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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 served as interim Editor-in-Chief in 2023. She admits to being at least 50% terrified of contemporary German opera.

INTERVIEW: Jenny LeDoux and Nautilus’ Bluestem

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A promotional image for Nautilus Music-Theater's Rough Cuts reading of Bluestem, a new music theater piece by Eric Anderson and Kim Sherman. One of the best-kept secrets in the Twin Cities is Nautilus Music-Theater's Rough Cuts series – a chance to see riveting, intimate performances of material for the highly affordable

NEWS: Arena Stage Honors Sen. Klobuchar with American Voice Award

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Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater, a vaunted Washington, DC-area theatre, presented the American Voice Award to Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) on Thursday, April 10, 2025. The award presentation took place as part of Arena Stage's opening night celebration for the world-premiere production of Larissa FastHorse’s Fake

NEWS: Tamara Kangas Erickson Appointed New Head of Chanhassen Dinner Theatres

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Tamara Kangas Erickson has been appointed the new President and Artistic Director of Chanhassen Dinner Theatres.

Tamara Kangas Erickson has been appointed the new President and Artistic Director of Chanhassen Dinner Theatres.Photo courtesy of Chanhassen Dinner Theatres. The Board of Directors of Chanhassen Dinner Theatres (CDT) today announced the appointment of Tamara Kangas Erickson as its new President and Artistic Director. This appointment follows the passing of

NEWS: Cancellations Continue to Roll The Kennedy Center

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The ceiling of The Kennedy Center's Opera House in Washington, DC. Photo by Ron Blunt, courtesy of The Kennedy Center. Disruptions continue to spawn at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, long one of the nation's leading arts institutions in Washington, DC. The celebrated opera Fellow Travelers – which

PREVIEW: Twin Cities Gay Men’s Chorus – Icicle Tour

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A promotional image for the Twin Cities Gay Men’s Chorus's Out Of The Closet & Into The Burbs tour. The Twin Cities Gay Men’s Chorus (TCGMC) is hitting the road later this month, on a mission of “building community through music”. This late winter tour is specifically designed to bring TCGMC

PREVIEW: Life of Pi (Hennepin Arts)

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Pictured: Taha Mandviwala, Toussaint Jeanlouis, Shiloh Goodin, Anna Leigh Gortner, Sinclair Mitchell, Rishi Jaiswal, and Betsy Rosen, bringing to life a scene in the play Life of Pi, which opens March 4 at the Orpheum Theatre in Minneapolis. Photo by Evan Zimmerman for MurphyMade. Life of Pi is a best-selling novel, a

NEWS: Innovations in Violin Recording

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The Digitaize String Module, an innovative product for string instrument recording and performance that launched today at the NAMM industry show. Queen's legendary recording of "Bohemian Rhapsody" was famously multi-tracked, with more than a hundred separately layered audio channels layered in some sections. This meticulous studio work – often involving individually

FEATURE: An Engine for New Opera

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Mezzo-soprano and composer Lisa Neher (left), pianist Jodi Goble (center), and soprano Maggie Burr (right) rehearse music from the forthcoming opera murder mystery Kitchen/Wedding/Murder at the Mindekirken in Minneapolis, MN. The church sanctuary features an altarpiece by August Klagstad in the background. In October 2022, the Norwegian Lutheran Memorial Church in

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