PREVIEW: Bringing Back that Detroit Sound (Don Was & The Pan-Detroit Ensemble at The Dakota) Arts Music by Brian Bix - May 6, 2024May 6, 2024 Don Was and the Pan-Detroit Ensemble. Photo by Gemma Corfield. The legendary musician Don Was will be bringing his new Pan-Detroit Ensemble, as well as his many lifetimes of musical experience, to The Dakota for two shows (6:30 pm and 8:30 pm) on May 21. Most of us came across Was for
PREVIEW: HUGE Improv Theater’s Summer Season Arts Theatre by Twin Cities Arts Reader - May 4, 2024May 5, 2024 HUGE Improv Theater's still new-to-it space at 2728 Lyndale Ave in Minneapolis. The nonprofit has been an anchor tenant bringing patrons to other area businesses in Uptown for 14 years. HUGE Improv Theater – the Twin Cities' only venue devoted exclusively to both teaching and presenting long-form improv – has announced
PREVIEW: The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra’s 2024-2025 Season Arts Music by John Anderson - April 20, 2024April 20, 2024 The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra in concert. Photo by Chelsea Tischler. Piazzolla’s The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires. A composer residency with Valerie Coleman. An oboe d'amore concerto. These are a few of the highlights of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra's new season. For its 66th season, the SPCO – one of
PREVIEW: Mixed Precipitation’s Pickup Truck Opera Returns Arts Music Opera Theatre by Amy Donahue - April 15, 2024 Singers Kara Morgan, Corissa Bussian, and Mark Billy in Mixed Precipitation's 2023 operatic production of Romeo and Juliet. In the not-so-distant future, scientist and entrepreneur Dr. Johann Faust faces a planet in crisis but no motivation to spare humanity its fate. He yearns to find a life of meaning and love.
NEWS: New Building-Sized Portraits, Coming to Downtown Minneapolis (Hennepin Theatre Trust) Arts Visual Arts by Twin Cities Arts Reader - April 13, 2024April 15, 2024 The Orpheum Theatre in Downtown Minneapolis, one of several historic theatres managed by the Hennepin Theatre Trust. The Hennepin Theatre Trust has announced the latest photographers for It's the People exposition of large-scale public art, highlighting the unique inspirations of humanity. Eight fine art portrait photographers will create portraits that will
NEWS: Jerome Foundation Announces $5.5 Million in Grants Arts Dance Music Theatre Visual Arts by Amy Donahue - April 11, 2024 Minnesota-based Ananya Dance Theatre (2023's We Are The Procession by Michhil Amra pictured) is one of 79 organizations to receive support from the Jerome Foundation in the coming cycle. ADT's award will underwrite its NextGen Choreolab program for early career, Minnesota-based choreographers. Photo by Canaan Mattson Photography. The Jerome Foundation –
PREVIEW: zAmya Theater Project’s Locked In: Care-Fully Breaking Free (Plymouth Congregational Church) Arts Theatre by Twin Cities Arts Reader - April 7, 2024April 7, 2024 A collage of photos from zAmya's Locked In: Carefully Breaking Free, which will be presented at Plymouth Congregational Church in Minneapolis, MN on May 28 at 6 PM. zAmya Theater Project – a transformational, social justice-driven theatre organization in Minneapolis – will present its latest work, Locked In: Care-Fully Breaking Free. This play
NEWS: The Minnesota Musical Coalition’s Final Bow Arts Music by John Anderson - April 5, 2024April 15, 2024 Cassandra Cole, Jillian Rae, and Mayda will perform at the Minnesota Music Coalition’s final event on Thursday, April 11 at the Hook and Ladder in Minneapolis, MN. The organization will disband after the concert. The Minnesota Music Coalition (MMC), a 13-year-old service organization that has linked independent musicians across the state with
PREVIEW: Improvising and Connecting – Cyrille Aimée at The Dakota Arts Music by Brian Bix - February 24, 2024 The award-winning French jazz singer Cyrille Aimée, who performs at The Dakota on March 19. Photo by Viktor Hlavatovic. Cyrille Aimée often talks about her childhood, growing up in a little village on the outskirts of Paris (Samois sur Seine), near where jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt used to live. Her
NEWS: Old Log Theatre to Close March 2 Arts Lifestyle Music Theatre by Twin Cities Arts Reader - February 20, 2024 Edvard Munch's 1893 painting The Scream. The Old Log Theatre, one of Minnesota's oldest theatrical establishments, will close permanently on March 2. The Cast & Cru Restaurant that shares the theatre lobby will also close The news was communicated today by the Old Log Theatre in an electronic communication THE OLD LOG THEATRE