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Author: Amy Donahue

Amy Donahue is a staff reviewer at the Twin Cities Arts Reader. She interned with the magazine during the summer of 2017, served as a guest contributor while studying abroad in Europe that fall, and has moved up to regular old reviewing. She admits to being at least 50% terrified of contemporary German opera.

PHOTOS: Open Window Theatre’s Leaving Iowa

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The cast of Open Window Theatre's production of Leaving Iowa, which opened April 29 in Inver Grove Heights, MN. Photo by Kayla Ninnemann. There is a great population reshuffling going on in the United States. In 2020 and 2021, numerous households fled the big cities for larger in-door spaces and outdoor

PREVIEW: The Return of the Spotlight Showcase (Hennepin Theatre Trust)

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A promotional image for the Hennepin Theatre Trust's Spotlight Education Spotlight Showcase event. The Spotlight Showcase, Minnesota high school theater’s biggest night, returns to the historic State Theatre in Minneapolis this June. This two-evening affair organized by the Hennepin Theatre Trust unites high school theater students from across the state for

PREVIEW: The Rape of Lucretia (An Opera Theatre)

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Lucretia (mezzo-soprano Kara Morgan) holds a laurel wreath – symbolizing honor in ancient Roman society – in An Opera Theatre's production of The Rape of Lucretia, which opens this evening at the Southern Theater in Minneapolis, MN. Photo courtesy of An Opera Theatre. Twin Cities opera fans have a lot of choices in

PREVIEW: Weekly Concert Picks: Post-Thanksgiving to Christmas

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The Champagne Drops (Emily Dussault, left; Leslie Vincent, right) will make their debut on Crooners' Mainstage in Fridley, Minnesota on December 19. A dinner with family might make you feel clammily, but a concert a week makes you feel pretty chic.  Aphorisms and strained rhymes notwithstanding, Thanksgiving marks the formal start of

BREAKING NEWS: Brand New Minneapolis School of New Music Abruptly Closes

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A message from Minneapolis School of New Music founder Bart Johnson on the school's closure. The Minneapolis School of New Music has closed. The charter school, which opened its doors this fall, promised middle school children a tuition-free, music-immersive curriculum. Founder Bart Johnson cited the resignations of 2 of the school'

PREVIEW: The Playwrights’ Center’s 50th Anniversary Season

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The Playwrights' Center launched its first detailed look at its 50th Anniversary Season last night with its Taste of the Season preview. While in normal times, the Taste of the Season has served as an in-person, hybrid fundraiser and preview, due to ongoing public health conditions it went online this

PREVIEW: Opera on the Lake Strikes Back

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It's summer in Minnesota, which means it's officially Lake Time. By the lake, in the lake, on the lake – we're not the Land of 10,000 Lakes for nothing. This makes the return of the Opera on the Lake festival to Lake Como this week as natural as sweet corn at

NEWS: Christina Baldwin to Take Reins at Jungle Theater

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Christina Baldwin, the Jungle Theater's newest Artistic Director. Christina Baldwin has been appointed as permanent Artistic Director of the Jungle Theater, a storied theater located on Lyndale near Lake Street in Uptown Minneapolis. Baldwin is the company's third permanent Artistic Director, succeeding Sarah Rasmussen and founder Bain Boehlke. Baldwin is no stranger

NEWS: Yellow Tree Theatre Appoints New Artistic Director

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A graphic showing the word "Succession" with a crown.

Osseo, MN-based Yellow Tree Theatre has appointed Austene Van as its next Producing Artistic Director. Van will succeed founders Jason Peterson and Jessica Lind Peterson, who formed the regional theatre powerhouse in 2008. Austene Van is a multi-talented theatre professional with more than three decades' experience in the performing arts as

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