REVIEW: Scapegoat (Pillsbury House Theatre)

by Bev Wolfe -

The cast of Scapegoat (left-to-right): Dan Hopman, Regina Marie Williams, James A. Williams, Jennifer Blagen. Photo by Bruce Silcox. The world premiere of Scapegoat, a new play by Christina M. Ham, opened this past weekend at Pillsbury House Theatre. The play is based upon the 1919 massacre of a group of black

PREVIEW: Rigoletto at the Capri Theater

by Hanne Appelbaum -

Rigoletto (Jeehoon Kim), Gilda (Jennifer Zabelsky), Maddalena (Megan O'Leary), and the Duke (Joshua Diaz) in Really Spicy Opera's production of Rigoletto. Tonight, Really Spicy Opera opens Rigoletto at the Capri Theater in North Minneapolis. It's been twelve years since Minnesota Opera staged this tale of love, lust, and revenge gone awry; before that, the last

REVIEW: Sinuous Pilobolus Dance Theatre Show (Ordway)

by Dan Reiva -

Pilobolus Dance Theatre presented five recent pieces and one older work from its repertoire in a performance last weekend at the Ordway.  With the possible exception of choreographers from the Judson Church Dance Theatre or the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Pilobolus presents the best avant-garde movement in modern dance.  It

REVIEW: Trouble in Mind (Guthrie Theater)

by Bev Wolfe -

Photo by Keri Pickett. Trouble in Mind, which opened this past weekend at the Guthrie Theater, is a humorous and gripping play that is not often produced. The author, Alice Childress, was an African-American actress whose notoriety as a “left-wing” playwright merited her own FBI investigative file in the 1950s. The

INTERVIEW: Kelly Kaduce of The Shining

by Basil Considine -

Wendy (Kelly Kaduce) and Danny (Alejandro Vega) Torrance meditate on the strange turns that their life has taken in The Shining. Photo by Ken Howard. Soprano Kelly Kaduce is Minnesota-born and raised, but since graduating from St. Olaf's she has traveled and sung all across the United States. The month of May finds

The Look of The Shining

by Twin Cities Arts Reader -

Minnesota Opera's The Shining returns on Thursday to the stage of the Music Theater at the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts. Here's a detailed look at the opera's visual spark. What goes into this? Some of the key players in crafting the opera's look were stage director Eric Simonson, choreographer Heidi

REVIEW: The Shining = Brilliant Psychodrama (Minnesota Opera)

by Basil Considine -

A disturbed Jack Torrance (Brian Mulligan) menaces his wife Wendy (Kelly Kaduce) and son Danny (Alejandro Vega) in The Shining. Photo by Ken Howard. Minnesota Opera's 2015-2016 season comes to a crashing bang with The Shining, an adaptation of the bestselling horror novel by Stephen King. The main thing wrong with this production appears

Top