THE CURMUDGEON: Vol. 5 – The Five Sins of Publicity Photos Arts Dance Music Opera The Curmudgeon Theatre Visual Arts by Amy Donahue - July 15, 2017July 15, 2017 Photo by Markus Spiske. It happens to us all the time: someone submits a press kit or request for reviews, we're intrigued and thinking about possibilities – and find that the photos are just unsuitable for publication purposes. There are many different ways that this can happen, so here's a list
REVIEW: Farce the Thing in Red Herring (Theatre in the Round) Arts Theatre by Basil Considine - July 14, 2017July 14, 2017 Michael Hollinger's Red Herring, now playing at Theatre in the Round, is a bedroom farce whose mistaken identities and misunderstandings quickly spiral outside of the bedroom into potential nuclear war. That's a slight exaggeration – but it does run very quickly , at least, into Cold War spycraft and nuclear
REVIEW: Splendid Hit Parade in Motown: The Musical (Orpheum/Hennepin Theatre Trust) Arts Dance Music Theatre by Ali O'Reilly - July 13, 2017July 14, 2017 Gabriella Whiting (Florence Ballard), Allison Semmes (Diana Ross), and Tavia Riveé (Mary Wilson) in Motown: The Musical. Photo by Joan Marcus. Motown: The Musical returned to the Orpheum July 11th. The musical – which follows the story of Berry Gordy, Jr. and his iconic hit-making enterprise – includes more than 60 beloved hits
PREVIEW: Steamy Accordion Tango in María de Buenos Aires (Mill City Summer Opera) Arts Dance Music Opera Theatre Visual Arts by Basil Considine - July 13, 2017July 13, 2017 Catalina Cuervo as María in a 2014 Syracuse Opera production of María de Buenos Aires. Photo by Douglas Lee Wonders. Mill City Summer Opera's upcoming María de Buenos Aires was written by Astor Piazzola, one of the most renown tango composers of the 20th Century. If that seems an odd pedigree for
Fringe File 2017, #4: Joseph Fletcher and Willi Carlisle on There Ain’t No More: Death of a Folk Singer (MN Fringe) Arts Music Theatre by Basil Considine - July 12, 2017July 21, 2017 Willi Carlisle in There Ain't No More: Death of a Folksinger. Photo by Robin Farrin. One of the hottest out-of-town acts coming to the 2017 Minnesota Fringe Festival is a solo show out of Arkansas. Willi Carlisle's folk operetta There Ain't No More: Death of a Folksinger gives a slice-of-life view of Americana,
REVIEW: Lovely Tangles in Don’t Dress for Dinner (Gremlin) Arts Theatre by Bev Wolfe - July 11, 2017July 12, 2017 Maeve Moynihan & Grant Henderson. Photo by DreamFirstBorn Images. French bedroom farce is in fine form in Gremlin Theatre’s production of Don’t Dress for Dinner. French playwright Marc Camoletti wrote the original play, which was presented using Robin Hawdon's English adaptation. Don’t Dress for Dinner was Gremlin's very first production all the way
FRINGE 2017: Coverage Roundup Arts Dance Music Theatre by Twin Cities Arts Reader - July 11, 2017July 21, 2017 Minnesota Tamil Sangam's The Intrepid, a dance musical extravaganza. This page shows all content published by the Twin Cities Arts Reader related to the 2017 Minnesota Fringe Festival. For our broader MN Fringe coverage (i.e., not restricted to a specific festival season), see: http://twincitiesarts.com/tag/fringe/ Disclosure The majority of the Arts Reader staff are engaged in the
Fringe File 2017, #3: Minnesota Fringe’s First Official Preview of 2017 Arts Dance Music Theatre by Hanne Appelbaum - July 11, 2017July 21, 2017 Aidan Jhane Gallivan in Swing and a Miss's production of A Murmur of Murder. Fringe is coming. Minnesota's nationally renown festival of experimental performing art opens on August 3rd, but local audiences can get sneak peeks at 30 of the 167 shows next Monday. Each of these 30 local companies will
REVIEW: Glensheen is Murderously Good (History Theatre) Arts Dance Music Theatre by Basil Considine - July 10, 2017July 11, 2017 Sandra Strughers, Gary Briggle, Jen Maren, Ruthie Baker, and Adam Qualls re-enact an iconic photo moment in the Glensheen murders scandal. Photo by Scott Pakudaitis. A year and a half ago, I heard that a murder mystery of a musical set in Duluth was making a killing at the History Theatre.
INTERVIEW: Venessa Fuentes and Dameun Strange on Mother King Arts Music Opera Theatre by Basil Considine - July 10, 2017July 10, 2017 The cast of Mother King in rehearsal. On the 1st of July 1974, an organist at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, was shot and killed by a deranged man who burst into the sanctuary. The victim, Alberta Christine Williams King, was an active church leader and NAACP member, the founder of