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
NEWS: The O’Shaughnessy’s 2024-2025 Season Arts Dance Music Theatre by Twin Cities Arts Reader - July 24, 2024 A promotional image for Ananya Dance Theater's ANTARANGA: Between You and Me, one of 13 events in the O'Shaugnessy's just-announced 2024-2025 season. Photo by Canaan Mattson. The O’Shaughnessy at St. Catherine's University has announced its 2024-2025 season. The 13 new events include a wholly free program and anchor performances such as
NEWS: Performance Today’s Fred Child to Step Down Next Year Arts by Twin Cities Arts Reader - July 24, 2024 American Public Media announced yesterday that Fred Child - the Host and Senior Editor of YourClassical’s Performance Today® – will step down in October 2025. Child will step down at the completion of an extraordinary 25-year run as host of America’s most popular classical music radio show. Performance Today is broadcast
REVIEW: Moving, Funny, Striking English (Guthrie Theater) Arts Theatre by Basil Considine - July 22, 2024July 22, 2024 Sahar Bibiyan as Roya in the Guthrie Theater's production of English, now playing through August 18. Photo by Liz Lauren. There are few theatrical shows for which sound design and dialect coaching are more essential than the Guthrie Theater/Goodman Theatre production of English. This humorous, moving, and always engaging play perfectly
REVIEW: The Time for Newsies is Now (Artistry) Arts Music Theatre by Basil Considine - July 21, 2024July 21, 2024 Singer-actor Tyson Insixiengmai as Crutchie in Artistry's production of Disney's Newsies: The Musical, currently playing at the Bloomington Center for the Arts. Photo by Dan Norman. During its original Broadway run, the musical Newsies was only a modest success. What a difference a decade makes – in Artistry's just-opened production, the
FEATURE: From Northfield to Cultural Ambassador: Victoria Erickson, Soprano and DAAD Scholar Arts Music Opera Theatre by John Anderson - July 9, 2024July 9, 2024 Minnesota singer and Opera Athena Creative Director Victoria Erickson in the 2024 premiere of the opera The Miller's Daughter, for which she wrote the libretto. The city of Northfield, Minnesota has long had an outsize influence on the larger world. In its early role as an agricultural hub, it exported flours
PREVIEW: Behind the Story – Before Out of the Box Opera’s Suor Angelica Arts Music Opera Theatre by Basil Considine - June 24, 2024June 24, 2024 The interior of the Basilica of St. Mary in Minneapolis, MN, which will host Out of the Box Opera's production of Puccini's opera Suor Angelica. In the spring of 1904, the composer Giacomo Puccini was at an impasse. To the public eye, his life and career were flying high: he had
NEWS: First Look at Purple Rain Musical on Saturday, June 22 Arts Music Theatre by Twin Cities Arts Reader - June 21, 2024 The stage musical adaptation of Prince's legendary film and album Purple Rain is taking shape. The musical, scheduled to run April 10-May 11, 2025 at the historic State Theatre in Minneapolis, is filling out its creative team with new members, and will receive a "first look" preview and discussion tomorrow. This stage