Cassie (Roshni Desai), one of the staff at Mr. and Mrs. Darcy's Pemberley estate lights a candle as the holidays return to Jane Austen's world. Photo by Rich Ryan. If you're wondering how big a deal Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice is some two centuries after its publication, consider the
Author: Basil Considine
Basil Considine is the Performing Arts Editor and Senior Classical Music and Drama Critic at the Twin Cities Arts Reader. 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.
REVIEW: The Last Cantus Concert (Of the Year)
A promotional photo of Cantus. Cantus brought its 2018 performances to a close on Sunday with the final installment (for now) of its Christmas with Cantus concerts. The performance featured an array of classic music, some more contemporary numbers such as Joni Mitchell's "The River", and a new vocal work by Catherine Dalton. That
PREVIEW: Welcome to Fight Night
An array of characters from Theatre Coup d'Etat's Fight Night performance series. Photos by Craig James Hostetler. If you saw a poster that said "Celebrity Deathmatch meets Highlander" and promised characters from Miley Cyrus to Darth Vader fighting it out with words, axes, knives, bricks, bats, hand-to-hand, and rubber chickens, you'd probably have a lot
INTERVIEW: Becca Hart on Jungles, Spoonfulls of Sugar, and Returning to the Wolfpack
The cast of the Jungle Theater's 2018 and 2019 productions of The Wolves. Photo by Dan Norman. The Jungle Theater's hit 2018 production of Sarah DeLappe's The Wolves is coming howling back in 2019. In a bit of sleight of hand, however, the January 31-February 17 revival jumps from the company's longtime home in Uptown
INTERVIEW: Catherine Dalton and Rough Cuts at Nautilus Music-Theater
PREVIEW: Les Misérables Prepares to Throw Up Its Barricade on Hennepin (HTT)
INTERVIEW: Laila Robins on The Children and Returning to the Twin Cities
PREVIEW: Teen Idol Mania in The Bobby Vee Story (History Theatre)
FEATURE: On the Launch of The Book of Mormon
INTERVIEW: Mill City Summer Opera’s New Artistic Director
Crystal Manich, the recently named Artistic Director of Mill City Summer Opera. Photo by Laura Marie Duncan. Next summer, Mill City Summer Opera will open its festival season under new leadership: Crystal Manich, the company's recently named artistic director. Manich has directed operas across the United States and in far-off cities