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
FEATURE: From Northfield to Cultural Ambassador: Victoria Erickson, Soprano and DAAD Scholar Arts Music Opera Theatre by John Anderson - July 9, 2024July 9, 2024 Minnesota singer and Opera Athena Creative Director Victoria Erickson in the 2024 premiere of the opera The Miller's Daughter, for which she wrote the libretto. The city of Northfield, Minnesota has long had an outsize influence on the larger world. In its early role as an agricultural hub, it exported flours
PREVIEW: Behind the Story – Before Out of the Box Opera’s Suor Angelica Arts Music Opera Theatre by Basil Considine - June 24, 2024June 24, 2024 The interior of the Basilica of St. Mary in Minneapolis, MN, which will host Out of the Box Opera's production of Puccini's opera Suor Angelica. In the spring of 1904, the composer Giacomo Puccini was at an impasse. To the public eye, his life and career were flying high: he had
NEWS: First Look at Purple Rain Musical on Saturday, June 22 Arts Music Theatre by Twin Cities Arts Reader - June 21, 2024 The stage musical adaptation of Prince's legendary film and album Purple Rain is taking shape. The musical, scheduled to run April 10-May 11, 2025 at the historic State Theatre in Minneapolis, is filling out its creative team with new members, and will receive a "first look" preview and discussion tomorrow. This stage
REVIEW: Musically Stellar MJ (HTT/Orpheum Theatre) Arts Dance Music Theatre by Bev Wolfe - May 25, 2024May 25, 2024 Brandon Lee Harris as 'Michael' Josh A. Dawson as 'Quincy Jones' Roman Banks as 'MJ' and the cast of the MJ First National Tour. Photo by Matthew Murphy/MurphyMade. The touring Broadway musical MJ is more than a show about Michael Jackson’s life, it is the Michael Jackson experience with an enthused
PREVIEW: Bringing Back that Detroit Sound (Don Was & The Pan-Detroit Ensemble at The Dakota) Arts Music by Brian Bix - May 6, 2024May 6, 2024 Don Was and the Pan-Detroit Ensemble. Photo by Gemma Corfield. The legendary musician Don Was will be bringing his new Pan-Detroit Ensemble, as well as his many lifetimes of musical experience, to The Dakota for two shows (6:30 pm and 8:30 pm) on May 21. Most of us came across Was for
PREVIEW: The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra’s 2024-2025 Season Arts Music by John Anderson - April 20, 2024April 20, 2024 The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra in concert. Photo by Chelsea Tischler. Piazzolla’s The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires. A composer residency with Valerie Coleman. An oboe d'amore concerto. These are a few of the highlights of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra's new season. For its 66th season, the SPCO – one of
PREVIEW: Mixed Precipitation’s Pickup Truck Opera Returns Arts Music Opera Theatre by Amy Donahue - April 15, 2024 Singers Kara Morgan, Corissa Bussian, and Mark Billy in Mixed Precipitation's 2023 operatic production of Romeo and Juliet. In the not-so-distant future, scientist and entrepreneur Dr. Johann Faust faces a planet in crisis but no motivation to spare humanity its fate. He yearns to find a life of meaning and love.