NEWS: St. Olaf College Sells Out Christmas Festival Arts Music by Twin Cities Arts Reader - November 26, 2024December 1, 2024 A past offering of St. Olaf College's sold-out Christmas Festival mainstage performances. Photo courtesy of St. Olaf Collage. St. Olaf College in Northfield, MN has sold out its annual Christmas Festival. The 3-day performance series, which has taken place since 1912, features nearly 500 student musicians. More than 8,000 audience members
FRINGE FILE #8: The Golden Lanyard Awards Arts Comedy Dance Music Theatre by Twin Cities Arts Reader - August 13, 2024August 13, 2024 The main Minnesota Fringe Festival is now over, with a few encore performances to follow. Over 11 days, the festival's 31st incarnation presented more than 500 performances and more than 20,000 butts-in-seats. At its closing night party, the Golden Lanyard Awards were distributed to 28 shows and 2 individuals. For the
FRINGE FILE #6: Reviews, Pt. 3 Arts Comedy Dance Music Theatre by Twin Cities Arts Reader - August 10, 2024August 11, 2024 According to the Minnesota Fringe Festival, the following shows are sell-out risks for today: 5 x 5 by Transatlantic Love Affair @ 2:30 p.m. (Open Eye Theatre) A Horse Walks Out Onto the Stage and Dies by Theatre on the Rocks @ 2:30 p.m. (Phoenix Theater) Seance Sisters (Rebecca Wickert) The Fox sisters
FRINGE FILE #5: Reviews, Pt. 2 Arts Music Opera Theatre by Twin Cities Arts Reader - August 9, 2024August 11, 2024 Daddy Issues (Pretend Productions) A well-told bio-play, delivered in riveting form, by the skilled Allison Vincent. A moving exploration of family relationships, memory, and decline. Gasthaus (Trompe l'Oeil) An interesting Cold War era history piece at the dividing line border of East and West Germany that goes through the gasthaus itself. This of course complicates
FRINGE FILE #4: Reviews, Pt. 1 Arts Comedy Dance Music Theatre by Twin Cities Arts Reader - August 4, 2024August 4, 2024 According to the Minnesota Fringe Festival, today's sell-out risk is: 5 x 5 by Transatlantic Love Affair @ 5:30 p.m. (Open Eye Theatre) 5 x 5 (Transatlantic Love Affair) Literally compact, beautifully flowing, this set of five miniatures tells uses TLA's trademark style where actors become not just the cast, but also scenery,
FRINGE FILE #3: Amy’s Guide to Day 3 Arts Comedy Dance Music Theatre by Amy Donahue - August 3, 2024August 3, 2024 A collage of selected shows playing on Day 3 of the Minnesota Fringe Festival, which runs through August 11 in Minneapolis, MN. The first Saturday of the Minnesota Fringe Festival is a full, full day if you're trying to see every possible show. If you see every possible show, that's seven shows in
FRINGE FILE #2: John’s Guide to Day 2 Arts Comedy Dance Music Theatre by John Anderson - August 2, 2024August 3, 2024 A mashup of promotional images for shows playing on the second day of the Minnesota Fringe Festival. How to "do" the Minnesota Fringe Festival is a question of preference. I come from the "see everything you can" mindset. My colleague Amy prefers to mix it in with other entertainments and off
FRINGE FILE #1: Amy’s Guide to Day 1 Arts Comedy Dance Music Theatre by Amy Donahue - August 1, 2024August 1, 2024 A promotional image for Antistrophe to an Andro-Sapphic Tragedy, presented by Greta Mae Meiser – one of more than 100 performing arts offerings in the 31st annual Minnesota Fringe Festival, which runs August 1-11. Today is the opening day of the Minnesota Fringe Festival. Since its inaugural season in 1994, this
NEWS: The O’Shaughnessy’s 2024-2025 Season Arts Dance Music Theatre by Twin Cities Arts Reader - July 24, 2024 A promotional image for Ananya Dance Theater's ANTARANGA: Between You and Me, one of 13 events in the O'Shaugnessy's just-announced 2024-2025 season. Photo by Canaan Mattson. The O’Shaughnessy at St. Catherine's University has announced its 2024-2025 season. The 13 new events include a wholly free program and anchor performances such as
REVIEW: The Time for Newsies is Now (Artistry) Arts Music Theatre by Basil Considine - July 21, 2024July 21, 2024 Singer-actor Tyson Insixiengmai as Crutchie in Artistry's production of Disney's Newsies: The Musical, currently playing at the Bloomington Center for the Arts. Photo by Dan Norman. During its original Broadway run, the musical Newsies was only a modest success. What a difference a decade makes – in Artistry's just-opened production, the