PREVIEW: Opera on the Lake Returns with The Merry Widow Arts Music Opera Theatre by Amy Donahue - July 24, 2022July 25, 2022 Opera singer, director, and arts visionary Anne Wieben (standing) performing with the Opera on the Lake company at an outdoor concert at the Lake Harriet Bandshell in July 2021. COVID-19 has barely slowed Anne Wieben down. As theatres around the world shuttered, the Minnesota native and opera singer went about finding
INTERVIEW: On Collide’s Class of ’85 Return (x2) Arts Dance Theatre by Basil Considine - July 17, 2022July 18, 2022 Lifts, leans, and arm-raises in COLLIDE Theatrical's Class of '85, which returns for a 4-show revival at the Gremlin Theater in St. Paul from July 21-24. Photo by Alexis Lund. COLLIDE Theatrical is nine years' old. For a child to be going to high school at this tender age would be
INTERVIEW: Gary Briggle on G&S, Interim Leadership, and Murder Arts Music Opera Theatre by Basil Considine - July 6, 2022July 6, 2022 Some of the many faces of singer, actor, director, playwright, and arts leader Gary Briggle. Except for a penchant for murder (on-stage, that is), Gary Briggle keeps reinventing himself. Glance at his resume, though, and a few trends emerge. Opera director and principal tenor in Ohio. Television actor in the 1980s. Long-time
INTERVIEW: Carin Bratlie Wethern of Theatre Pro Rata Arts Theatre by Basil Considine - July 4, 2022July 4, 2022 Some of Artistic Director Carin Bratlie Wethern's notes for Theatre Pro Rata's 2022 hit production of Sarah Ruhl's Orlando. In a 2011 article for The Guardian, Lyn Gardner asked, "Why do some arts organizations survive and thrive while others wither and die?" This was not idle speculation: coming in the aftermath
REVIEW: Ain’t Too Proud: What Becomes of the Brokenhearted? Arts Dance Music Theatre by Brian Bix - June 29, 2022June 30, 2022 Harrell Holmes Jr., Elijah Ahmad Lewis, Jalen Harris, Marcus Paul James, and James T. Lane star as The Temptations in the musical Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of The Temptations, which opened Tuesday night at the Orpheum Theatre in Minneapolis, MN. When measuring records sold and overall artistic influence, The
INTERVIEW: The Temptations and Questions With Harrel Holmes Jr Arts Dance Music Theatre by Basil Considine - June 28, 2022June 28, 2022 Harrell Holmes Jr., Elijah Ahmad Lewis, Jalen Harris, Marcus Paul James, and James T. Lane in the National Touring Company of Ain’t Too Proud, opening tonight at the Orpheum Theatre in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Photo by Emilio Madrid. The touring Broadway musical Ain’t Too Proud – The Life and Times of The
NEWS: Ordway Announces Inaugural GreenRoom Fellowship Cohort Arts Dance Music Theatre by Twin Cities Arts Reader - June 22, 2022 The logo for the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts' new GreenRoom fellowship features a stylized double "G" against a backdrop of digital graffitti. The Ordway Center for the Performing Arts announced today its inaugural GreenRoom musical theater training fellowship recipients. These 10 artists, selected through a competitive application process,
INTERVIEW: Playwright Kate Hamill’s New Emma at the Guthrie Arts Theatre by Basil Considine - June 14, 2022June 14, 2022 The Wurtele Thrust Stage at the Guthrie Theater. Photo by Gallop Studios. This Saturday, previews begin at the Guthrie Theater for Emma. This new adaptation of Jane Austen's classic 1815 novel about a would-be matchmaker in Regency Era England is penned by actor-playwright Kate Hamill, who has made something of a
REVIEW: Power and Privilege in A Raisin in the Sun (Guthrie Theater) Arts Theatre by Dan Reiva - May 22, 2022May 26, 2022 What would you if someone offered you money to abandon your dreams – and was racist? In A Raisin in the Sun, now playing at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, Karl Lindner (Terry Hempleman) offers to buy out the Younger family (James T. Alfred as Walter Lee Younger, Nubia Monks as Beneatha Younger,
REVIEW: Falling in Love at the Moulin Rouge (Orpheum/HTT) Arts Music Theatre by Boo Segersin - May 21, 2022May 21, 2022 The cast of the North American Tour of Moulin Rouge! The Musical. Photo by Matthew Murphy. Welcome to the Moulin Rouge. Moulin Rouge! The Musical, that is – now playing at the Orpheum Theatre in Minneapolis. This award-winning production is jam-packed with amazing talent, beautiful music, and stunning choreography. From glittering costumes