Euan Kerr
“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 →
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By Euan Kerr
Long time radio guy from Scotland, now covering arts for the MPR Culture Unit, and blathering about film on Cube Critics every Friday.
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 →
While remaining tight-lipped about negotiations over a possible return to the Minnesota Orchestra, former Music Director Osmo Vanska has told the Washington Post a little about the showdown which led to his resignation. In an article published today in advance of Vanska’s appearance with the National Symphony Orchestra this weekend, Vanska reveals how he tried to bring management and Read more →
Minnesota Orchestra Principal Cellist Tony Ross will remain with Minnesota. Read more →
After 19 years as artistic director at the Guthrie Theater Joe Dowling is leaving with a splash. In his farewell season, he will both survey some of the best of his tenure, while also presenting his vision of what the Guthrie is capable of in its three-stage complex on the banks of the Mississippi. Sitting in Read more →
The board of the Minnesota Orchestra met Friday for three hours without taking public action on the futures of president and CEO Michael Henson and former Music Director Osmo Vanska. Read more →
The Minneapolis St Paul International Film Festival released the names of eight of the more than 200 films going to be shown at the fest this year, which runs April 3-19. The full line up will be released early in March. “Club Sandwich” (Fernando Eimbcke, director; Mexico, 2013) A deadpan coming of age story set Read more →
Four Twin Cities theater companies announced a new production collaboration today, the like which may never have been seen before. “I know it’s not duplicated in the Twin Cities. I don’t know of this happening quite this way in any community,” said Richard Cook, artistic director of St. Paul’s Park Square Theatre. The idea is Read more →
Palestinian director Hany Abu-Assad’s “Omar” is a universal story that just happens to be set in his troubled homeland. Read more →
The Minnesota Opera announced its 2014-2015 season this afternoon with a star studded webcast live from the Opera Center in the Minneapolis Warehouse District. Read more →