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The Twin Cities Arts Reader is an arts and lifestyles magazine whose coverage examines arts and selected activities in the state of Minnesota and across the country. It provides in-depth, critical arts coverage and reaches more than 600,000 readers per year.

REVIEW: The Rose Ensemble’s A Rose in Winter

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"A rose by any other name would smell as sweet" quoth Juliet in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. But would an ensemble of any other name sing as sweet? The Rose Ensemble's current program, A Rose in Winter, looks at first glance like it might be a play on The Lion in Winter over

REVIEW: All is Calm (Hennepin Theatre Trust)

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Photo by George Byron Griffiths. Peter Rothstein's All is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914 is an odd theatrical bird. This dramatic reading of soldiers' letters and diary entries from World War 1 is woven together by exquisite singing of English, Welsh, French, and German-language folk songs, often in many parts. It's

NEWS: Ordway Announces 2017-2018 Musicals

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The Ordway Center for the Performing Arts announced today its 2017-2018 Musical Theater Series. This series will be sponsored by Bremer Bank and features four classic shows: Jesus Christ Superstar – July 18-23, 2017 Kinky Boots – August 8-13, 2017 In the Heights – September 12-17, 2017 Annie – December 7-31, 2017 Jesus

REVIEW: The Trailer Park’s the Thing in Miss Richfield 1981’s Holiday Show (Illusion Theater)

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Another year, another Christmas Carol, another Nutcracker, and...another installment of Miss Richfield 1981's annual holiday show. If you're near to the Twin Cities theatre scene and haven't seen Miss Richfield 1981 at an event, you've been deprived. This December drag show has a devoted following, a lot of people who come in by

PREVIEW: The Rose Ensemble’s Winter Garden

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The Rose Ensemble. Photo by Michael Haug Photography. Winter weather may be here (hello, hail on Monday!), but the Rose Ensemble is still keeping things growing in these northern climates with a concert program entitled The Rose in Winter. This program, which will be presented December 15-18 in the Twin Cities and

PREVIEW: Returning The Crucible to its Origins (Theatre Coup d’Etat)

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A 19th-century engraving depicting an episode in the Salem Witch Trials. The artist has moved the trial from its original church setting to a 19th-century courtroom. The basic narrative of Arthur Miller's 1953 play The Crucible is well-known: in colonial Massachusetts, a number of young women accuse other colonists of practicing witchcraft. Hundreds

INTERVIEW: A Wink from PWC’s Jen Silverman

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From December 5-6, the Playwrights' Center in Minneapolis will present Jen Silverman's play Wink as part of its Ruth Easton New Play Series. Silverman, a Core Writer at the Playwrights' Center, spoke with the TCAR's Hanne Appelbaum and Basil Considine about her writing and the upcoming play. HA: I've found playwrights

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