REVIEW: Everything Great About Minnesota Opera’s La Traviata Arts Music Opera Theatre Visual Arts by Basil Considine - May 7, 2019May 7, 2019 Jésus León and Nicole Cabell star as doomed lovers Alfredo and Violetta in Minnesota Opera's La Traviata, now playing at the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts in St. Paul, MN. Photo by Dan Norman. Editor's Note: This is the second of two reviews looking at Minnesota Opera's production of La
NEWS: Jungle Theater Announces 2019-2020 Season Arts Music Theatre by Twin Cities Arts Reader - May 7, 2019May 8, 2019 The Jungle Theater in Minneapolis announced its 2019-2020 season last night. The coming season will bring cyclones, doll houses, redwoods, Mary Janes, and Cambodian rock bands, plus a reprise of Jane Austen double features. It includes five local premieres, two revivals running in repertory, and a musical collaboration with Theater
REVIEW: Everything Wrong with Minnesota Opera’s La Traviata Arts Music Opera Theatre Visual Arts by Basil Considine - May 6, 2019May 7, 2019 The famous Brindisi scene in Minnesota Opera's production of La Traviata, which opened Saturday at the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts in St. Paul, MN. Photo by Dan Norman. Editor's Note: This is the first of two reviews looking at Minnesota Opera's production of La Traviata, which opened on Saturday
PREVIEW: Hilarious The Play That Goes Wrong Opens Tomorrow (Hennepin Theatre Trust) Arts Theatre Visual Arts by Amy Donahue - May 6, 2019May 7, 2019 Things quickly start going wrong to hilarious effect during The Play Goes Wrong's play-within-a-play The Murder at Haversham Manor, which opens at the Orpheum Theatre in Minneapolis, MN on Tuesday, May 7. Photo by Jeremy Daniel. Making fun of theatre is a very British tradition. While many U.S. theatre audiences are
PHOTOS: A Look at the Children’s Theatre Company’s Matilda Arts Dance Music Theatre by Twin Cities Arts Reader - April 30, 2019April 30, 2019 Sofia Salmela as Matilda in the Children's Theatre Company production of Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical. Photo by Dan Norman. In 1988, author Roald Dahl produced a new children's novel called Matilda. It was more than two decades since the publication of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory made him famous in
NEWS: 2019 Tony Award Nominations Announced Arts Dance Music Theatre Visual Arts by Amy Donahue - April 30, 2019April 30, 2019 Nominees for the 2019 Tony Awards were announced this morning. Notably, the musical Hadestown: The Myth. The Musical. received 14 nominations, while To Kill a Mockingbird (unpopular, perhaps, due to a high-profile licensing battle that canceled theatre productions around the country) and Network received none for Best Play. The annual Tony Awards are
INTERVIEW: Felicity Jones Latta on Metamorphoses, Misdirected Star Wars Mail, & Pre-Show Laughs Arts Theatre Visual Arts by Basil Considine - April 29, 2019April 29, 2019 The cast of the Guthrie Theater and Berkeley Repertory Theatre’s co-production of Metamorphoses by Mary Zimmerman. Photo by Dan Norman. Actor Felicity Jones Latta has had a few homecomings in the Twin Cities, but her current one is blue. Guthrie Theater blue, to be precise. In an uncommon piece of sibling
REVIEW: Too Much of a Good Thing in A Parable of the Sower (O’Shaughnessy) Arts Music Opera Theatre by Basil Considine - April 27, 2019April 29, 2019 A scene from the opera A Parable of the Sower at its Abu Dhabi premiere. Photo by Waleed Shah. The first 45 minutes of the opera A Parable of the Sower, presented in concert form at the O'Shaughnessy last night, are absolutely sensational. If the evening had ended then and there, the
REVIEW: Riveting Metamorphoses Ripples (Guthrie Theater) Arts Dance Theatre Visual Arts by Basil Considine - April 19, 2019April 19, 2019 Orpheus (Alex Moggridge, left) tries to wrest his love from the ravages of death in the Guthrie Theater/Berkeley Repertory Theatre co-production of Mary Zimmerman's play Metamorphoses. The forces of Hades (Steven Epp, Louise Lamson, and Rodney Gardiner) look on with bemusement. Photo by Dan Norman. It is seldom to see a
REVIEW: Betty Buckley Seizes the Spotlight, Never Lets Go in Hello, Dolly! (Orpheum Theatre/Hennepin Theatre Trust) Arts Dance Music Theatre Visual Arts by Basil Considine - April 18, 2019April 18, 2019 The national touring company of Hello, Dolly!, playing through April 28 at the Orpheum Theatre in Minneapolis. Photo by Julieta Cervantes. The poster for the national tour of Hello, Dolly! features just four words: the show title and "Betty Buckley". Look at the poster alone and you might think that's odd. Watch