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REVIEW: RENT Keeps on Rocking Hard (Hennepin Theatre Trust)

by Basil Considine -

The company for the RENT 20th Anniversary Tour. Photo by Carol Rosegg. As the last notes of RENT sounded, the audience burst from their seats en masse in a standing ovation. After that response, much of the writing of this review seems superfluous. For a show on its 20th anniversary tour, RENT has weathered the years very well. Jonathan

REVIEW: Diana Krall Goes Retro Again (State Theatre/HTT)

by Twin Cities Arts Reader -

Photo by Mary McCartney. Diana Krall's Turn Up the World tour kicked off in Minneapolis on Friday with a concert at the State Theatre. The concert featured Krall's trademark husky alto vocals in standards drawn from the jazz repertoire and the Great American Songbook. The tour shares a name with Krall's just-released album, which

DC REVIEW: Delectable Appetizers in Les Indes Galantes (Opera Lafayette)

by Basil Considine -

The Opera Lafayette Orchestra. Ryan Brown leads with his violin (standing, center). Sketch by Basil Considine. The Twin Cities opera scene is blessed with several opera companies whose specialties range from the popular canon to new repertoire to site-specific and unusual spectacle. If your tastes run to Baroque operas, however, your odds of

REVIEW: David Gray & J.S. Ondara in Concert (Pantages Theatre)

by Bev Wolfe -

David Gray headlined at the Pantages. The Twin Cities received a double treat of solo/acoustic performers in May at the Pantages Theatre.  The headliner was David Gray, a British singer-songwriter who first burst onto the international scene with a series of powerful hits in 2000 that continues today.  His opening act

REVIEW: Arguing Aesthetics in Amy’s View (Park Square Theatre)

by Bev Wolfe -

Photo by Petronella J. Ytsma. Yes, we speak of things that matter With words that must be said: “Can analysis be worthwhile?” “Is the theater really dead?” These words from Paul Simon’s song “The Dangling Conversation” kept running through my mind as I attended Amy’s View at Park Square Theatre.  Yes, the play is talky. 

INTERVIEW: Theatre Pro Rata on Up: The Man in the Air

by Kit Bix -

John Middleton, Shanan Custer, Carin Bratlie Wethern, and Mark Benzel at Park Square Theatre. Photo by Kit Bix. Theatre Pro-Rata’s latest offering, Up: The Man in the Air, opens Friday, May 26 at Park Square Theatre's Andy Boss Thrust Stage. This "fantastical biography" was inspired by the true story of Larry Walters, an amateur inventor

INTERVIEW: Sharpening La Rondine: Boston Opera Collaborative and the Swallow’s Diet

by Basil Considine -

Reworking or remixing opera classics is one of the hot current trends in American opera circles. Skylark Opera Theatre's production of The Tragedy of Carmen certainly caught local opera fans' attention with a heavily streamlined, 90-minute version of the classic opera by Bizet, with packed houses and fans clamoring to see this up-close-and-personal treatment. Transforming

REVIEW: Jiving Sisters of Swing (History Theatre)

by Bev Wolfe -

Cat Brindisi, Katie Hahn, and Jen Burleigh-Bentz in the History Theatre’s production of Sisters of Swing. The Andrew Sisters were the sweethearts of the World War II generation. When my mother was in nursing school during the war, the students in the girls’ dorm would congregate around the dorm piano and

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