NEWS: Jungle Theater’s Abbreviated, Pay-As-You-Can Season Announced Arts Theatre by Twin Cities Arts Reader - August 26, 2021August 26, 2021 The Jungle Theater in Minneapolis, MN. The Jungle Theater announced its 2021-2022 season today. The historic theater in Uptown Minneapolis will present an abbreviated, three-show season with a new-for-the-theatre, pay-as-you-can model for ticketing.This is the Jungle's first season under new management, following the appointment of Christina Baldwin as Artistic Director and
NEWS: Springboard for the Arts Announces Rural Regenerator Fellow Cohort Arts Dance Music Theatre Visual Arts by Twin Cities Arts Reader - August 26, 2021August 26, 2021 The inaugural cohort in Springboard for the Arts' Rural Regenerator Fellowship. Springboard for the Arts announced today its inaugural cohort of Rural Regenerator Fellows. Springboard for the Arts has selected 11 Rural Regenerator Fellows for 2021. All fellows live or work in communities of at most 50,000 people, located across the
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
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: 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
NEWS: Ordway to Throw Doors Open in September Arts Dance Music Opera Theatre by Twin Cities Arts Reader - June 3, 2021June 4, 2021 The facade of the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts in Saint Paul, MN. Photo by Mike Boeckmann. The Arts Partnership announced today that the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts in downtown Saint Paul will reopen for performances beginning this September. The September shows will be the Ordway's first in-person,
NEWS: Cats Out of the Bag, Off Hennepin Theatre Trust’s 2021-2022 Season Arts Theatre by Twin Cities Arts Reader - June 2, 2021June 7, 2021 A cat sitting on a tree branch in front of a bright harvest moon. Hennepin Theatre Trust announced today that the Broadway musical Cats will no longer be part of its upcoming 2021-2022 season. The schedule adjustment is the latest of many cascading changes in entertainment planning across the country as different