FEATURE: Opera, Sexual Misconduct, and Daylight Arts Comedy Dance Music Opera Theatre by Basil Considine - July 21, 2018August 1, 2018 This story includes a graphic discussion of sexual assault. One night in July, wigmaster Jolie O’Dell turned out the lights and went to bed. She awoke, she says, to find herself being groped by her house guest, a bass-baritone opera singer named Matthew Stump. Stump masturbated as he fondled her; amidst
Fringe File 2018 #11 – Denzel Belin on The Breakfast Club: The Musical! Arts Music Theatre by Basil Considine - July 21, 2018July 22, 2018 The cast of The Breakfast Club: The Musical! in a promotional photo replicating the classic movie's poster. The Breakfast Club begins with an old dramatic standby. You isolate a group of people in a room, you have them talk, and eventually they exchange truths about themselves and come to new understandings.
REVIEW: Baskerville a Splendid Farce (Park Square) Arts Theatre by Amy Donahue - July 21, 2018July 21, 2018 The ensemble for Park Square's Baskerville. Photo by Petronella J. Ytsma. Officially, the show currently playing at Park Square Theatre's proscenium stage is called Ken Ludwig's Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery. This somewhat fatuous, pompous title belies the earthy farce that is at the heart of Baskerville. It's a Sherlock Holmes
Fringe File 2018 #10 – Thomas Buan and a new Don Quixote Arts Theatre by Basil Considine - July 20, 2018July 22, 2018 A rehearsal photo from Threepenny Productions' production of Fools, Errant. Photo by Scott Gilbert. This latest installment of the Fringe File series shines a spotlight on Thomas Buan, an actor in Threepenny Productions' production of Fools, Errant. This spin on the classic novel Don Quixote was written by Amy Seham and engages
Fringe File 2018 #9 – Aidan Jhane Gallivan on Rejection Arts Theatre by Basil Considine - July 19, 2018July 20, 2018 The cast of Theatre Corrobora's Rejection. Aidan Jhane Gallivan is the executive director of Theatre Corrobora. The company's premiere of It Always Rained in Paris earned the Arts Reader's highest award, the Editor's Pick, at the 2016 Minnesota Fringe Festival. Earlier this year, it staged The Critic and the Drama Queen, a new play
Fringe File 2018 #8 – Josh Carson on A Justice League of Their Own Arts Theatre by Basil Considine - July 18, 2018July 18, 2018 A superhero fight training session for A Justice League of Their Own, presented by Mainly Me Productions. L-R: Heather Meyer, Meredith Kind, Emily Jabas, Lauren Omernik, Kelsey Cramer, and Sulia Altenberg. This installment of the Fringe File series looks at Josh Carson, the brainchild behind A Justice League of Their Own. This fringe show
Fringe File 2018 #7 – Liv Augusta on Goofing Through Fringe Arts Theatre by Basil Considine - July 17, 2018July 18, 2018 Liv Augusta (right) in a Goof Goof show. This installment of the Fringe File series on the Minnesota Fringe Festival shines a spotlight on Liv Augusta. Augusta is a co-creator of (a) Normal Theatre Play, a piece grounded in absurdist theatre and ridiculing the meaninglessness inherent in the world. When did you do
Fringe File 2018 #6 – VIDEO: The First Round of Previews Arts Theatre by Twin Cities Arts Reader - July 17, 2018July 18, 2018 A collage of all 136 show images for the 2018 Minnesota Fringe festivals. On Monday night, audience members gathered at the University of Minnesota to see the first of three preview events for the 2018 Minnesota Fringe Festival. The offerings? Three-minute previews of 21 Fringe shows – just enough to whet
Fringe File 2018 #5 – Q&A with Actor Corey DiNardo of Cyrano on the Moon Arts Music Theatre by Basil Considine - July 16, 2018July 16, 2018 Actor Corey DiNardo, who plays Christian in the upcoming Fringe show Cyrano on the Moon. Today's Fringe File installment is a Q&A with actor Corey DiNardo, who plays Christian in Red Dice Collective's production of Cyrano on the Moon. This ongoing series looks at the assorted people who make Fringe shows possible, onstage
REVIEW: Uneven Capitol Steps (Ordway) Arts Theatre by Dan Reiva - July 14, 2018July 14, 2018 A promotional photo for The Capitol Steps, a DC-based troupe that performed on June 30, 2018 at the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts in St. Paul, MN. Photo by Violet Crown Photo Works. The Capitol Steps is a unique comic ensemble that performs political satire set to the melodies of pop