PREVIEW: Minnesota Boychoir Returns to In-Person Performances Arts Music by Twin Cities Arts Reader - June 14, 2021June 20, 2021 Seventeen months after its last live, in-person performance, the Minnesota Boychoir returns to in-person concerts with a trio of free performances around the Twin Cities on June 16, 17, and 19. The hundred-voiced ensemble last performed together in January 2020, at St. Paul's Landmark Center. Virtual rehearsals kept the group together
PREVIEW: SPCO to Wind Up Virtual Season with Final Broadcast 6/12 and 6/17 Arts Music by Twin Cities Arts Reader - June 7, 2021June 7, 2021 Composers Clarice Assad and Michi Wiancko will each have a musical composition premiered in the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra's final concert of the season. Photo courtesy of the SPCO. It's been four years since the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra launched its online Concert Library, which allows the general public to listen
NEWS: The Return of the Northern Spark Festival, 6/12-6/27 Arts Dance Music Visual Arts by Twin Cities Arts Reader - June 4, 2021June 4, 2021 A promotional image for the Northern Spark festival, adorned with Ojibwe pictographs. The acclaimed Northern Spark festival returns to the Twin Cities from June 12-27. This year’s festival has a deliberate emphasis on healing, transformative art within the larger theme of Alchemy. The festival is designed to draw artists and the
NEWS: Ordway to Throw Doors Open in September Arts Dance Music Opera Theatre by Twin Cities Arts Reader - June 3, 2021June 4, 2021 The facade of the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts in Saint Paul, MN. Photo by Mike Boeckmann. The Arts Partnership announced today that the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts in downtown Saint Paul will reopen for performances beginning this September. The September shows will be the Ordway's first in-person,
NEWS: Cats Out of the Bag, Off Hennepin Theatre Trust’s 2021-2022 Season Arts Theatre by Twin Cities Arts Reader - June 2, 2021June 7, 2021 A cat sitting on a tree branch in front of a bright harvest moon. Hennepin Theatre Trust announced today that the Broadway musical Cats will no longer be part of its upcoming 2021-2022 season. The schedule adjustment is the latest of many cascading changes in entertainment planning across the country as different
NEWS: Playwrights’ Center Announces New Core Writers Arts Theatre by Twin Cities Arts Reader - May 22, 2021 The Playwrights’ Center announced the latest additions to its Core Writers program this week. This program, which gives playwrights a three-year affiliation and assistance with developing new works for the dramatic stage, will welcome seven new writers for 2021-2024: Mathilde Dratwa, L M Feldman, Franky D. Gonzalez, Yilong Liu, TyLie Shider, Deborah
NEWS: Hennepin Theatre Trust’s New 2021-2022 Season Arts Dance Music Theatre by Twin Cities Arts Reader - January 14, 2021January 14, 2021 The cast of Hamilton, one of 12 musicals in the redesigned 2021-2022 season announced today by the Hennepin Theatre Trust. Photo by Joan Marcus. The Hennepin Theatre Trust announced its 2021-2022 season today. After numerous cancellations due to COVID-19, 11 of the 12 planned Broadways shows – plus an addition –
NEWS: Crooners to Reopen Jan. 28 Arts Music by Twin Cities Arts Reader - January 14, 2021January 14, 2021 Cocktails sit on the bar in a summer promotional photo from Crooners Supper Club in Fridley, MN. The Fridley, MN-based Crooners Supper Club will reopen January 28. Like other dining entities across the state, Crooners has been closed since November 20; by the time it reopens two weeks from today, it
NEWS: Chanhassen Dinner Theatres to Resume Concerts & Comedy Jan. 15 Arts Comedy Music Theatre by Twin Cities Arts Reader - January 8, 2021 Michael Gruber (as traveling conman Harold Hill) and Ann Michels (as Marian Paroo) in Chanhassen Dinner Theatres' The Music Man, whose performances were suspended in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Photo by Dan Norman. Chanhassen Dinner Theatres announced today that it will resume its live concerts and comedy shows beginning
NEWS: Forecast Public Art’s 2021 Grant Recipients Arts Visual Arts by Twin Cities Arts Reader - January 8, 2021January 13, 2021 St. Paul-based Forecast Public Art announced today the recipients of its 2021 early- and mid-career artist grants. A total of $86,000 has been distributed to support 15 artists working on 13 separate projects, leadership and professional development activities, risk-taking, multidisciplinary approaches, and collaborative problem solving in the field of public