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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.

NEWS: Illusion Theater Shakes the Inkwell

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"Fresh ink is the opposite of stale ink" – an old printer's proverb. The Illusion Theater's Fresh Ink Series has been going for a long time. How long? 33 years young, pivoting periodically to align itself with the needs of the time and the changing populations that it serves. After all, the

NEWS: Minnesota Opera Cancels Traditional 2020-2021 Season, Plans Outdoor and Digital Fall 2020

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The operatic adaptation of Stephen King's The Shining is one of several productions missing in Minnesota Opera's recently retooled 2020-2021 season plans. Photo by Theresa Murray. Minnesota Opera announced today that the company is discarding its 2020-2021 season plans in favor of a retooled outdoor/digital fall season and a still-to-be-announced slate

NEWS: Doors Open Minneapolis Photo Contest

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An excerpt from the Doors Open Minneapolis virtual tour of historic buildings. It's not just the weather that's getting changing. After weeks of self-isolation and streets even emptier than the dead of winter, the Twin Cities are visibly filling with people outside. Masks, yes, and socially distanced, yes, but the springtime

NEWS: Jungle Theater Head Departing for Storied New Jersey Theatre

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The McCarter Theatre Center in Princeton, New Jersey, located on the campus of Princeton University. The Jungle Theater announced a major leadership change today. Artistic Director Sarah Rasmussen, who has led the theatre in Uptown Minneapolis for the past five years, will leave the company in May to head the McCarter

VIDEO: Dixie Chicks Return with “Gaslighter”

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A promotional image of the Dixie Chicks. The Dixie Chicks are back! It's been a long time since the Dixie Chicks really made the news. Seventeen years after some on-stage remarks about the U.S. invasion of Iraq sent the band's commercial success into a tailspin, the female trio is back with a

MOVIE REVIEW: Escapist Fantasy Ass-Kicking in Birds of Prey

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Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie, center) is the center of the new comic book universe action movie Birds of Prey (DC Films/Warner Brothers). The voluminously titled Birds of Prey: The Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn is the antithesis of the recent Joker. Both are based on DC Comics properties and were

NEWS: Ordway’s SIX Heading to Broadway

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The musical SIX. Photo by Liz Lauren, courtesy of Chicago Shakespeare Theater. A musical exploration of the wives of Henry VIII is heading straight from the Ordway to Broadway. SIX, a new musical by Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss, will play at the Ordway from November 29 to December 22, 2019.

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