NEWS: MN Jewish Theatre Returns to Live Performance with Sally Wingert, A Pickle Arts Theatre by Amy Donahue - April 23, 2021April 25, 2021 If you were going to return to live performances with a big splash, what would you pick? The Hennepin Theatre Trust's answer this past winter was simple: Hamilton, the genre-bending Broadway mega musical hit by Lin-Manuel Miranda. Sadly, this was not to be – as the Third Wave of COVID-19 infections
NEWS: Christina Baldwin to Take Reins at Jungle Theater Arts Theatre by Amy Donahue - April 20, 2021April 21, 2021 Christina Baldwin, the Jungle Theater's newest Artistic Director. Christina Baldwin has been appointed as permanent Artistic Director of the Jungle Theater, a storied theater located on Lyndale near Lake Street in Uptown Minneapolis. Baldwin is the company's third permanent Artistic Director, succeeding Sarah Rasmussen and founder Bain Boehlke. Baldwin is no stranger
NEWS: Yellow Tree Theatre Appoints New Artistic Director Arts Theatre by Amy Donahue - February 15, 2021February 15, 2021 Osseo, MN-based Yellow Tree Theatre has appointed Austene Van as its next Producing Artistic Director. Van will succeed founders Jason Peterson and Jessica Lind Peterson, who formed the regional theatre powerhouse in 2008. Austene Van is a multi-talented theatre professional with more than three decades' experience in the performing arts as
REVIEW: Stirring The Planet – A Lament (PROTOTYPE Festival) Arts Dance Music Opera Theatre by Amy Donahue - January 15, 2021January 15, 2021 A video still from Garin Nugroho’s The Planet – A Lament, now playing in the 2021 virtual incarnation of the PROTOTYPE festival. It was with profound jealousy that I first learned of the PROTOTYPE festival of new music-theatre works. My editor had traveled to New York City to see the festival
NEWS: Hennepin Theatre Trust’s New 2021-2022 Season Arts Dance Music Theatre by Twin Cities Arts Reader - January 14, 2021January 14, 2021 The cast of Hamilton, one of 12 musicals in the redesigned 2021-2022 season announced today by the Hennepin Theatre Trust. Photo by Joan Marcus. The Hennepin Theatre Trust announced its 2021-2022 season today. After numerous cancellations due to COVID-19, 11 of the 12 planned Broadways shows – plus an addition –
NEWS: Chanhassen Dinner Theatres to Resume Concerts & Comedy Jan. 15 Arts Comedy Music Theatre by Twin Cities Arts Reader - January 8, 2021 Michael Gruber (as traveling conman Harold Hill) and Ann Michels (as Marian Paroo) in Chanhassen Dinner Theatres' The Music Man, whose performances were suspended in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Photo by Dan Norman. Chanhassen Dinner Theatres announced today that it will resume its live concerts and comedy shows beginning
INTERVIEW: Taking the Multi-Site PROTOTYPE Festival Online in a Pandemic Arts Dance Music Opera Theatre by Basil Considine - January 8, 2021January 15, 2021 A visual collage of six works featured in the 2021 PROTOTYPE festival. Clockwise from upper left: TIMES3, Wide Slumber Lepidopteris, Ocean Body, The Planet – A Lament, Modulation, and The Murder of Halit Yozgat. For lovers of new music-theatre, there are few events more exciting than the annual PROTOTYPE festival held
FEATURE: Back to the Theatre: Fortune’s Fool and St. Croix Retaking Stages Arts Music Theatre by Amy Donahue - November 4, 2020November 4, 2020 Heidi Garrido is one of 22 artists featured in Fortune's Fool Theatre's production of To Breed, or Not to Breed, opening tonight at the Crane Theater in Northeast Minneapolis. Photo by Jace Garrido-Edington for HM Photography. It's a morning that has Americans waiting on the edge of their seats – the
FEATURE: A Host of New Operas, Minnesota-Born Arts Music Theatre by Hanne Appelbaum - October 4, 2020March 22, 2024 It was a Sunday afternoon in May where it all started to come together. Four months before COVID-19 shutdowns rolled across the United States, Ben Krywosz (the artistic director of Nautilus Music-Theater) had convened a meeting of opera organizations in Minnesota, to talk about the state of affairs and build
FEATURE: Unsafe on Any Stage: Alcoholism and Silence at Theatre in the Round Arts Music Theatre by Basil Considine - September 30, 2020September 30, 2020 A word cloud generated from the text of a social media posting by actor Piper Quinn, calling on Theatre in the Round to take action against repeated misbehaviors by a fellow actor. The morning of Monday, September 14, MPR reporter Marianne Combs announced her resignation, effective immediately. The reason given? Editors