PREVIEW: Ring in the New Year with Murder at the Mystery Café Arts Comedy Theatre by Amy Donahue - January 3, 2024January 3, 2024 In what can only be called the natural result of too many holiday Hallmark Specials, The Mystery Café is now serving murder mysteries over dinner at two Twin Cities area locations. Holidays got you down? Does spending too much enforced time with family make you wish you could, well, kill someone?
NEWS: HUGE Improv Theater’s Forever Home and Winter Season Arts Comedy Theatre by Basil Considine - January 1, 2024January 3, 2024 HUGE Improv Theater's new space at 2728 Lyndale Ave S in Minneapolis, MN features 25% more audience seating, as well as larger lobby, stage, and classrooms, dedicated storage and office space, and (to the relief of all) an additional restroom. HUGE Improv Theater is settling into its new home at
PREVIEW: Stages of Equity 2024 Festival (Jan-April 2024) Arts Dance Music Theatre Visual Arts by Twin Cities Arts Reader - December 23, 2023December 24, 2023 North Hennepin Community College will host the Stages of Equity 2024 festival from January-April 2024. This visual & performing arts festival is marketed as raising up the powerful work of BIPOC visual and performing artists. All festival activities, including exhibits, live performances – notably including the acclaimed ensemble Ten Thousand
REVIEW: Company: A Refreshing Twist on a 70s Hit (Orpheum/HTT) Arts Music Theatre by Boo Segersin - November 16, 2023November 17, 2023 The ensemble of Company gathers around Bobbie (Rosalie Craig, center). This new twist on the classic Sondheim musical plays at the Orpheum Theatre in Minneapolis through November 19. Photo by Brinkhoff Mogenburg. Stephen Sondheim may be best known for some of his show stopping musicals such as Into the Woods and
PHOTOS: Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical (Children’s Theatre Company) Arts Music Theatre by Amy Donahue - November 10, 2023 The cast of the Children's Theatre Company's 2023 production of Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical, which opens Saturday, November 11, 2023 at the Children's Theatre Company in Minneapolis, MN. Photo by Glenn Stubbe Photography. Scroll through the virtual box office for the Children's Theatre Company production of Dr.
NEWS: Minnesota State Arts Board Announces Arts Dance Music Opera Theatre Visual Arts by John Anderson - October 15, 2023October 17, 2023 Common Loons Taking Off (2023), an acrylic on canvas painting by Duluth-based artist Karl Bardon. Bardon is 1 of 99 artists to receive grants from the Minnesota State Arts Board in a recently announced set of awards. Blacksmithing, opera, ballet, novels, screenplays, podcasts, and more. These are just a few of
INTERVIEW: Jay Russell and The Girl from the North Country Arts Dance Music Theatre by John Anderson - October 9, 2023October 10, 2023 Singer-actor-director Jay Russell performs in the new Bob Dylan musical Girl from the North Country, which runs October 10-14 at the Orpheum Theatre in Minneapolis, MN. Girl from the North Country, a musical with a book by Conor McPherson using the songs of Bob Dylan, opens tomorrow at the Orpheum Theatre in
REVIEW: Beetlejuice: A Fun, Dark Musical Comedy (Orpheum/HTT) Arts Music Theatre by Boo Segersin - September 21, 2023September 22, 2023 Justin Collette (Beetlejuice) and the national touring company of Beetlejuice, which plays through September 24 at the Orpheum Theatre in Minneapolis, MN. Photo by Matthew Murphy. Hurry on over to the Orpheum to catch Beetlejuice before their short run ends. This dark comedy is a fabulous musical adaptation of the wildly
PROFILE: James A. Rocco, Arts Leader and So Much More Arts Music Theatre by Basil Considine - September 8, 2023September 8, 2023 Arts leader (and more) James A. Rocco. If you want a story of doing it all in the performing arts, you'd be hard-pressed to find a better example than James A. Rocco. Over the decades, the St. Paul-based artist has been a Broadway actor, director, choreographer, writer, and producer – to
FRINGE FILE: The Golden Lanyard Awards Arts Theatre by Twin Cities Arts Reader - August 14, 2023 The 31st Minnesota Fringe Festival wrapped up last night with the Golden Lanyard Awards. Audience-driven Awards Spirit of the Fringe A Swimming Lesson in a Theatre Without a Lifeguard by an alleged Theatre Company Audience Picks Grindr Help Desk: The Musical by David Stillman New Origins: Beauty and the Beast by Two Minnie