FRINGE FILE #8: The Golden Lanyard Awards Arts Comedy Dance Music Theatre by Twin Cities Arts Reader - August 13, 2024August 13, 2024 The main Minnesota Fringe Festival is now over, with a few encore performances to follow. Over 11 days, the festival's 31st incarnation presented more than 500 performances and more than 20,000 butts-in-seats. At its closing night party, the Golden Lanyard Awards were distributed to 28 shows and 2 individuals. For the
FRINGE FILE #7: Reviews, Pt. 4 Arts Comedy Theatre by Twin Cities Arts Reader - August 11, 2024August 11, 2024 A collage of promotional photos for the Arts Reader's Last Day Staff Recommendations for the Minnesota Fringe Festival. It's the last day of the Minnesota Fringe Festival, and what will you see? Last Day Staff Recommendations Two Bowls of Cereal and Some Bacon (Mahmoud Hakima) – Theatre in the Round, 2:30 PM
FRINGE FILE #6: Reviews, Pt. 3 Arts Comedy Dance Music Theatre by Twin Cities Arts Reader - August 10, 2024August 11, 2024 According to the Minnesota Fringe Festival, the following shows are sell-out risks for today: 5 x 5 by Transatlantic Love Affair @ 2:30 p.m. (Open Eye Theatre) A Horse Walks Out Onto the Stage and Dies by Theatre on the Rocks @ 2:30 p.m. (Phoenix Theater) Seance Sisters (Rebecca Wickert) The Fox sisters
FRINGE FILE #4: Reviews, Pt. 1 Arts Comedy Dance Music Theatre by Twin Cities Arts Reader - August 4, 2024August 4, 2024 According to the Minnesota Fringe Festival, today's sell-out risk is: 5 x 5 by Transatlantic Love Affair @ 5:30 p.m. (Open Eye Theatre) 5 x 5 (Transatlantic Love Affair) Literally compact, beautifully flowing, this set of five miniatures tells uses TLA's trademark style where actors become not just the cast, but also scenery,
FRINGE FILE #3: Amy’s Guide to Day 3 Arts Comedy Dance Music Theatre by Amy Donahue - August 3, 2024August 3, 2024 A collage of selected shows playing on Day 3 of the Minnesota Fringe Festival, which runs through August 11 in Minneapolis, MN. The first Saturday of the Minnesota Fringe Festival is a full, full day if you're trying to see every possible show. If you see every possible show, that's seven shows in
FRINGE FILE #2: John’s Guide to Day 2 Arts Comedy Dance Music Theatre by John Anderson - August 2, 2024August 3, 2024 A mashup of promotional images for shows playing on the second day of the Minnesota Fringe Festival. How to "do" the Minnesota Fringe Festival is a question of preference. I come from the "see everything you can" mindset. My colleague Amy prefers to mix it in with other entertainments and off
FRINGE FILE #1: Amy’s Guide to Day 1 Arts Comedy Dance Music Theatre by Amy Donahue - August 1, 2024August 1, 2024 A promotional image for Antistrophe to an Andro-Sapphic Tragedy, presented by Greta Mae Meiser – one of more than 100 performing arts offerings in the 31st annual Minnesota Fringe Festival, which runs August 1-11. Today is the opening day of the Minnesota Fringe Festival. Since its inaugural season in 1994, this
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
NEWS: Chanhassen Dinner Theatres to Resume Concerts & Comedy Jan. 15 Arts Comedy Music Theatre by Twin Cities Arts Reader - January 8, 2021 Michael Gruber (as traveling conman Harold Hill) and Ann Michels (as Marian Paroo) in Chanhassen Dinner Theatres' The Music Man, whose performances were suspended in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Photo by Dan Norman. Chanhassen Dinner Theatres announced today that it will resume its live concerts and comedy shows beginning