PREVIEW: The Old Log’s Plan to Get Away With Murder Arts Dance Music Theatre by Basil Considine - September 12, 2019September 12, 2019 A promotional image for the musical A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, which begins previews October 18 at the Old Log Theatre in Excelsior, MN. It's not every day that a theatre plans to commit mass murder and get away with it. However, the Old Log Theatre – a longtime
NEWS: Chanhassen Dinner Theatres to Bring Trouble, Pool to River City Arts Dance Music Theatre by Twin Cities Arts Reader - September 4, 2019September 4, 2019 There's going to trouble in River City. (Well, technically, Chanhassen.) And pool. And singing in the library. "What's that?" you say – is this a flash mob invasion? No, far from it – although there'll certainly be singers and dancers showing up out of nowhere and prancing down the aisles. It's
REVIEW: Lackluster Rent Crashes at the Orpheum (Hennepin Theatre Trust) Arts Dance Music Theatre by Basil Considine - August 15, 2019August 23, 2019 The cast of the National Tour of Rent, now playing at the Orpheum Theatre in Minneapolis. Photo by Carol Rosegg. After 24 years, there's not exactly a lot new to say about Rent. This award-winning musical was written by Jonathan Larson as a paean to a rapidly vanishing part of New York
Fringe File #17: The 2nd Annual Golden Lanyard Awards Arts Comedy Dance Music Theatre by Basil Considine - August 12, 2019August 12, 2019 Last night, the Minnesota Fringe Festival announced the recipients of the 2nd Annual Golden Lanyard Awards. These awards honor, among other things, the best-selling shows in each venue, several audience and artist voting categories, and Fringe staff favorites. A total of 28 awards were bestowed on 23 shows and 1
Fringe File #16: The Arts Reader Awards Arts Comedy Dance Music Theatre by Hanne Appelbaum - August 10, 2019August 12, 2019 The Minnesota Fringe Festival's annual domination of the Arts Reader's coverage is almost complete. Each year, for a period of around six weeks, coverage of the region's largest performing arts festival takes over our homepage. This focus reflects a larger action in the industry: many theatres and musical organizations simply choose
Fringe File #15: Mini-Reviews #4 Arts Comedy Dance Theatre by Twin Cities Arts Reader - August 9, 2019August 9, 2019 A collage of promotional images for shows discussed in this article. Note: So as to capture different reviewers' varying perspectives, the Arts Reader sometimes reviews the same show twice. Chisago Haute Dish Productions parodies the musical Chicago, by changing the story from two female killers in Chicago, to an Orlando, Florida woman who
Fringe File #14: Mini-Reviews #3 Arts Comedy Dance Music Theatre by Twin Cities Arts Reader - August 6, 2019August 9, 2019 A collage of promotional images of shows reviewed in this article. All is Bright Five years after its last Minnesota Fringe appearance, the New York City-based Shelby Company is back with a hilarious new comedy. Underneath All is Bright's "people talking at a bar" schtick is a powerful comedy executed with exquisite
Fringe File #13: Mini-Reviews #2 Arts Dance Music Theatre by Twin Cities Arts Reader - August 4, 2019August 4, 2019 A collage of promotional images for shows reviewed in this article. Saturday saw the first officially sold out performance of the 2019 Minnesota Fringe Festival, The Winding Sheet Outfit's You Are Cordially Invited to the Life and Death of Edward Lear. Hot on its heels was Devious Mechanics' Edith Gets High,
Fringe File #10: The Out-of-Town Previews Arts Comedy Dance Music Theatre by Twin Cities Arts Reader - August 1, 2019August 2, 2019 A collage of promotional images from the Minnesota Fringe Festival's out-of-town preview event. 'Twas the night before Fringe, and all through the house, there were squeakings and stirrings of Mr/Ms Theatre Mouse. The last step in the Minnesota Fringe Festival's preview process is in many ways one of the most exciting:
NEWS: Ordway’s SIX Heading to Broadway Arts Dance Music Theatre by Amy Donahue - August 1, 2019August 2, 2019 The musical SIX. Photo by Liz Lauren, courtesy of Chicago Shakespeare Theater. A musical exploration of the wives of Henry VIII is heading straight from the Ordway to Broadway. SIX, a new musical by Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss, will play at the Ordway from November 29 to December 22, 2019.