PREVIEW: Hotly Anticipated Frozen Times Ahead (Hennepin Theatre Trust) Arts Dance Music Theatre by Twin Cities Arts Reader - August 30, 2021August 30, 2021 Caroline Bowman as Elsa (center) with the North American Touring Company of Frozen, which opens in Minneapolis on September 30. Photo by Deen van Meer. This week's cooler weather and rain are not just a welcome respite from a scorching summer, but also a harbinger of things to come: one month
NEWS: Minnesota State Fair, Day 1 Attendance Arts Lifestyle Music by Twin Cities Arts Reader - August 27, 2021August 29, 2021 A selection of cakes await judging at the Minnesota State Fair, which runs through September 6, 2021 in St. Paul, MN. Photo courtesy of the Minnesota State Fair. The Minnesota State Fair is back this year, but on Day 1, at least, the crowds were not. The State Fair kicked off
NEWS: Jungle Theater’s Abbreviated, Pay-As-You-Can Season Announced Arts Theatre by Twin Cities Arts Reader - August 26, 2021August 26, 2021 The Jungle Theater in Minneapolis, MN. The Jungle Theater announced its 2021-2022 season today. The historic theater in Uptown Minneapolis will present an abbreviated, three-show season with a new-for-the-theatre, pay-as-you-can model for ticketing.This is the Jungle's first season under new management, following the appointment of Christina Baldwin as Artistic Director and
NEWS: Springboard for the Arts Announces Rural Regenerator Fellow Cohort Arts Dance Music Theatre Visual Arts by Twin Cities Arts Reader - August 26, 2021August 26, 2021 The inaugural cohort in Springboard for the Arts' Rural Regenerator Fellowship. Springboard for the Arts announced today its inaugural cohort of Rural Regenerator Fellows. Springboard for the Arts has selected 11 Rural Regenerator Fellows for 2021. All fellows live or work in communities of at most 50,000 people, located across the
PREVIEW: Electric Telescope Theatre’s …And Now This Happens (Phoenix Theater) Arts Theatre by Twin Cities Arts Reader - August 25, 2021 The cast of ...and Now This Happens, which opens Friday at the Phoenix Theater in Minneapolis, MN. Photo by Dan Reiva. What should American theatre look like after George Floyd's death? In a neighborhood where African Americans have continued to die in encounters with law enforcement? In the middle of a
BREAKING NEWS: Boundary Waters Closed Due to Wildfires Lifestyle by Twin Cities Arts Reader - August 21, 2021August 22, 2021 The Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness Area in northern Minnesota. Photo by Josh Hild from Pexels. The Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness Area (BWCA) are now closed due to wildfires. All campers and visitors to the area have been ordered to evacuate.This historic closure of the BWCA – a 1,090,000-acre area of pristine wilderness
NEWS: Collide Theatrical Dance’s Monstrous Decision Arts Dance by Twin Cities Arts Reader - August 14, 2021 A promotional graphic for COLLIDE Theatricals' upcoming production of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, which opens the company's eight season in October. It's been a year and a half of insanity, but COLLIDE Theatrical Dance Company's latest turn is something monstrous. The company's eighth season, announced this week, will open with Frankenstein and close
NEWS: Live Performance COVID-19 Vaccination Requirements Spreading Arts Dance Music Opera Theatre by Twin Cities Arts Reader - August 13, 2021August 14, 2021 A transmission electron microscopic image of an isolate from the first U.S. case of COVID-19, formerly known as 2019-nCoV. The spherical viral particles, colorized blue, contain cross-sections through the viral genome, seen as black dots. Image courtesy of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and generated by Hannah A.
NEWS: Minnesotans Represent in NET Virtual Exchanges Arts Music Theatre by Twin Cities Arts Reader - July 26, 2021July 27, 2021 It's no surprise that Minnesotans can overcome all sorts of inclement weather to connect in deepest winter. So, too, have they been connecting during the COVID-19 pandemic. Six individuals and entities in Minnesota have been awarded Virtual Exploration Grants by the Network of Ensemble Theatres to build theatrical connections with
PREVIEW: Minnesota Boychoir Returns to In-Person Performances Arts Music by Twin Cities Arts Reader - June 14, 2021June 20, 2021 Seventeen months after its last live, in-person performance, the Minnesota Boychoir returns to in-person concerts with a trio of free performances around the Twin Cities on June 16, 17, and 19. The hundred-voiced ensemble last performed together in January 2020, at St. Paul's Landmark Center. Virtual rehearsals kept the group together