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Author: Basil Considine

Basil Considine was the Editor of the Twin Cities Arts Reader from 2018-2022. He served as Performing Arts Editor and Senior Classical Music and Drama Critic for the Arts Reader's first five years, before succeeding Hanne Appelbaum. He was previously the Resident Classical Music and Drama Critic at the Twin Cities Daily Planet and remains an occasional contributing writer for The Boston Musical Intelligencer and The Chattanoogan. He holds a PhD in Music and Drama from Boston University, an MTS in Sacred Music from the BU School of Theology, and a BA in Music and Theatre from the University of San Diego. Basil was named one of Musical America's 30 Professionals of the Year in 2017. He was previously the Regional Governor for the National Opera Association's North Central Region and the 2021-2022 U.S. Fulbright Faculty Scholar to Madagascar.

FRINGE FILE #17: INTERVIEW – Dawn Bentley on The Quiet Piggy and Helming Fringe

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A promotional image for The Quiet Piggy, one of 104 shows at the 2026 Minnesota Fringe Festival, which launches Thursday. It would be nigh on impossible to accuse Dawn Bentley, Executive Director of the Minnesota Fringe Festival, of lacking in talents. Over the years, she's checked off a biochemistry degree, bodybuilding,

FRINGE FILE #16 – INTERVIEW: r. d. rhobajt and the Shoes & Socks & Coats Show

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The official show image for Socks & Shoes & Coats by rick rhobajt widen, one of 104 shows playing at the 2026 Minnesota Fringe Festival.. The Minnesota Fringe Festival has never shied away from life’s larger questions, but most shows don't come with quite so many pediatric appointments, preschool anxieties, and

FRINGE FILE #13: INTERVIEW – Christy Johnson and the Radiant Ember in the Theatre

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The official show photo for Black and Foxy Co's cabaret Ember, which plays at the University of Minnesota's Rarig Kilburn Theatre as part of the 2026 Minnesota Fringe Festival. What does a theatre producer do? In short, oversee everything – financial, logistics, creative, and anything else that needs nudging, nurturing, prodding,

FRINGE FILE #11: INTERVIEW – Paul Andrew Willis, Jr. and The Importance of Being Eternal

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Script pages for The Importance of Being Eternal, a literary parody that Little Apple Theatre Company brings to the Minnesota Fringe Festival August 8-15. The Importance of Being Earnest, an 1895 play by Oscar Wilde, has been the subject of innumerable productions, classes, and adaptations. Its script is filled with highly

FRINGE FILE #8: INTERVIEW – Phillip Andrew Bennett Low on A Revolution Highly Favorable

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The official show image for A Revolution Highly Favorable, presented by Maximum Verbosity at the Strike Theater in Northeast Minneapolis from August 8-15, as part of the 2026 Minnesota Fringe Festival. The United States is currently two years into the America 250 anniversary of the American Revolution, an occasion that has

FRINGE FILE #7: INTERVIEW – Multidisciplinary Theatremaker Kyle Dekker and Witness Loudly

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The official show image for Kind Fool Theater's production of Witness Loudly by Kyle B. Dekker, which runs from August 7-16 at Strike Theater in Northeast Minneapolis as part of the 2026 Minnesota Fringe Festival. Critiquing recent and contemporary events is a hallowed tradition in the arts, ranging from epic poetry

FRINGE FILE #6: INTERVIEW – Actor Robin Carlisle on A Real Piece of Work and Falling Into Fringe

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The official Fringe photo for A Real Piece of Work, which runs at the Theatre in the Round from August 8-16 as part of the 2026 Minnesota Fringe Festival. Mocking theatre – gently, lovingly, acerbically, and more – is a long-established tradition going back to Classical Greece. The playwright Aristophanes, writing in

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