PHOTOS: A Look at Jelly’s Last Jam (Theater Latté Da) Arts Dance Music Theatre by Twin Cities Arts Reader - April 2, 2022April 2, 2022 Andre Shoals as the Chimney Man in the Theater Latté Da production of Jelly’s Last Jam. Photo by Dan Norman. "Jelly Roll" may seem an odd nickname for a musician. At the start of the 20th century, the term certainly referred to the familiar dessert – but in African-American slang of
PREVIEW: The Rape of Lucretia (An Opera Theatre) Arts Music Opera Theatre by Amy Donahue - April 1, 2022April 2, 2022 Lucretia (mezzo-soprano Kara Morgan) holds a laurel wreath – symbolizing honor in ancient Roman society – in An Opera Theatre's production of The Rape of Lucretia, which opens this evening at the Southern Theater in Minneapolis, MN. Photo courtesy of An Opera Theatre. Twin Cities opera fans have a lot of choices in
NEWS: Ordway Announces New Season With Return of SIX, Beauty and the Beast, Patti LuPone Arts Music Theatre by Twin Cities Arts Reader - March 29, 2022April 7, 2022 Broadway legend Patti LuPone, of numerous Sondheim and other musicals' fame, will headline a concert in the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts' upcoming season. Photo by Axel Dupeux. The Ordway Center for the Performing Arts in St. Paul, Minnesota announced its latest season this evening. The 2022-2023 theatrical season will
NEWS: The Puppet Lab Returns (Open Eye Theatre) Arts Theatre by Twin Cities Arts Reader - March 29, 2022 The latest leadership and residency artist cohort for Open Eye Theatre's Puppet Lab. Clockwise from left: Rebekah Crisanta de Ybarra, Dominique Herskind, Mary Plaster, Amoke Awele Kubat, Liping Vong, and Oanh Vu. Rain and snow may be making their return on Wednesday, but Open Eye Theatre has something better: the return
NEWS: Emerging Curators Institute Announces New Cohort Arts Visual Arts by Twin Cities Arts Reader - March 27, 2022 A collage showing the 2022-2023 Emerging Curators Institute Fellows. The Emerging Curators Institute (ECI) has announced the recipients of its latest cohort of early-career fellowships. Recipients receive in-depth research support, professional development, and presentation training to prepare them for careers as museum and other curators. Unusually, the five recipients include two artist-curators
REVIEW: A Brilliant Savoy Soap Opera is Ruddigore (GSVLOC) Arts Dance Music Opera Theatre by Basil Considine - March 20, 2022April 1, 2022 Part of the cover plate for the original vocal score of Ruddigore, prior to the opera's renaming. Had the comic opera writing duo W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan lived a half-century later, they would have assuredly written for the emergent genre of the day: television soap operas. If they had lived
REVIEW: Hurry Down the Road to Hell in Hadestown (Orpheum/Hennepin Theatre Trust) Arts Dance Music Theatre by Boo Segersin - March 15, 2022March 17, 2022 Kevyn Morrow and Kimberly Marable in the North American tour of Hadestown, which opened Tuesday at the Orpheum Theatre in Minneapolis, MN. Photo by T Charles Erickson. To call the musical Hadestown a success is an understatement. To call it a masterpiece, however, just might hit the mark. The show took home
PREVIEW: From Vermont Hell to World Hit: Hadestown‘s Journey to Broadway (Orpheum Theatre/HTT) Arts Music Theatre by Basil Considine - March 10, 2022March 10, 2022 The North American touring cast of the musical Hadestown, which plays at the Orpheum Theatre in Minneapolis, MN from March 15-20, 2022. Photo by T Charles Erickson. It took 13 years for the musical Hadestown to go to hell on Broadway. If that's not poetic, the subject certainly is: a struggling musician weds
REVIEW: Enjoying Waitress is as Easy as Pie (Ordway) Arts Music Theatre by Boo Segersin - March 9, 2022March 9, 2022 Jisel Soleil Ayon in the national touring production of Waitress: The Musical, now playing at the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts in St. Paul, MN. Photo by Jeremy Daniel. If you have a sweet tooth for beautiful music, powerful stories, and a lot of sugar, then Waitress: The Musical is just
PREVIEW: Waitress at the Ordway Arts Music Theatre by Bev Wolfe - March 8, 2022March 8, 2022 Gabriella Marzetta as Dawn and Brian Lundy as Ogie in the national tour of Waitress: The Musical, which opens tonight in St. Paul, MN. Photo by Jeremy Daniel. The Ordway Center for the Performing Arts is ending its Broadway show season with a bake-off. Pie baking, to be precise – a