NEWS: New Leadership at The Moving Company Arts Theatre by Twin Cities Arts Reader - July 5, 2018July 6, 2018 The Moving Company announced the appointment today of Larisa Netterlund as the company's newly created Executive Director. Since its establishment in 2008, The Moving Company has built a reputation for vivid theatrical works with alternately comic and dramatic tones. It has been led since its inception by Co-Aristic Directors Dominique Serrand
Fringe 2018: Coverage Roundup Arts Dance Music Theatre by Twin Cities Arts Reader - July 1, 2018July 10, 2018 A collage made from promotional show images from the 2018 Minnesota Fringe Festival. This landing page consolidates all of the Arts Reader's coverage for the 2018 Minnesota Fringe Festival. New interviews, features, previews, and reviews will appear here automatically when published.
PREVIEW: A New Twist on Underneath the Lintel (Latté Da) Arts Music Theatre by Twin Cities Arts Reader - June 1, 2018June 1, 2018 Sally Wingert in rehearsal for Theater Latté Da's upcoming production of Underneath the Lintel. Photo by Emilee Elofson. It is widely acknowledged that librarians are awesome. This is not a matter of intelligence or education: it simply is. One play that makes that point is Glen Berger's Underneath the Lintel (2001),
NEWS: Playwrights’ Center Announces 2018-19 Jerome and Many Voices Fellows Arts Theatre by Twin Cities Arts Reader - May 17, 2018 The recipients of the Playwrights' Center's 2018-2019 fellowship and mentorship awards. Clockwise from upper left: Haygen-Brice Walker, Philana Imade Omorotionmwan, Marvin Gonzalez, Casey Llewellyn, Sofya Levitsky-Weitz, and Antonio Duke. The Playwrights' Center in Minneapolis announced yesterday the recipients of its 2018-2019 fellowships. The PWC will host three new Jerome Fellows – Sofya Levitsky-Weitz, Casey
PREVIEW: Cirque Goes to the Movies (MN Orchestra) Arts Dance Music by Twin Cities Arts Reader - May 16, 2018May 21, 2018 A photo collage of Cirque de la Symphonie in action. Love a live orchestra, wish there was more to look at? Then the Minnesota Orchestra's upcoming weekend concerts are just what the doctor ordered. The program Cirque Goes to the Movies mixes two great things: the orchestra's popular film music series and
PREVIEW: It Can’t Happen Here Reading (Arlington Hills Community Center) Arts Theatre by Twin Cities Arts Reader - May 13, 2018May 13, 2018 A promotional image for It Can't Happen Here. Some stories find their place immediately; some find resonance years or even decades later. It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis is both - a bestselling novel when it first came out in 1935, it was even more of a hit as a play
PHOTOS: Mission Theatre Company’s Trojan Women Arts Theatre by Twin Cities Arts Reader - April 18, 2018April 18, 2018 Mission Theatre Company's staging of Euripides' classic play Trojan Women opened last night with a sold-out show. This play, first staged in 415 BCE, is set amidst the backdrop of the Trojan War. At its premiere, it functioned as a critique of Athenian policies in the Peloponnesian War – policies that had
PHOTOS: Dr. Seuss’s The Lorax (Children’s Theatre Company) Arts by Twin Cities Arts Reader - April 17, 2018 A scene from Dr. Seuss's The Lorax, opening Friday at the Children's Theatre Company in Minneapolis. Photo by Dan Norman. Dr. Seuss's book The Lorax was first published in 1971. Although its calls for environmental responsibility and biopreservation may now seem classic, it is important to remember that 1971 was still very
NEWS: Performance Cancellations Across the Twin Cities Arts Comedy Dance Music Opera Theatre Visual Arts by Twin Cities Arts Reader - April 15, 2018April 15, 2018 Performances across the Twin Cities have been cancelled yesterday and today as snowfall continues to blanket the Twin Cities. Minnesota Twins-Chicago White Sox games have also been postponed pending an improvement in the weather. One of the highlights of today's cancellations is the Downtown Choral Festival, which was scheduled to bring
NEWS: Leslie Vincent and the Van Goghs at the Heart of Scandal (April Fools) Arts Music Theatre by Twin Cities Arts Reader - April 1, 2018March 30, 2018 An artist's rendering of Leslie Vincent and the Van Goghs at a recent gig. Painting by Amy Danielson. Scandal has struck the band Leslie Vincent and the Van Goghs. The acclaimed Minneapolis-based ensemble, whose music ranges from soulful covers of standards to in-your-face feminist anthems, has been riven by an earful of