Fringe File 2017, #5: The Money Arts Dance Music Opera Theatre by Basil Considine - July 18, 2017July 21, 2017 Our popular Fringe File series on the Minnesota Fringe Festival returns. Pictured: Max Wojtanowicz in a promotional photo for MN Fringe 2016's Ball: A Tribute to My Lost Testicle. A Fringe show may begin with the first glimmer of an idea or the drawing of its number, but its first incarnation ends with the money.
THE CURMUDGEON: Vol. 5 – The Five Sins of Publicity Photos Arts Dance Music Opera The Curmudgeon Theatre Visual Arts by Amy Donahue - July 15, 2017July 15, 2017 Photo by Markus Spiske. It happens to us all the time: someone submits a press kit or request for reviews, we're intrigued and thinking about possibilities – and find that the photos are just unsuitable for publication purposes. There are many different ways that this can happen, so here's a list
REVIEW: Splendid Hit Parade in Motown: The Musical (Orpheum/Hennepin Theatre Trust) Arts Dance Music Theatre by Ali O'Reilly - July 13, 2017July 14, 2017 Gabriella Whiting (Florence Ballard), Allison Semmes (Diana Ross), and Tavia Riveé (Mary Wilson) in Motown: The Musical. Photo by Joan Marcus. Motown: The Musical returned to the Orpheum July 11th. The musical – which follows the story of Berry Gordy, Jr. and his iconic hit-making enterprise – includes more than 60 beloved hits
PREVIEW: Steamy Accordion Tango in María de Buenos Aires (Mill City Summer Opera) Arts Dance Music Opera Theatre Visual Arts by Basil Considine - July 13, 2017July 13, 2017 Catalina Cuervo as María in a 2014 Syracuse Opera production of María de Buenos Aires. Photo by Douglas Lee Wonders. Mill City Summer Opera's upcoming María de Buenos Aires was written by Astor Piazzola, one of the most renown tango composers of the 20th Century. If that seems an odd pedigree for
FRINGE 2017: Coverage Roundup Arts Dance Music Theatre by Twin Cities Arts Reader - July 11, 2017July 21, 2017 Minnesota Tamil Sangam's The Intrepid, a dance musical extravaganza. This page shows all content published by the Twin Cities Arts Reader related to the 2017 Minnesota Fringe Festival. For our broader MN Fringe coverage (i.e., not restricted to a specific festival season), see: http://twincitiesarts.com/tag/fringe/ Disclosure The majority of the Arts Reader staff are engaged in the
Fringe File 2017, #3: Minnesota Fringe’s First Official Preview of 2017 Arts Dance Music Theatre by Hanne Appelbaum - July 11, 2017July 21, 2017 Aidan Jhane Gallivan in Swing and a Miss's production of A Murmur of Murder. Fringe is coming. Minnesota's nationally renown festival of experimental performing art opens on August 3rd, but local audiences can get sneak peeks at 30 of the 167 shows next Monday. Each of these 30 local companies will
REVIEW: Glensheen is Murderously Good (History Theatre) Arts Dance Music Theatre by Basil Considine - July 10, 2017July 11, 2017 Sandra Strughers, Gary Briggle, Jen Maren, Ruthie Baker, and Adam Qualls re-enact an iconic photo moment in the Glensheen murders scandal. Photo by Scott Pakudaitis. A year and a half ago, I heard that a murder mystery of a musical set in Duluth was making a killing at the History Theatre.
THE CURMUDGEON: Vol. 4 – Lack of BCC Arts Dance Music Opera The Curmudgeon Theatre Visual Arts by Hanne Appelbaum - July 8, 2017July 8, 2017 Dear Sir/Madam, I have emailed you this message with all the other recipients' email addresses in the To and/or CC fields. You will now receive lots of responses intended for me from everyone else on this list whose email client defaults to Reply All. You're welcome for the spamming! ~Your Solicitor There's a scene in
PREVIEW: Motown: The Musical (Orpheum Theatre/HTT) Arts Dance Music Theatre by Twin Cities Arts Reader - July 7, 2017July 7, 2017 Jarran Muse as Marvin Gaye in Motown: The Musical. Photo by Joan Marcus. The 2016-2017 Bank of America Broadway on Hennepin Season comes to a close on July 17th. This season hosted by the Hennepin Theatre Trust will go out with a retro bang with Motown: The Musical, which plays at the Orpheum Theatre in
THE CURMUDGEON: Vol. 3 – Photos and the Visual Arts Arts Dance Music Opera The Curmudgeon Theatre Visual Arts by Basil Considine - July 7, 2017July 8, 2017 The above blank image is like a student copying Kandinsky's white canvas for a class assignment: it says nothing. This is usually not what is desired. Dear Visual Artist PR Person, Thank you for your recent email. While you certainly used a great number of words to describe art created in an