PREVIEW: Carnaval Brasileiro Arts Dance Lifestyle Music by Twin Cities Arts Reader - December 24, 2015 Beira Mar Brasil in concert. The Brazilian festival Carnaval Brasileiro returns to Minneapolis on Saturday, February 13, 2016. This long-running festival, now in its 14th year, will take place at International Market Square and is divided into two portions: 3-6 PM: Carnaval Brasileiro 2016 (including the BrazilFest Family Matinee). 9 PM-2 AM: Carnaval Brasileiro Masquerade Ball. The festival will be hosted
PREVIEW: Christmas Queens (Pantages Theatre) Arts Music by Twin Cities Arts Reader - December 20, 2015December 20, 2015 The reality-TV show RuPaul’s Drag Race has been running for seven seasons and shows no sign of losing momentum. This Tuesday, some of the contestants land at the Pantages Theatre for some holiday songs, mascara, and a bit of tucking. Here's a look at some of the ladies taking the
PREVIEW: 2016 Concerts at Chanhassen Dinner Theatres Arts Music by Twin Cities Arts Reader - December 20, 2015December 19, 2015 Chanhassen Dinner Theatres has announced the first half of its 2016 Concert Series. These performances take place at The Fireside Stage and are curated by CDT's Tamara Kangas Erickson. Most are organized around the music of a particular band or musician; theatergoers who didn't get enough of Beautiful while it was
PREVIEW: Twin Cities Winter Jazz Festival Arts Music by Twin Cities Arts Reader - December 19, 2015 Mother Nature may have delivered mixed signals this past month about whether or not winter is coming, but the planners for the Twin Cities Winter Jazz Festival have nevertheless locked in all of their performers. The lineups for the four festival stages at the Saint Paul Hotel are: Ballroom Dance 2:00 PM:
WEEKEND PICKS: Sound of Music, Blue Man Group, Snow Queen Arts Music Theatre by Twin Cities Arts Reader - December 18, 2015December 20, 2015 Pictured: Blue Man Group. November-December are some of the busiest months in the Twin Cities theatre season, with umpteen holiday shows and more Christmas Carol and Nutcracker variations than you can shake a stick at. Here's a non-holiday sampler of shows to take the kids to this weekend: Blue Man Group. This hard-to-describe
INTERVIEW: The Ordway’s Maria von Trapp: A Conversation with Billie Wildrick Arts Music Theatre by Twin Cities Arts Reader - December 17, 2015December 18, 2015 Last year, actress Billie Wildrick delighted audiences as Mother in the Ordway's production of A Christmas Story. When the snows vanished, however, Wildrick was off to Seattle, where musicals about escaping from factory work, drinking, and more drinking awaited. Now, with snow returning, Wildrick herself has returned to play the role of
PREVIEW: Rare Musical Films at Chanhassen Dinner Theatres Arts Movies Music by Twin Cities Arts Reader - December 15, 2015December 15, 2015 Chanhassen Dinner Theatres will show four compilations of rare music films at the Fireside Theatre on select Sunday afternoons in 2016 at 3 pm. Each showing is followed by dinner, and is introduced by film historian Bob DeFlores. The showtimes are: Sunday, February 7: The Soundies - Jukebox musical films of the 1940s Sunday, May 8: Great Comedy
PREVIEW: A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder Arts Music Theatre by Twin Cities Arts Reader - December 11, 2015 Monty Navarro (Kevin Massey, center) finds himself trapped between his affections for Sibella Hallward (Kristen Beth Williams) and Phoebe D'Ysquith (Adrienne Eller). It takes a long time to plan a Tony award-winning murder comedy and get away with it. Robert Freedman and Steven Lutback, the writers of A Gentleman's Guide to Love
Arts Practitioners, Educators Hail ESSA Passage Arts by Twin Cities Arts Reader - December 9, 2015 Today, the United States Senate voted to approve the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), sending this law to the White House. President Obama is expected to sign the act into law tomorrow, initiating one of the most broad changes in U.S. public education since the passage of the No Child Left
Magic Flute Revamp Rules Box Office Arts Music Opera Theatre by Twin Cities Arts Reader - December 9, 2015 The Queen of the Night may not have succeeded in Mozart's The Magic Flute, but Minnesota Opera certainly did. The company's recent revival of its 2014 staging of the opera completely sold out, with 9,808 tickets purchased for the six public performances. Throw in about 150 people for the first dress rehearsal and 1,600 eager high