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
INTERVIEW: Colin Mochrie on HYPROV: Improv Under Hypnosis (Ordway) Arts Comedy by Basil Considine - October 22, 2019October 23, 2019 Comedian Colin Mochrie, of Whose Line Is It Anyway? fame, performs with hypnotist Asad Mecci at the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts on Sunday in Saint Paul, MN. Canada's Comedy Person of the Year. The Second City. The Vancouver TheatreSports League. Whose Line Is It Anyway? What do these have in common? Comedian and
REVIEW: Mike Birbiglia’s The New One Hit (Ordway) Arts Comedy by Basil Considine - October 18, 2019October 18, 2019 Comedian Mike Birbiglia. A clean comic can be hard to find these days. Not in terms of personal hygiene – that's something we wouldn't presume or want to have to judge – but in terms of content. Shock-value, fame, and R-rated comics seem to go hand-in-hand, which does tend to segment
INTERVIEW: Mike Birbiglia on The New One and Opting Out of Winter Arts Comedy by Basil Considine - October 15, 2019October 15, 2019 Comedian Mike Birbiglia, who performs at the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts in St. Paul from Oct. 17-19. When reviewing comedian Mike Birbiglia's latest solo show The New One, the New York Times' Ben Brantley decided to wax poetic. "Mr. Birbiglia’s voice," he wrote, "becomes a low, wraparound, pleasure-drenched caress.
Fringe File #17: The 2nd Annual Golden Lanyard Awards Arts Comedy Dance Music Theatre by Basil Considine - August 12, 2019August 12, 2019 Last night, the Minnesota Fringe Festival announced the recipients of the 2nd Annual Golden Lanyard Awards. These awards honor, among other things, the best-selling shows in each venue, several audience and artist voting categories, and Fringe staff favorites. A total of 28 awards were bestowed on 23 shows and 1