REVIEW: Sweet, Moving Coming Out in Fun Home (Hennepin Theatre Trust) Arts Dance Music Theatre by Basil Considine - December 14, 2016December 14, 2016 The National Tour Company of Fun Home. Photo by Joan Marcus. Last year, Waitress: The Musical made a splash on Broadway with its excellent score and script and the unusual-for-Broadway combination of an all-female creative and production team. Another show that picked up buzz for an all-female writing team was the excellent Fun Home, which
FEATURE: On Hamilton Arts Dance Music Theatre by Basil Considine - December 13, 2016December 13, 2016 Daveed Diggs as Thomas Jefferson and the ensemble of Hamilton. Last Friday, the Hennepin Theatre Trust delighted Twin Cities theatregoers with a succinct message to its email subscribers: The national tour of the Broadway musical HAMILTON will play the Orpheum Theatre as part of the 2018-2019 Broadway on Hennepin Season. The best way
INTERVIEW: Dieter Bierbrauer on White Christmas Arts Dance Music Theatre by Basil Considine - December 10, 2016December 10, 2016 Brian Sostek as Phil Davis and Dieter Bierbrauer as Bob Wallace in the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts' production of White Christmas. "Will it be a white Christmas?" It's still a little early to answer this perennial question in the Twin Cities, but if you head on over to St. Paul's
NEWS: Ordway Announces 2017-2018 Musicals Arts Dance Music Theatre by Twin Cities Arts Reader - December 8, 2016December 8, 2016 The Ordway Center for the Performing Arts announced today its 2017-2018 Musical Theater Series. This series will be sponsored by Bremer Bank and features four classic shows: Jesus Christ Superstar – July 18-23, 2017 Kinky Boots – August 8-13, 2017 In the Heights – September 12-17, 2017 Annie – December 7-31, 2017 Jesus
PREVIEW: The Look of Fun Home (Hennepin Theatre Trust) Arts Dance Music Theatre by Twin Cities Arts Reader - December 6, 2016 The National Tour Company of Fun Home. Photo by Joan Marcus. Nipping right at the heels of the 2015 Tony Award Winner for Best Play is the 2015 Tony Award Winner for Best Musical: Fun Home. This musical has an unusual origin: it's an adaptation of a graphic novel-memoir by a famous cartoonist, Alison
REVIEW: Victorian Cinderella Revival (Children’s Theatre Company) Arts Dance Music Theatre by Bev Wolfe - November 24, 2016November 25, 2016 Cinderella (Traci Allen Shannon) flees the ball. Photo by Dan Norman. A Victorian Christmas, a vaudeville show, and a romance are all encompassed in the Children’s Theatre Company's latest production of the fairy tale Cinderella. It is a remount of the show that CTC performed during the in 2013-2014 season with many
REVIEW: Rockin’ Old-School Hip Hop Nutcracker (Ordway) Arts Dance by Basil Considine - November 23, 2016December 5, 2016 Photo by United Palace of Cultural Arts. At this point the official Hip Hop Nutcracker tour is rather like the Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Mannheim Steamroller, or the Bolshoi Ballet Nutcracker – you know exactly what you're going to get each year, and that's not such a bad thing. If you're not familiar with Hip Hop
REVIEW: Aging 105 Proof (Transatlantic Love Affair/Illusion Theater) Arts Dance Theatre by Bev Wolfe - November 13, 2016November 13, 2016 The Transatlantic Love Affair Ensemble. Photo by Lauren B Photography. Transatlantic Love Affair’s latest production, 105 Proof or, the Killing of Mack “the Silencer” Klein, opened last week at Illusion Theater. Diogo Lopes directs this expanded version of the original 2015 Minnesota Fringe Festival production. The work delves into the world
REVIEW: Crashing STOMP (Ordway) Arts Dance Music by Dan Reiva - October 30, 2016October 30, 2016 Photo by Steve McNicholas. The performance of this year’s STOMP tour at the Ordway Center in St. Paul, met audience expectations, and then some. It is a most unique theatre experience, being a mix of dance, vaudeville, symphonic percussion, avant-garde theatre, performance art and musique concrète (music from found objects). Like
INTERVIEW: The Last Days of Bedlam, with Maren Ward Arts Dance Music Theatre by Basil Considine - October 21, 2016October 21, 2016 When news broke yesterday of the November 2 closure of Bedlam Lowertown, it didn't take long for Bedlam Theatre's Lowertown and general Facebook pages to start filling up with tributes, thank yous, and laments. Amidst the aftershocks, the scramble to rebook acts, and the general unhappiness, the Twin Cities Arts