FRINGE FILE #3: Amy’s Guide to Day 3 Arts Comedy Dance Music Theatre by Amy Donahue - August 3, 2024August 3, 2024 A collage of selected shows playing on Day 3 of the Minnesota Fringe Festival, which runs through August 11 in Minneapolis, MN. The first Saturday of the Minnesota Fringe Festival is a full, full day if you're trying to see every possible show. If you see every possible show, that's seven shows in
FRINGE FILE #1: Amy’s Guide to Day 1 Arts Comedy Dance Music Theatre by Amy Donahue - August 1, 2024August 1, 2024 A promotional image for Antistrophe to an Andro-Sapphic Tragedy, presented by Greta Mae Meiser – one of more than 100 performing arts offerings in the 31st annual Minnesota Fringe Festival, which runs August 1-11. Today is the opening day of the Minnesota Fringe Festival. Since its inaugural season in 1994, this
PREVIEW: Mixed Precipitation’s Pickup Truck Opera Returns Arts Music Opera Theatre by Amy Donahue - April 15, 2024 Singers Kara Morgan, Corissa Bussian, and Mark Billy in Mixed Precipitation's 2023 operatic production of Romeo and Juliet. In the not-so-distant future, scientist and entrepreneur Dr. Johann Faust faces a planet in crisis but no motivation to spare humanity its fate. He yearns to find a life of meaning and love.
NEWS: Jerome Foundation Announces $5.5 Million in Grants Arts Dance Music Theatre Visual Arts by Amy Donahue - April 11, 2024 Minnesota-based Ananya Dance Theatre (2023's We Are The Procession by Michhil Amra pictured) is one of 79 organizations to receive support from the Jerome Foundation in the coming cycle. ADT's award will underwrite its NextGen Choreolab program for early career, Minnesota-based choreographers. Photo by Canaan Mattson Photography. The Jerome Foundation –
PREVIEW: Ring in the New Year with Murder at the Mystery Café Arts Comedy Theatre by Amy Donahue - January 3, 2024January 3, 2024 In what can only be called the natural result of too many holiday Hallmark Specials, The Mystery Café is now serving murder mysteries over dinner at two Twin Cities area locations. Holidays got you down? Does spending too much enforced time with family make you wish you could, well, kill someone?
PHOTOS: Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical (Children’s Theatre Company) Arts Music Theatre by Amy Donahue - November 10, 2023 The cast of the Children's Theatre Company's 2023 production of Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical, which opens Saturday, November 11, 2023 at the Children's Theatre Company in Minneapolis, MN. Photo by Glenn Stubbe Photography. Scroll through the virtual box office for the Children's Theatre Company production of Dr.
VIDEO: Psychedelics With You, by Leslie Vincent Arts Music by Amy Donahue - October 18, 2023October 18, 2023 If you're indifferent about jazz in a post-Louie Armstrong world, Leslie Vincent's new music video for "Psychedelics with You" might make a convert out of you. The music video for song off her album About Last Night (2023) dropped yesterday, teasing listeners into a world of jazz club vibes, sexy
NEWS: Broken Clock Brewing Co-Op’s New Head Brewer Lifestyle by Amy Donahue - October 17, 2023October 17, 2023 The logo for Broken Clock Brewing Company. Broken Clock Brewing Cooperative has welcomed Shaun Lill as its new Head Brewer. Lill was previously the Head Brewer at HeadFlyer Brewing in Northeast Minneapolis for three years. A graduate of the Brewing and Beer Steward program at Dakota County Technical College, Lill first began
NEWS: 2023 Tony Award Winners Announced Arts Theatre by Amy Donahue - June 12, 2023June 12, 2023 Out of respect for the Writers Guild of America strike, no commentary or photos are included in this piece.Best New Play: LeopoldstadtBest New Musical: Kimberly AkimboBest Play Revival: Topdog/UnderdogBest Musical Revival: Parade Best Leading Actor in a Play: Sean Hayes, Good Night, OscarBest Leading Actress in a Play: Jodie Comer, Prima
REVIEW: Thrilling, Boundary-Pushing Film Score Fest 2023 Arts Movies by Amy Donahue - June 11, 2023June 14, 2023 Charlie McCarron, the Executive Director of the Film Score Fest, introducing a festival film at the History Theatre on Saturday, June 10. Last night, the 2023 incarnation of Film Score Fest debuted at the History Theatre in St. Paul. The screenings of 15 short films with live orchestra showcased an amazing