REVIEW: Beehive‘s Memory Lane (Old Log Theatre) Arts Dance Music Theatre by Bev Wolfe - July 12, 2018July 12, 2018 Grace Chermak, Emilee Hassanzadeh, Kiko Laureano, Leslie Vincent, and Erin Nicole Farsté in Beehive: The 60s Musical. Photo courtesy of the Old Log Theatre. The Sixties is a very special time for me. I was 3 when the decade began and became a teenager just as the Sixties ended. Groups like
Fringe File 2018 #4 – INTERVIEW: Larissa Marten and I Killed the Cow Arts Theatre by Basil Considine - July 11, 2018July 11, 2018 Actor and show co-creator Larissa Marten in I Killed the Cow. Browse the list of shows for the 2018 Minnesota Fringe and you'll find a show called I Killed the Cow. Unlike last year's Queen of Delicious Animals, however, this animal-titled show is not about complicated relationships with animals that you
Fringe File 2018, #3 – INTERVIEW: On the Creation of Not Fair, My Lady! Arts Dance Music Theatre by Basil Considine - July 10, 2018July 9, 2018 The company for Colleen Somerville Productions' Not Fair, My Lady! One of the original musicals in the 2018 Minnesota Fringe Festival lineup is the catchingly named Not Fair, My Lady! Its marketing copy reads "It's 2018 and misogyny is alive and well on Broadway. And in the world. Everywhere. Let's...sing about it!
PREVIEW: The Best Summer Ever! Yes? (Children’s Theatre Company) Arts Music Theatre by Twin Cities Arts Reader - July 9, 2018 Kevin Kling and Victor Zupanc "pondering" the Children's Theatre Company production of The Best Summer Ever! Photo by Kaitlin Randolph. It's been a long time since Osseo native Kevin Kling's autobiographical solo play Home and Away took him to New York City and back. It also went to a few other
Fringe File 2018, #2 – INTERVIEW: Amber Bjork’s Musical Walk through a Bloodbath in Blood Nocturne Arts Music Theatre by Basil Considine - July 9, 2018August 13, 2019 Emily Dussault as Báthory Erzsébet (Elizabeth Bathory) in The Winding Sheet Outfit's production of Blood Nocturne. Báthory Erzsébet, or Elizabeth Bathory as she's more commonly known in English, holds an infamous title: history's most prolific murderess. A Hungarian noblewoman, Countess Bathory (1562-1614) was arrested by a royal agent on December 30,
Fringe File 2018, #1 – Intro to Fringe Fest & Family Fringe Arts Dance Music Theatre by Hanne Appelbaum - July 8, 2018July 9, 2018 A collage of promotional images for the 2018 Minnesota Fringe Festival. One week ago, Minnesota Fringe released the schedule for its 25th Annual Fringe Festival and the inaugural, concurrent Family Fringe. Since then, a certain breed of Fringe fans has been poring over the schedule and show list, planning everything from
REVIEW: Classic Rockin’ Gals in Beehive: The 60s Musical (Old Log Theatre) Arts Dance Music Theatre by Basil Considine - July 6, 2018July 7, 2018 The Ensemble (Grace Chermak, Gracie Kay Anderson, Erin Nicole Farsté, Kiko Laureano, Leslie Vincent, Emilee Hassanzadeh, and Allyson Tolbert) gets ready to go-go in the Old Log Theatre's production of Beehives: The 60s Musical. Photo courtesy of the Old Log Theatre. The purpose of a musical revue is generally to showcase two things:
NEWS: New Leadership at The Moving Company Arts Theatre by Twin Cities Arts Reader - July 5, 2018July 6, 2018 The Moving Company announced the appointment today of Larisa Netterlund as the company's newly created Executive Director. Since its establishment in 2008, The Moving Company has built a reputation for vivid theatrical works with alternately comic and dramatic tones. It has been led since its inception by Co-Aristic Directors Dominique Serrand
REVIEW: The Hunt A-Foot in Underneath the Lintel (Theater Latte Da) Arts Theatre by Bev Wolfe - July 4, 2018July 5, 2018 Sally Wingert in Theater Latté Da's production of Underneath the Lintel by Glen Berger. Photo by Dan Norman. This retrospective review revisits Theater Latté Da's recent production of Underneath the Lintel, which closed Sunday. When staging the solo play Underneath the Lintel with Theater Latté Da, Director Peter Rothstein sought a different take on
Fringe 2018: Coverage Roundup Arts Dance Music Theatre by Twin Cities Arts Reader - July 1, 2018July 10, 2018 A collage made from promotional show images from the 2018 Minnesota Fringe Festival. This landing page consolidates all of the Arts Reader's coverage for the 2018 Minnesota Fringe Festival. New interviews, features, previews, and reviews will appear here automatically when published.