‘Blood Knot’ is powerful theater; Rex Reed (yes, that Rex Reed) at Crooners
ALSO: The 50th Annual St. Anthony Park Arts Festival; Open Streets Lyndale in south Minneapolis; and more.
Artscape
Martin Fröst withdraws from SPCO concerts; Prince film to air on TPT
ALSO: The Edina Art Fair is coming up; Theater Latté Da’s “Hedwig” in Concert at the Dakota; and more.
‘The Vikings Begin’ at ASI is small but sensational; Cantus covers Joni Mitchell’s ‘Blue’
ALSO: “How It’s Gon’ Be” at Mixed Blood; Spring Show opening reception at the Bockley Gallery; and more.
Ashley Hanson: Standing up for small towns
First an Obama Foundation Fellow and now a Bush Fellow, Hanson produces plays in rural communities; she is currently working with Granite Falls to find an artist in residence.
‘Caught’ reminds us that we live in a world of lies; ‘Dear Evan Hansen’ to open at the Orpheum
ALSO: Clara Osowski and Jeremy Walker at the Dakota; St. Paul Ballet: “ThreeFold” at the Southern; and more.
The Walker to present ‘a season of this moment in time;’ DaNCEBUMS at the Tek Box
ALSO: Heid E. Erdrich and Rosy Simas “Skew Lines” closing event at Soo Visual Arts Center; Ethan Iverson at Crooners; and more.
The moon rises at the Bell Museum; ‘NOOMA’ is an opera for babies
ALSO: Children’s Theatre Company to create a new punk rock musical; and more.
‘Small Mouth Sounds’ is a play of few words and a lot of heart; Reinaldo Moya’s ‘Tienda’ at TPT
ALSO: Artist-Designed Mini-Golf at the Walker; Flowers of the Kurunci: Melding Dance, Poetry and Music at Mia; and more.
A wild (but hopefully not rainy) weekend; ‘Blood Knot’ to open at Pillsbury House
ALSO: Zeitgeist Plays 113 at Studio Z; “Caught” at Guthrie’s Dowling Studio; and more.
Spring brings new plays and performances; ‘GOT’ series finale on a big screen
ALSO: Garden tours at the Bakken Museum; National Tap Dance Day at Como Lakeside Pavilion; and more.
Doors Open Minneapolis is a key to the city; ‘The Vikings Begin’ at the American Swedish Institute
ALSO: Art4Shelter at the Machine Shop; Lizz Wright at the Dakota; St. Paul’s Music in the Parks kicks off; and more.
‘La Traviata’ shimmers at the Ordway; a weekend of nontraditional performances
There’s a growing appetite for performances that don’t happen in the same places in the same ways.
Mixed Blood’s ‘Autonomy’ is site-specific, supercharged; James Beard winner on Sunday’s ‘Minnesota Original’
In playwright Ken LaZebnik’s words, “Autonomy” is “like an environmental, agitprop Brechtian piece. There’s a lot of humor in it.”
Theater Latté Da to bring back ‘La Bohème,’ Thornetta Davis at the Dakota
ALSO: a composer/choreographer meet-up; MP3 MIXTAPE Part III at the Cowles; the 2019 Spring Craft’za; and more.
Seven reasons to see ‘The Brothers Paranormal’; Pottery Tour coming up
ALSO: My Brightest Diamond with Tunde Olaniran at the Cedar; “The Man Who Killed Don Quixote”; 4th Annual Lit Crawl.
New Jungle and Ten Thousand Things seasons; Out of the Box Opera at the A-Mill
ALSO: Author Charles C. Mann at Club Book; “Her Smell” screening at the Trylon; Black Label Movement’s “Teamwork 2.0”; and more.
Osmo Vänskä named music director of Seoul Philharmonic; Northfield student wins Poetry Out Loud
ALSO: Pen Pals season announced; Matilda the Musical, St. Paul Cinco de Mayo celebration; and more.
A whole lot of leadership changes; James McVinnie to play Northrop’s big organ
ALSO: Taste of Iceland; Jennifer Koh Plays Bernstein’s Serenade; TU Dance 15th Anniversary Season Spring Performance; and more.
‘Music for Mandela’ to air on TPT; Dee Dee Bridgewater at the Dakota
ALSO: Coen Brothers film fest; protest music at the Ordway; Cherríe Moraga at Hook & Ladder; and more.
Schubert Club announces Accordo, Mix seasons
ALSO: Louis Bayard presents “Courting Mr. Lincoln” at Magers & Quinn; Mathew Janczewski’s Arena Dances 3rd Annual Candy Box Dance Festival; and more.
