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
NEWS: Guthrie Theater to Film, Stream Virtual Christmas Carol Arts Theatre by Twin Cities Arts Reader - September 25, 2020 Cast members in a past Guthrie Theater production of A Christmas Carol. Photo by Dan Norman. The Guthrie Theater (Joseph Haj, Artistic Director) announced today that its holiday tradition of presenting A Christmas Carol is going virtual, as Dickens’ Holiday Classic. Inspired by Dickens' own holiday readings of his work, which were wildly
PREVIEW: Minnesota Opera Returns…to the Baseball Stadium? Arts Music Opera Theatre by Basil Considine - September 24, 2020September 24, 2020 CHS Field at sunset. Photo courtesy of Minnesota Opera. When you hear "Take Me Out to the Ballgame", opera is probably not the first thing that comes to mind. Yes, there are opera singers who've sung the national anthem. Over in football land, you might even call the hullabaloo around the
NEWS: Playwrights’ Center Announces Ambitious, COVID-era Programming Expansion Arts Theatre by Twin Cities Arts Reader - September 11, 2020 A word cloud of text of the Playwrights' Center press release announcing new content series. The Playwrights’ Center announced today an ambitious plan to expand its programming for theatre artists in its 2020-201 season. “As the world and its challenges continue to evolve, so must the work of Playwrights’ Center,” said