Music, theater, books and dance for your Thanksgiving week
Artscape will go on break next week and return on Tuesday, Dec. 1. We’ll leave you with a handful of ways to experience our local arts scene.
Pamela Espeland
Pamela Espeland writes the Artscape column for MinnPost. She also writes for the Star Tribune, NPR and mnartists.org, blogs at bebopified.com, and is an Art Hound for Minnesota Public Radio. She can be reached at pespeland@minnpost.com.
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A few words about Dominick Argento and the Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra; new COVID restrictions will affect the arts
ALSO: British Arrows Greatest Hits via the Walker; Jazz Fest Live; and more.
‘The Queen’s Gambit’ is a perfect distraction; Thursday is Give to the Max Day
ALSO: A new dance film at the Northrop; a life of John Steinbeck; and more.
MCAD Art Sale goes virtual; Charles Baxter to launch new novel, ‘The Sun Collective’
ALSO: a conversation with Carolyn Mazloomi and Dorothy Burge; National Book Awards online; Thunder Band at the Cedar; and more.
Minnesota Opera’s Ryan Taylor: ‘We have everything on the table’
In March of this year, when COVID hit, Minnesota Opera canceled the rest of its 2019-20 season, then returned in August with a mostly digital Fall 2020. It began with a program at CHS Field and continues this weekend with 2016’s “Das Rheingold.”
‘Art in This Present Moment’ features right-now work by BIPOC artists; History Theatre presents Tim O’Brien’s ‘The Things They Carried’
Plus: Jeopardy! behind the scenes; finding realness in our digital lives; Eric Utne’s memoir; and more.
Rock the Garden 2021 won’t happen; SPCO cancels the rest of its 2020-21 season
Also: catching up with Sheila Smith, executive director of Minnesota Citizens for the Arts.
Sound Unseen Film + Music festival goes virtual; events for Kao Kalia Yang’s latest book
ALSO: Panel discussion “Art vs. the Artist: Wagner’s Das Rheingold”; celebration of “The Best American Short Stories 2020”; and more.
Magnus Nilsson: ‘It’s not enough to be creative. You still have to be able to write.’
Nilsson will launch his latest book, “Fäviken: 4015 Days, Beginning to End,” on Saturday (Nov. 7) at 11 a.m. during a special online talk presented by the American Swedish Institute.
British Arrows tradition lives on; Midori to perform a virtual concert from the Ordway
ALSO: On the Children’s Theatre website: “Last Stop on Market Street”; Eddie Glaude Jr. on “James Baldwin’s Lessons on Race in America” at a virtual Westminster Town Hall Forum; and more.
Guthrie cancels three-play season set for March 2021; Nikki Giovanni at Pen Pals
ALSO: Gingerbread Wonderland at Norway House; Ragamala Dance Company and Northrop present “Foods for the Souls: Food Rituals in the Diaspora”; and more.
Leadership changes at Open Eye Theatre; on-demand performances by local artists
ALSO: The Moving Company’s “Liberty Falls 2020”; Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra’s “The Mahler Project”; and more.
Latté Da’s ‘All Is Calm’ to air on PBS in November; a new musical about Harold Stassen?
ALSO: Schubert Club moves more events online, postpones others; Amreeka: Election Night Comedy Special online; and more.
Guthrie, Minnesota Orchestra add to programming; Park Square presents Halloween shows
ALSO: Theater Mu presents virtual “China Doll” and Mu-tini Hour; National Lutheran Choir’s online “All Saints” program; and more.
New shows open at Mia and Highpoint; Regina Marie Williams reads ‘Fannie Lou Hamer: Speak On It!’
ALSO: A virtual SPCO “Postcards Across the Atlantic”; Hennepin History Museum’s Introduction to Crop Art; and more.
Brian Newhouse named to Minnesota Orchestra post; Twin Cities Horror Festival to open
ALSO: Black Label Movement and Ragamala Dance Company videos; a virtual “Tempest,” set in a women’s prison; and more.
Brian Liebeck of Icehouse: ‘The thing that kept us alive this summer was being able to do outdoor shows’
Lucky for Icehouse – very, very lucky – it has a large outdoor courtyard. Concerts have been held there since June, with socially distanced seating and masks required.
GLOW Holiday Festival to light up the fairgrounds
ALSO: 2021 NEA Jazz Masters announced; Gypsy Mania Hot Club Quartet to be livestreamed from the Dakota; Bill McKibben online for Westminster Town Hall Forum; and more.
2020 Twin Cities Film Fest goes hybrid; Jungle Theater announces fall season
ALSO: “Women of Broadway: Patti Lupone” online; Dodge Poetry Festival Opening Celebration on Zoom; and more.
Bonding bill’s long journey ended well for the arts
ALSO: Virtual Club Book features David Treuer: “The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee”; Pen Pals with Colum McCann; musical instruments and aerosols research; and more.
