CC BY 2.0). A giant statue's head on the ground. Another larger-than-life statue, bound with rope, being pulled to the ground
INTERVIEW: Amber Bjork on the Winding Sheet Outfit and Cooking through a Pandemic Arts Theatre by Basil Considine - May 7, 2020May 7, 2020 Veni, vidi, workspace. A 3D arrangement of notes used by Amber Bjork when working on the 2019 theatrical show You Are Cordially Invited to the Life and Death of Edward Lear. Mention the name Amber in a Twin Cities theatre and the theatre people will know exactly who you mean. Outside