A promotional image for RE|dance group's It's About Love Again This Year. Here are some additional reviews from the first two days of the Minnesota Fringe Festival: Waiting for Gygax (Hot Chocolate Media) This parody of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot requires no prior knowledge of the play or Dungeons & Dragons, but is extra funny if you
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Fringe File, #16: Mini-Reviews, Pt. 1
A promotional image for Imagined Theatre's Facility. Throughout the 2017 Minnesota Fringe Festival, the Arts Reader will be posting short reviews of shows. Here are some reviews from the first two days of the festival: Facility (Imagined Theatre) A disturbing piece of theatre that makes you think about something with no easy answers, fraught fault lines,
Fringe File, #14: The Touring Showcase Preview Videos
Singer, banjoist, and guitarist Willi Carlisle in There Ain't No More. The Minnesota Fringe Festival, the largest theatre festival in the state, opened yesterday with 62 performances at venues across Minneapolis. Before the festival officially opened, a packed crowd assembled at Mixed Blood on Wednesday to view the Touring Artists Showcase,
PREVIEW: Loring Park Art Festival (July 29-30)
Sunflowers and booths at the Loring Park Art Festival. Photo by Sher Stoneman. Loring Park is one of the definitive summer hangout spots in the Twin Cities, with its gentle slopes and winding paths becoming home to numerous festivals when the weather's warm. This weekend, the Loring Park Art Festival fills
Fringe File, #9: Every Video from the Second Official Fringe Preview
An illustration for Waiting for Gygax, a Dungeons & Dragons-themed parody of Waiting for Godot staged by Hot Chocolate Media. Did you miss the second live preview of the Minnesota Fringe on Monday? Never fear: videos of each show preview (minus any last-minute cancellations and previews with Actor’s Equity members) are now online. Here they are
Fringe File 2017, #7: Every Video from the First Official Fringe Preview
A promotional image for Dancing Bare Feet, a Bollywood stage musical created by Renu Kumar and presented by RGK Modern Indian Dance Academy. Did you miss the live preview of the Minnesota Fringe on Monday? Never fear: videos of each show preview (minus any last-minute cancellations and shows with Actor's Equity
PREVIEW: Elle Casazza at the Uptown Art Fair
PHOTOS: A Mill City Summer Opera Retrospective
Eric Morris as Beppe, Jill Gardner as Nedda, Richard Crawley as Canio, and Andrew Wilkowske as Tonio in the Mill City Summer Opera's inaugural 2012 production of Pagliacci at the Mill City Ruins. Mill City Summer Opera's latest summer extravaganza, María de Buenos Aires, is currently playing at The Machine Factory while
FRINGE 2017: Coverage Roundup
Minnesota Tamil Sangam's The Intrepid, a dance musical extravaganza. This page shows all content published by the Twin Cities Arts Reader related to the 2017 Minnesota Fringe Festival. For our broader MN Fringe coverage (i.e., not restricted to a specific festival season), see: http://twincitiesarts.com/tag/fringe/ Disclosure The majority of the Arts Reader staff are engaged in the
PREVIEW: Motown: The Musical (Orpheum Theatre/HTT)
Jarran Muse as Marvin Gaye in Motown: The Musical. Photo by Joan Marcus. The 2016-2017 Bank of America Broadway on Hennepin Season comes to a close on July 17th. This season hosted by the Hennepin Theatre Trust will go out with a retro bang with Motown: The Musical, which plays at the Orpheum Theatre in