PREVIEW: From Vermont Hell to World Hit: Hadestown‘s Journey to Broadway (Orpheum Theatre/HTT) Arts Music Theatre by Basil Considine - March 10, 2022March 10, 2022 The North American touring cast of the musical Hadestown, which plays at the Orpheum Theatre in Minneapolis, MN from March 15-20, 2022. Photo by T Charles Erickson. It took 13 years for the musical Hadestown to go to hell on Broadway. If that's not poetic, the subject certainly is: a struggling musician weds
REVIEW: Enjoying Waitress is as Easy as Pie (Ordway) Arts Music Theatre by Boo Segersin - March 9, 2022March 9, 2022 Jisel Soleil Ayon in the national touring production of Waitress: The Musical, now playing at the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts in St. Paul, MN. Photo by Jeremy Daniel. If you have a sweet tooth for beautiful music, powerful stories, and a lot of sugar, then Waitress: The Musical is just
PREVIEW: Waitress at the Ordway Arts Music Theatre by Bev Wolfe - March 8, 2022March 8, 2022 Gabriella Marzetta as Dawn and Brian Lundy as Ogie in the national tour of Waitress: The Musical, which opens tonight in St. Paul, MN. Photo by Jeremy Daniel. The Ordway Center for the Performing Arts is ending its Broadway show season with a bake-off. Pie baking, to be precise – a
REVIEW: “She Rescues Him Back” – But What More? Pretty Woman: The Musical (Orpheum/Hennepin Theatre Trust) Arts Dance Music Theatre by Bev Wolfe - March 1, 2022March 10, 2022 Kyle Taylor Parker starred in Pretty Woman: The Musical, which played at the Orpheum Theatre in Minneapolis in February. Photo by Matthew Murphy/MurphyMade. Pretty Woman: The Musical follows what has become a steady diet of revamping successful movies into Broadway musicals. The 1990 movie was a big box office success, catapulting
REVIEW: Don’t Run Away from Come From Away (Orpheum/Hennepin Theatre Trust) Arts Dance Music Theatre by Boo Segersin - January 12, 2022January 12, 2022 The touring company of Come From Away. Photo by Matthew Murphy. Last night, Come From Away finally opened at the Orpheum Theatre in Minneapolis. This show, about an ephemeral moment of human generosity in a community two decades ago, opened on Broadway in 2017. The show earned Christopher Ashley a Tony for Best
BREAKING NEWS: Guthrie Theater Reschedules Raisin, Destiny Arts Theatre by Twin Cities Arts Reader - January 10, 2022 The Guthrie Theater has adjusted its 2021–2022 performance calendar due to the COVID-19 pandemic. After catching emergent COVID-19 cases among vaccinated members in its forthcoming production of A Raisin in the Sun, the company has decided to temporarily shelve the production. Another forthcoming play, Destiny of Desire, is also being cancelled. The celebrated A Raisin
BREAKING NEWS: COVID-19 Cancels Remaining Summer: The Donna Summer Musical Performances Arts Music Theatre by Twin Cities Arts Reader - December 31, 2021December 31, 2021 The cast of the national touring company of Summer: The Donna Summer Musical, whose run at the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts in Saint Paul, MN has been interrupted due to COVID-19. As the Queen of Disco, Donna Summer smashed records and amassed an impressive 42 Top 40 hits, but
REVIEW: The All-Too Brief Summer: The Donna Summer Musical (Ordway) Arts Music Theatre by Bev Wolfe - December 31, 2021January 2, 2022 The cast of the national touring company of Summer: The Donna Summer Musical. Originally scheduled to run through January 2, the show's remaining performances at the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts in Saint Paul, MN have been cancelled due to COVID-19. With many touring shows, you can blink and miss
REVIEW: Anastasia Opens, Prodigal Princess Returns (Orpheum Theatre/HTT) Arts Dance Music Theatre by Boo Segersin - December 8, 2021December 8, 2021 The North American touring company of Anastasia, now playing at the Orpheum Theatre in Minneapolis, MN. Photo by Jeremy Daniel. The Broadway tour of the stage musical Anastasia opened at the Orpheum Theatre in Minneapolis last night. It was a long time coming: after originally being slotted to perform in Minneapolis
REVIEW: New Rhythms in A Christmas Carol (Guthrie Theater) Arts Theatre by Bev Wolfe - November 30, 2021November 30, 2021 The cast of the Guthrie Theater's 2021 holiday production of A Christmas Carol, now playing in Minneapolis. Photo by Jenny Graham. Prologue Re-opening operations during the COVID-19 pandemic has been a work in progress, with many adjustments and surprises. One such surprise came with the opening of the Guthrie Theater's new production