NEWS: Minnesota Opera Cancels Traditional 2020-2021 Season, Plans Outdoor and Digital Fall 2020 Arts Music Opera Theatre by Amy Donahue - July 28, 2020July 28, 2020 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 Arts Lifestyle Visual Arts by Amy Donahue - May 4, 2020May 5, 2020 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 Arts Theatre by Amy Donahue - April 23, 2020April 23, 2020 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” Arts Music by Amy Donahue - March 4, 2020March 8, 2020 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 Arts Movies by Amy Donahue - February 8, 2020February 8, 2020 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
REVIEW: The Unadvertised Jesus Christ Superstar Concert Experience (Orpheum Theatre) Arts Dance Music Theatre by Amy Donahue - January 24, 2020January 26, 2020 The national touring company of Jesus Christ Superstar, playing through Sunday, 1/26 at the Orpheum Theatre in Minneapolis. Photo by Matthew Murphy. The tour of Jesus Christ Superstar, now playing at the Orpheum Theatre in Minneapolis, has a lot in common with last month's run of Six at the Ordway. If you
NEWS: Ordway’s SIX Heading to Broadway Arts Dance Music Theatre by Amy Donahue - August 1, 2019August 2, 2019 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.
REVIEW: Inspired Readings in Leaves of Grass (Guthrie Theater) Arts Dance Theatre by Amy Donahue - July 16, 2019July 26, 2019 An illustration by Margaret C. Cook for a 1913 edition of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass, the subject of a recent play of the same name by Patrick Scully at the Guthrie Theater. 2019 marks the bicentennial of Walt Whitman's birth. The American poet's long shadow still tinges much of American
Fringe File #2: The Overachiever’s Plan for Day 1 of the Minnesota Fringe Festival Arts Dance Music Theatre by Amy Donahue - July 9, 2019July 10, 2019 A collage of show images from the 2019 Minnesota Fringe Festival. There are many different ways to approach to the Minnesota Fringe Festival, the Twin Cities' annual performing arts binge extravaganza. Mine has two rules. The first? Park once, move never. The second? Variety. Rule 1 means that, once I've parked my
BREAKING NEWS: Rose Ensemble Aborts Planned Closure Arts Music by Amy Donahue - June 24, 2019June 29, 2019 The Rose Ensemble announced last June that the much-decorated vocal ensemble would fade away at the end of the present season, citing declining revenues. Today, the Rose Ensemble delighted fans by announcing that its planned sunset would not actually take place. Thanks to an outpouring of fundraising and audience support,