Euan KerrComedian Bill Cosby today cancelled two concerts scheduled for May 31 at Orchestra Hall in Minneapolis. The Minnesota Orchestra, which was presenting the shows, said in a release that the cancellations were due to “lower than anticipated ticket sales.” They will be rescheduled at some as yet unspecified date, orchestra officials said. The Cosby shows were Read more →
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Marianne Combs
Walking Shadow Theatre Company has taken on Alexandre Dumas’ great adventure novel “The Three Musketeers.” While the book has been adapted for stage and screen numerous times before, playwright John Heimbuch went back to the source for this new production. Many critics found the show a spirited delight, if a bit long, featuring plenty of Read more →
“It’s really about bringing international visionaries to the Twin Cities,” Performing Arts Curator Philip Bither said of the season he is announcing today. Read more →
The Walker Art Center has announced this summer’s round of music and movies in the park, and the films all center on the theme of time Read more →
Chris Roberts
This week, the hounds rhapsodize about writers flooding the MIA, a revealing bio-play about a courageous photographer and her lust for life, and a DJ who hypnotizes with his beats. (Want to be an Art Hound? Sign up!) Playwright and Workhaus Collective co-founder Trista Baldwin felt a life force surge through her when she went to Read more →
The reviews are in for ‘The Working Boys Band’ at History Theatre Read more →
The Minnesota Opera has announced it is co-commissioning and co-producing “Cold Mountain,” a new opera by Pulitzer Prize winner Jennifer Higdon. Gene Scheer is the librettist. “Cold Mountain’ will be based on the novel of the same name by Charles Frazier. Made into a film in 2003, it recounts the story of a Confederate soldier Read more →
The History Theatre in St. Paul has announced its next season of plays, and they include a new one by the host of A Prairie Home Companion, Garrison Keillor. The season opens on Sept. 27 with the world premiere of Keillor’s first full-length play, “Radio Man,” which offers a glimpse of life working on the Read more →
Jeff Alexander
Comparing the Wizard World Minneapolis Comic Con to San Diego’s Comic-Con International, which I attended last July, would be a little ridiculous. Whereas SDCC’s estimated 130,000 attendees took over downtown San Diego for the better part of a week, last weekend’s local event didn’t even take over the whole Minneapolis Convention Center. Any comparison would Read more →
Penumbra Theatre releases details of its next season today, revealing a focus on the struggles of women. The company is using the title “Womensong” “Experiences of gender are personal and political, complicated by race, class, sexuality, religion, and place. This season we examine these complex and powerful intersections,” said Co-Artistic Director Sarah Bellamy in a Read more →