Jamecia Bennett headlined the opening of Crooners Supper Club's new outdoor space on Friday evening. If you had a brand-new outdoor venue to commission, who would you hire? Do you need a Grammy Award-winning local artist who can sing the blues, sing the soul, and scat through jazz? If so, call
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REVIEW: Stirring The Planet – A Lament (PROTOTYPE Festival)
NEWS: Hennepin Theatre Trust’s New 2021-2022 Season
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 –
NEWS: Crooners to Reopen Jan. 28
Cocktails sit on the bar in a summer promotional photo from Crooners Supper Club in Fridley, MN. The Fridley, MN-based Crooners Supper Club will reopen January 28. Like other dining entities across the state, Crooners has been closed since November 20; by the time it reopens two weeks from today, it
NEWS: Chanhassen Dinner Theatres to Resume Concerts & Comedy Jan. 15
Michael Gruber (as traveling conman Harold Hill) and Ann Michels (as Marian Paroo) in Chanhassen Dinner Theatres' The Music Man, whose performances were suspended in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Photo by Dan Norman. Chanhassen Dinner Theatres announced today that it will resume its live concerts and comedy shows beginning
INTERVIEW: Taking the Multi-Site PROTOTYPE Festival Online in a Pandemic
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
NEWS: SPCO Cancels Live Concerts through June 2021
A 2015 SPCO performance at the Ordway Concert Hall in Saint Paul, MN. Photo by Ash & James Photography. The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra announced today that all regular, in-person concerts will be suspended through June 2021. The announcement comes as the number of COVID-19 cases is increasing rapidly across the
FEATURE: Back to the Theatre: Fortune’s Fool and St. Croix Retaking Stages
Heidi Garrido is one of 22 artists featured in Fortune's Fool Theatre's production of To Breed, or Not to Breed, opening tonight at the Crane Theater in Northeast Minneapolis. Photo by Jace Garrido-Edington for HM Photography. It's a morning that has Americans waiting on the edge of their seats – the
VIDEO: Cantus Sings Ola Gjeilo’s Ubi Caritas
The members of the Cantus vocal ensemble. As with Major League Baseball, so with Cantus: the award-winning vocal ensemble is back at work after following a strict period of quarantine. Unlike Major League Baseball, however, there haven't been any quarantine jumpers to sow confusion and potential sickness in the ranks. And
PREVIEW: Cutthroat Rivalries, Horror, Music Conservatories in Nocturne
A promotional image for the psychohorror drama film Nocturne (2020). Sibling rivalry. A book of secrets. A cutthroat music conservatory. Something supernatural shifting the balance of power. These are a few of the elements in Nocturne, a Netflix Original movie dropping on October 15.Nocturne tells the story of twin sisters at a