Fringe File #14: Mini-Reviews #3 Arts Comedy Dance Music Theatre by Twin Cities Arts Reader - August 6, 2019August 9, 2019 A collage of promotional images of shows reviewed in this article. All is Bright Five years after its last Minnesota Fringe appearance, the New York City-based Shelby Company is back with a hilarious new comedy. Underneath All is Bright's "people talking at a bar" schtick is a powerful comedy executed with exquisite
NEWS: Hot Asian Doctor Husband in Demand (Theater Mu) Arts Theatre by Hanne Appelbaum - August 5, 2019August 6, 2019 A photo of hot peppers. It seems that everyone wants to get their hands on a hot Asian doctor husband right now. Theater Mu's production of Hot Asian Doctor Husband, a play by Leah Nanako Winkler, has sold out its opening night two weeks before the show is scheduled to open.
Fringe File #13: Mini-Reviews #2 Arts Dance Music Theatre by Twin Cities Arts Reader - August 4, 2019August 4, 2019 A collage of promotional images for shows reviewed in this article. Saturday saw the first officially sold out performance of the 2019 Minnesota Fringe Festival, The Winding Sheet Outfit's You Are Cordially Invited to the Life and Death of Edward Lear. Hot on its heels was Devious Mechanics' Edith Gets High,
Fringe File #12: INTERVIEW: Aidan Jhane Gallivan on Chocolate Covered Chicken Wings Arts Theatre by Basil Considine - August 3, 2019August 4, 2019 A scene from Chocolate Covered Chicken Wings, now playing at the Minnesota Fringe Festival. One of the Minnesota Fringe Festival shows playing at the Augsburg Studio is Chocolate Covered Chicken Wings. This play with an unusual culinary title was written by Catherine Hansen and is produced by Paradox Productions. The Arts
REVIEW: Rare Dafne Brought to Light (Twin Cities Early Music Festival) Arts Music Opera Theatre Visual Arts by Basil Considine - August 3, 2019August 3, 2019 A 16th-century painting of the Greek legend of Apollo and Daphne by Paolo Veronese, showing Daphne morphing into a tree in front of Apollo's anguished eyes. The featured portions of the Twin Cities Early Music Festival launched yesterday with a performance of Marco da Gagliano's 1608 opera La Dafne. The rarely performed
Fringe File #11: Mini-Reviews #1 Arts Music Theatre by Twin Cities Arts Reader - August 2, 2019August 5, 2019 A promotional image for Edith Gets High, one of several shows to open last night with the start of the Minnesota Fringe Festival. The main Minnesota Fringe Festival opened last night. Over the next week and a half, roughly 50,000 tickets will be sold as audiences flock to the largest theatre
Fringe File #10: The Out-of-Town Previews Arts Comedy Dance Music Theatre by Twin Cities Arts Reader - August 1, 2019August 2, 2019 A collage of promotional images from the Minnesota Fringe Festival's out-of-town preview event. 'Twas the night before Fringe, and all through the house, there were squeakings and stirrings of Mr/Ms Theatre Mouse. The last step in the Minnesota Fringe Festival's preview process is in many ways one of the most exciting:
NEWS: Ordway’s SIX Heading to Broadway Arts Dance Music Theatre by Amy Donahue - August 1, 2019August 2, 2019 The musical SIX. Photo by Liz Lauren, courtesy of Chicago Shakespeare Theater. A musical exploration of the wives of Henry VIII is heading straight from the Ordway to Broadway. SIX, a new musical by Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss, will play at the Ordway from November 29 to December 22, 2019.
Fringe File #9: A Working Mom’s Guide to the 2nd Day of Fringe Arts Dance Theatre by Hanne Appelbaum - August 1, 2019August 2, 2019 A walking itinerary for the 2nd day of the Minnesota Fringe Festival. As a working mother, I prize my evenings out. After getting the kids settled enough to walk out the door, paying for a babysitter, and coordinating schedules with someone else, there are some things that I just don't want to
REVIEW: Energetic Fiddler on the Roof Arrives (Orpheum Theatre/Hennepin Theatre Trust) Arts Dance Music Theatre by Basil Considine - July 31, 2019July 31, 2019 The cast of the Fiddler on the Roof national tour, now playing at the Orpheum Theatre in Minneapolis. Photo by Joan Marcus. There's not much new that can be written about Fiddler on the Roof, one of the most-beloved and most-performed shows in the American musical theatre canon. Its songs are as