NEWS: New Leadership at The Moving Company Arts Theatre by Twin Cities Arts Reader - July 5, 2018July 6, 2018 The Moving Company announced the appointment today of Larisa Netterlund as the company's newly created Executive Director. Since its establishment in 2008, The Moving Company has built a reputation for vivid theatrical works with alternately comic and dramatic tones. It has been led since its inception by Co-Aristic Directors Dominique Serrand
REVIEW: The Hunt A-Foot in Underneath the Lintel (Theater Latte Da) Arts Theatre by Bev Wolfe - July 4, 2018July 5, 2018 Sally Wingert in Theater Latté Da's production of Underneath the Lintel by Glen Berger. Photo by Dan Norman. This retrospective review revisits Theater Latté Da's recent production of Underneath the Lintel, which closed Sunday. When staging the solo play Underneath the Lintel with Theater Latté Da, Director Peter Rothstein sought a different take on
Fringe 2018: Coverage Roundup Arts Dance Music Theatre by Twin Cities Arts Reader - July 1, 2018July 10, 2018 A collage made from promotional show images from the 2018 Minnesota Fringe Festival. This landing page consolidates all of the Arts Reader's coverage for the 2018 Minnesota Fringe Festival. New interviews, features, previews, and reviews will appear here automatically when published.
REVIEW: Thomasina Petrus Shines in Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill (Jungle Theater) Arts Music Theatre by Bev Wolfe - June 29, 2018June 29, 2018 Many jazz greats passed away long before I could see them. Billie Holiday, also known as Lady Day, was among the greatest of the jazz greats. I never had an opportunity to see Billie Holiday sing live, but I suspect that Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill is the
REVIEW: Run, Do Not Walk, to Love Never Dies (Orpheum/Hennepin Theatre Trust) Arts Dance Music Theatre by Basil Considine - June 28, 2018June 29, 2018 Meghan Picerno as Christine Daaé in the national tour of Love Never Dies. Photo by Joan Marcus. If you have any interest in Phantom of the Opera, you should go see Love Never Dies. If you're interested in musicals but not super into Phantom of the Opera, you should probably see
REVIEW: Stylized New West Side Story Beauty to Behold (Guthrie Theater) Arts Dance Music Theatre by Basil Considine - June 27, 2018June 27, 2018 The cast of the Guthrie Theater’s production of West Side Story. Photo by T Charles Erickson. The Guthrie Theater's new production of the classic musical West Side Story is many things. The heavily stylized production is brilliantly adapted to the Wurtele Thrust Stage, features sparkling new choreography by Maija Garcia, and
PREVIEW: It’s Not All in the Hair in Beehive: The 60s Musical (Old Log Theatre) Arts Dance Music Theatre by Basil Considine - June 24, 2018June 25, 2018 Allyson Tolbert, Erin Nicole Farsté, and Kiko Laureano in the Old Log Theatre's upcoming production of Beehive: The 60s Musical. Photo courtesy of the Old Log Theatre. If you're going to do a musical about the Sixties and it's not going to be Hair, what would you pick? With all the decade's
INTERVIEW: Leslie Vincent on Beehives and the Singing Actor’s Life Arts Music Theatre by Basil Considine - June 24, 2018June 24, 2018 Singer-actor Leslie Vincent. Photo by Briana Patnode. Beehive: The 60s Musical opens at the Old Log Theatre this Friday, June 29. This period jukebox show stars eight fabulously talented women and features songs such as timeless classics as "My Boyfriend’s Back", "Be My Baby", "Son of a Preacher Man", and "Me
REVIEW: Lovely, Moving Ball: A Musical Tribute to My Lost Testicle Returns (Southern Theater) Arts Music Theatre by Basil Considine - June 23, 2018June 24, 2018 Max Wojtanowicz in Ball: A Musical Tribute to My Lost Testicle. Photo by Dan Norman. "Cancer's back" is one of the worst pieces of medical news imaginable. "That musical about cancer is back", however, is great news. Max Wojtanowicz's Ball: A Musical Tribute to My Lost Testicle is currently back at The
INTERVIEW: McKenna Kelly-Eiding on Becoming Sherlock Holmes in Baskerville Arts Theatre by Basil Considine - June 20, 2018June 21, 2018 McKenna Kelly-Eiding and Sara Richardson as Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson in Park Square Theatre's production of Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery by Ken Ludwiig. Photo by Petronella J. Ytsma. Park Square Theatre opens its annual summer mystery play this Saturday: Ken Ludwig's new play Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery. This freewheeling