PREVIEW: National Puppetry Festival Arts Music Opera Theatre by Bev Wolfe - July 17, 2017July 17, 2017 Mousetrap Puppets' Punch and Judy features the classic comedy characters. Mousetrap Puppets' show and another Punch and Judy by Parasol Puppets play are free Saturday events, playing at 1:15 PM and 2:45 PM. This week features pageantry and puppets all week long at the National Puppetry Festival 2017 being held at Concordia University in St.
PHOTOS: A Mill City Summer Opera Retrospective Arts Music Opera Theatre Visual Arts by Twin Cities Arts Reader - July 16, 2017July 15, 2017 Eric Morris as Beppe, Jill Gardner as Nedda, Richard Crawley as Canio, and Andrew Wilkowske as Tonio in the Mill City Summer Opera's inaugural 2012 production of Pagliacci at the Mill City Ruins. Mill City Summer Opera's latest summer extravaganza, María de Buenos Aires, is currently playing at The Machine Factory while
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
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
INTERVIEW: Venessa Fuentes and Dameun Strange on Mother King Arts Music Opera Theatre by Basil Considine - July 10, 2017July 10, 2017 The cast of Mother King in rehearsal. On the 1st of July 1974, an organist at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, was shot and killed by a deranged man who burst into the sanctuary. The victim, Alberta Christine Williams King, was an active church leader and NAACP member, the founder of
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
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
THE CURMUDGEON: Vol. 2 – Who is in this show? Arts Dance Music Opera The Curmudgeon Theatre Visual Arts by Basil Considine - July 6, 2017July 6, 2017 Dear Press Release Writer, Nice minimalist press release! You had full contact info and all the details there about when and where the performance will take place – good start! However, it says nothing about who's in it or who wrote it. In fact, the only name at all included in the
THE CURMUDGEON: Vol. 1 – How Should We Contact You? Arts Dance Music Opera The Curmudgeon Theatre Visual Arts by Basil Considine - July 5, 2017July 19, 2017 Dear _____ Company, Lovely press release with a note to request tickets through the contact form on your website (Strike 1). I can't help notice that you sent this from a do-not-reply address (Strike 2) and that your website does not have a clearly labeled contact form (Strike 3) or any
ANNOUNCEMENT: The Curmudgeon Arts Dance Music Opera Theatre Visual Arts by Hanne Appelbaum - July 4, 2017July 6, 2017 The Arts Reader is pleased to announce the launch of a new column titled The Curmudgeon, in which our writers will share constructively snarky advice on public relations in the arts. There are many reasons for launching The Curmudgeon. The first is that we have received many requests via email and social media for