Fringe File 2018, #1 – Intro to Fringe Fest & Family Fringe Arts Dance Music Theatre by Hanne Appelbaum - July 8, 2018July 9, 2018 A collage of promotional images for the 2018 Minnesota Fringe Festival. One week ago, Minnesota Fringe released the schedule for its 25th Annual Fringe Festival and the inaugural, concurrent Family Fringe. Since then, a certain breed of Fringe fans has been poring over the schedule and show list, planning everything from
REVIEW: Classic Rockin’ Gals in Beehive: The 60s Musical (Old Log Theatre) Arts Dance Music Theatre by Basil Considine - July 6, 2018July 7, 2018 The Ensemble (Grace Chermak, Gracie Kay Anderson, Erin Nicole Farsté, Kiko Laureano, Leslie Vincent, Emilee Hassanzadeh, and Allyson Tolbert) gets ready to go-go in the Old Log Theatre's production of Beehives: The 60s Musical. Photo courtesy of the Old Log Theatre. The purpose of a musical revue is generally to showcase two things:
NEWS: New Leadership at The Moving Company Arts Theatre by Twin Cities Arts Reader - July 5, 2018July 6, 2018 The Moving Company announced the appointment today of Larisa Netterlund as the company's newly created Executive Director. Since its establishment in 2008, The Moving Company has built a reputation for vivid theatrical works with alternately comic and dramatic tones. It has been led since its inception by Co-Aristic Directors Dominique Serrand
REVIEW: The Hunt A-Foot in Underneath the Lintel (Theater Latte Da) Arts Theatre by Bev Wolfe - July 4, 2018July 5, 2018 Sally Wingert in Theater Latté Da's production of Underneath the Lintel by Glen Berger. Photo by Dan Norman. This retrospective review revisits Theater Latté Da's recent production of Underneath the Lintel, which closed Sunday. When staging the solo play Underneath the Lintel with Theater Latté Da, Director Peter Rothstein sought a different take on
Fringe 2018: Coverage Roundup Arts Dance Music Theatre by Twin Cities Arts Reader - July 1, 2018July 10, 2018 A collage made from promotional show images from the 2018 Minnesota Fringe Festival. This landing page consolidates all of the Arts Reader's coverage for the 2018 Minnesota Fringe Festival. New interviews, features, previews, and reviews will appear here automatically when published.
REVIEW: John Fogerty & ZZ Top (Treasure Island) Arts Music by Brian Bix - June 30, 2018July 1, 2018 A promotional photo of ZZ Top sporting their trademark beards. For a few years at the end of the 1960s and the beginning of the 1970s, Creedence Clearwater Revival (CCR), was the most popular rock band in the United States. With John Fogerty as lead singer and primary songwriter, CCR was a band
REVIEW: Thomasina Petrus Shines in Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill (Jungle Theater) Arts Music Theatre by Bev Wolfe - June 29, 2018June 29, 2018 Many jazz greats passed away long before I could see them. Billie Holiday, also known as Lady Day, was among the greatest of the jazz greats. I never had an opportunity to see Billie Holiday sing live, but I suspect that Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill is the
REVIEW: Run, Do Not Walk, to Love Never Dies (Orpheum/Hennepin Theatre Trust) Arts Dance Music Theatre by Basil Considine - June 28, 2018June 29, 2018 Meghan Picerno as Christine Daaé in the national tour of Love Never Dies. Photo by Joan Marcus. If you have any interest in Phantom of the Opera, you should go see Love Never Dies. If you're interested in musicals but not super into Phantom of the Opera, you should probably see
REVIEW: Stylized New West Side Story Beauty to Behold (Guthrie Theater) Arts Dance Music Theatre by Basil Considine - June 27, 2018June 27, 2018 The cast of the Guthrie Theater’s production of West Side Story. Photo by T Charles Erickson. The Guthrie Theater's new production of the classic musical West Side Story is many things. The heavily stylized production is brilliantly adapted to the Wurtele Thrust Stage, features sparkling new choreography by Maija Garcia, and
REVIEW: Jackson Browne’s Still Got Steam (State Theatre) Arts Music by Dan Reiva - June 27, 2018June 27, 2018 A collage of recording artist Jackson Browne's numerous album covers. Jackson Browne’s concert last Tuesday at the State Theatre in Minneapolis demonstrated that he is in fine voice and far away from running on empty. The concert provided fans a golden opportunity to hear the best examples of Browne’s more than