PREVIEW: Electric Telescope Theatre’s …And Now This Happens (Phoenix Theater) Arts Theatre by Twin Cities Arts Reader - August 25, 2021 The cast of ...and Now This Happens, which opens Friday at the Phoenix Theater in Minneapolis, MN. Photo by Dan Reiva. What should American theatre look like after George Floyd's death? In a neighborhood where African Americans have continued to die in encounters with law enforcement? In the middle of a
REVIEW: Should you Van Gogh? Are You on a Date? (Lighthouse) Arts Visual Arts by Basil Considine - August 24, 2021August 28, 2021 Patrons take in the Immersive Van Gogh Experience, now playing at Lighthouse Minneapolis in Northeast Minneapolis, Minnesota. Photo by Lucas Wells. It's been a week since the opening of the Immersive Van Gogh Exhibit in Northeast Minneapolis. This traveling multimedia experience runs through October 31, 2021, immersing visitors in a 360-degree,
REVIEW: Harmony Plunges Into the Ives of Summer (Seagle Festival/Schroon Lake, NY) Arts Music Opera by Basil Considine - August 15, 2021August 15, 2021 Victoria Erickson (as Harmony Twitchell), Joel Clemens (as Charles Ives), and Jake Goz (as Dr. David Twitchell) in the Seagle Festival's premiere of Harmony by Robert Carl & Russell Banks. How does the oldest summer singer training program in the country respond to a pandemic? When you're the Seagle Festival – a
NEWS: Collide Theatrical Dance’s Monstrous Decision Arts Dance by Twin Cities Arts Reader - August 14, 2021 A promotional graphic for COLLIDE Theatricals' upcoming production of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, which opens the company's eight season in October. It's been a year and a half of insanity, but COLLIDE Theatrical Dance Company's latest turn is something monstrous. The company's eighth season, announced this week, will open with Frankenstein and close
NEWS: Live Performance COVID-19 Vaccination Requirements Spreading Arts Dance Music Opera Theatre by Twin Cities Arts Reader - August 13, 2021August 14, 2021 A transmission electron microscopic image of an isolate from the first U.S. case of COVID-19, formerly known as 2019-nCoV. The spherical viral particles, colorized blue, contain cross-sections through the viral genome, seen as black dots. Image courtesy of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and generated by Hannah A.
REVIEW: Stirring American Musical Heroes (Minnesota Orchestra) Arts Music by Basil Considine - July 31, 2021July 31, 2021 Orchestra Hall in Minneapolis. Photo by George Heinrich Photography. The Minnesota Orchestra is getting its flirt on. No, not some sort of brass-woodwinds or string-percussion imbroglio – flirting with the audience. The ensemble's American Musical Heroes program, playing this weekend, is a grand tease, leaving the audience wanting more of just about every
REVIEW: Musically Impressive Islander (Theatre Elision) Arts Music Theatre by Basil Considine - July 29, 2021July 29, 2021 Deidre Cochran and Christine Wade in Theatre Elision's production of Islander by Amy Draper, Finn Anderson, and Stewart Melton, playing through July 31 at the Elision Playhouse in Crystal, MN. Photo by Jessica Holleque. If you're hesitant about returning to live theatre attendance, Theatre Elision is rolling out the red carpet treatment
PREVIEW: Opera on the Lake Strikes Back Arts Music Opera Theatre by Amy Donahue - July 27, 2021July 27, 2021 It's summer in Minnesota, which means it's officially Lake Time. By the lake, in the lake, on the lake – we're not the Land of 10,000 Lakes for nothing. This makes the return of the Opera on the Lake festival to Lake Como this week as natural as sweet corn at
BREAKING NEWS: Uprising Theatre Company to Close Arts Theatre by Basil Considine - July 26, 2021July 27, 2021 The Twin Cities-based Uprising Theatre Company announced today that it will cease operation in 2021. The organization joins the ranks of more than 200 Minnesota nonprofits to announce their plans to close since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Uprising Theatre's close leaves behind a legacy of rich and vigorous
NEWS: Minnesotans Represent in NET Virtual Exchanges Arts Music Theatre by Twin Cities Arts Reader - July 26, 2021July 27, 2021 It's no surprise that Minnesotans can overcome all sorts of inclement weather to connect in deepest winter. So, too, have they been connecting during the COVID-19 pandemic. Six individuals and entities in Minnesota have been awarded Virtual Exploration Grants by the Network of Ensemble Theatres to build theatrical connections with