A new performing arts series at Westminster Hall; a daylong festival of music by women at Crooners
ALSO: Author Christopher Ingraham at Magers & Quinn; SPCO’s opening weekend at the Ordway; and more.
Artscape
Sting Q&A on songwriting and musical colleagues; Knight gives $2 million to St. Paul
It felt surreal to be in the Ordway Concert Hall on Sunday while Sting played acoustic guitar and sang. He was here to promote “The Last Ship,” his play that will come to the Ordway next April.
American Pottery Festival this weekend; let the theater season begin
PLUS: Journey North Opera’s “The Rape of Lucretia”; a 35W walking tour; Margaret Atwood Live; and more.
Dance Showcase features seven local companies at the Cowles
ALSO: Margaret Atwood “The Testaments” Midnight Release Party; The Bakken Trio: Siren Songs at MacPhail; and more.
Walking Shadow’s ‘Cabal’ is a puzzler of a play, and that’s a good thing
ALSO: Garrison Ceramics Collection Gallery Talk at the American Swedish Institute; Art + Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon at the American Craft Council; and more.
The Great Black Music Ensemble will perform in Minneapolis. Here are 3 reasons to go.
The Great Black Music Ensemble will perform at the Cedar on Sept. 6. These Chicago-based musicians are masters of improvisation and creative music.
Jim Denomie is the 2019 McKnight Distinguished Artist; Latin jazz at the Dakota
ALSO: “RISK! Live” at the Amsterdam; “Luce” at St. Anthony Main Theatre; and more.
Theater 45º debuts at Plymouth Congregational; Cedar Thoms album release at Icehouse
ALSO: New McKnight fellowships – for book artists; Silver Jubilee exhibition at the Textile Center; and more.
Westminster Town Hall Forum’s fall lineup; ETHEL’s Kip Jones at Jazz Central
ALSO: “Deconstructing the Beatles: Abbey Road Side 2” at the Lagoon; 6th Annual Altered Aesthetics Film Festival at the Trylon; and more.
Club Book to feature Bram Stoker’s great-grand-nephew and the author of a ‘Doctor Zhivago’ thriller
ALSO: A one-hour “Peer Gynt” at Norway House; Liz Draper and Tasha Baron at Icehouse; and more.
Fine arts, performing arts, bands and butter: Arts at the Fair
The arts at the Minnesota State Fair are abundant, varied and (except for the Grandstand shows) free with admission.
Theater Mu’s ‘Hot Asian Doctor Husband’ is two plays in one, but that’s OK
ALSO: Maria Jette sings French songs at Crooners; “Interlace: A Contemporary Dance Performance” at the Southern; and more.
In ‘Jay Myself,’ a photographer downsizes; Jearlyn Steele at Crooners
ALSO: André Watts bows out of Minnesota Orchestra season opener; Flying Foot Forum’s “French Twist” in White Bear Lake; and more.
Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra announces playful, creative 2019-20 season; Los Lobos at the Ordway
ALSO: Gregory Porter at the Fitzgerald; St. Paul Food Truck Festival in Mears Park; and more.
Twin Cities Book Festival authors announced; ‘Sounds for Silents’ at the Walker
ALSO: “Rent” at the Orpheum; 21st Annual Japanese Obon Festival coming up at Como Park; and more.
‘Hadestown’ is coming; Iranian Film Festival to begin
ALSO: “The Clemency of Tito’s Tennis Club: A Picnic Operetta”; “Blue Note Records: Beyond the Notes” at the Trylon; and more.
New art at the Guthrie, and a Happening about survival; Irv Williams’ 100th at the Dakota
ALSO: Lit Voices featuring E.G. Bailey and Shá Cage at 900 Hennepin; Louie Kemp presents “Dylan & Me: 50 Years of Adventures” at Magers & Quinn; and more.
‘Honeyland’ opens at the St. Anthony Main; Plein Air Smackdown at Coldwater Spring
ALSO: Kamasi Washington at First Avenue; Ballet Co.Laboratory Presents “Remembering the Little Prince” in Hudson, Wisconsin; and more.
New leaders at Mill City Summer Opera; Cat Video Festival at CHS Field
ALSO: Minnesota Fringe Festival; Bruce Hornsby & the Noisemakers at the Pantages; and more.
Guthrie’s ‘Floyd’s’ is sweet, biting — and very funny
ALSO: Source Song Festival; Irish Fair of Minnesota on Harriet Island; “When the Shark Bites: Hauptmann & Brecht, Lenya & Weill” at Open Eye; and more.
