PREVIEW: MNKino Film Score Fest at the Science Museum Arts Movies Music by Twin Cities Arts Reader - July 27, 2018July 28, 2018 Tomorrow marks the public culmination of the annual MNKINO Film Score Fest: a public screening with a live orchestra at the Science Museum of Minnesota. If you're not familiar with MNKINO, the organization promotes the creation of new films in the state of Minnesota. Participants sign up for time-sensitive film-making challenges
Fringe File 2018 #6 – VIDEO: The First Round of Previews Arts Theatre by Twin Cities Arts Reader - July 17, 2018July 18, 2018 A collage of all 136 show images for the 2018 Minnesota Fringe festivals. On Monday night, audience members gathered at the University of Minnesota to see the first of three preview events for the 2018 Minnesota Fringe Festival. The offerings? Three-minute previews of 21 Fringe shows – just enough to whet
PREVIEW: The Best Summer Ever! Yes? (Children’s Theatre Company) Arts Music Theatre by Twin Cities Arts Reader - July 9, 2018 Kevin Kling and Victor Zupanc "pondering" the Children's Theatre Company production of The Best Summer Ever! Photo by Kaitlin Randolph. It's been a long time since Osseo native Kevin Kling's autobiographical solo play Home and Away took him to New York City and back. It also went to a few other
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