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
Author: Twin Cities Arts Reader
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PREVIEW: The Best Summer Ever! Yes? (Children’s Theatre Company)
NEWS: New Leadership at The Moving Company
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
PREVIEW: A New Twist on Underneath the Lintel (Latté Da)
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
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)
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)
PHOTOS: Mission Theatre Company’s Trojan Women
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)
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