REVIEW: Stirring The Planet – A Lament (PROTOTYPE Festival) Arts Dance Music Opera Theatre by Amy Donahue - January 15, 2021January 15, 2021 A video still from Garin Nugroho’s The Planet – A Lament, now playing in the 2021 virtual incarnation of the PROTOTYPE festival. It was with profound jealousy that I first learned of the PROTOTYPE festival of new music-theatre works. My editor had traveled to New York City to see the festival
NEWS: Hennepin Theatre Trust’s New 2021-2022 Season Arts Dance Music Theatre by Twin Cities Arts Reader - January 14, 2021January 14, 2021 The cast of Hamilton, one of 12 musicals in the redesigned 2021-2022 season announced today by the Hennepin Theatre Trust. Photo by Joan Marcus. The Hennepin Theatre Trust announced its 2021-2022 season today. After numerous cancellations due to COVID-19, 11 of the 12 planned Broadways shows – plus an addition –
INTERVIEW: Taking the Multi-Site PROTOTYPE Festival Online in a Pandemic Arts Dance Music Opera Theatre by Basil Considine - January 8, 2021January 15, 2021 A visual collage of six works featured in the 2021 PROTOTYPE festival. Clockwise from upper left: TIMES3, Wide Slumber Lepidopteris, Ocean Body, The Planet – A Lament, Modulation, and The Murder of Halit Yozgat. For lovers of new music-theatre, there are few events more exciting than the annual PROTOTYPE festival held
VIDEO: Collide and Constantine Maroulis in “She’s Just Rock N’ Roll” Arts Dance Music by Amy Donahue - September 1, 2020September 1, 2020 Downtown Minneapolis, construction and all, features prominently as the backdrop of COLLIDE Theatrical's latest music video. What do you do after you've competed on American Idol, been nominated for a Tony Award for Best Performance for rocking out, and developed a murderous split stage personality that got you a Drama League
BREAKING NEWS: SPCO, Guthrie, Latte Da, MN Opera, Children’s Theatre Company, More Suspend Programming Arts Dance Music Opera Theatre by Twin Cities Arts Reader - March 13, 2020March 14, 2020 A 17th-century plague doctor wearing a mask equipped with long breathing tubes and spices to drive away foul aromas, which were thought to convey sickness. A host of local arts organizations have cancelled or suspended performances and other programming. The Children's Theatre Company, the Guthrie Theater, Minnesota Opera, Saint Paul Chamber
REVIEW: Sterling Music Man Marches Back to Town (Channhassen Dinner Theatres) Arts Dance Music Theatre by Basil Considine - March 7, 2020March 7, 2020 Winthrop (Hugo Mallaney) receives a brand-new cornet in Chanhassen Dinner Theatre's The Music Man, now playing in Chanhassen, MN. Photo by Dan Norman. You might wonder what a musical written in 1957 has to say about the present day. Then come the famous lyrics – "Ya got trouble – right here in
PHOTOS: My Fair Lady Opens at the Orpheum (Hennepin Theatre Trust) Arts Dance Music Theatre by Twin Cities Arts Reader - March 4, 2020March 4, 2020 Laird Mackintosh as Professor Henry Higgins, Gayton Scott as Mrs. Pearce, Adam Grupper as Alfred P. Doolittle, Kevin Pariseau as Colonel Pickering, and Shereen Ahmed as Eliza Doolittle in the national tour of My Fair Lady, now playing at the Orpheum Theatre in Minneapolis. Photo by Joan Marcus. The national tour
REVIEW: Delightful Children’s Hour in Bob Marley’s Three Little Birds (Children’s Theatre Company) Arts Dance Music Theatre by Bev Wolfe - February 29, 2020March 4, 2020 Lynnea Doublette, Ellis M. Dossavi Alipoeh, and Kory LaQuess Pullam in the Children's Theatre Company production of Bob Marley’s Three Little Birds. Photo by Glen Stubbe Photography. A bit of Jamaica is available at Children’s Theatre with its production of Bob Marley’s Three Little Birds. The play is based on a
REVIEW: Stellar, Riveting Romeo & Juliet (COLLIDE) Arts Dance Music by Basil Considine - February 16, 2020February 17, 2020 Renee Guittar (Juliet) and Rush Benson (Romeo) in a promotional image for COLLIDE Theatrical's ballet adaptation of Romeo & Juliet. Staging what is often described as the greatest love story ever told on Valentine's Day might sound hokey. COLLIDE Theatrical's ballet setting of William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet is anything but:
REVIEW: Striking, Grim Bernarda Alba (Theater Latté Da) Arts Dance Music Theatre by Bev Wolfe - February 4, 2020February 4, 2020 Stephanie Bertuman and the cast of Theater Latté Da's Bernarda Alba, now playing at the Ritz Theater in Minneapolis, MN. Photo by Dan Norman. For decades, the Spanish playwright Federico García Lorca's last play, The House of Bernarda Alba (1936), has been a staple of regional, community, and educational theatres across