The New Standards release a holiday album; Miss Richfield returns
ALSO: A live reading of “The Chanukkah Guest”; The Singers’ “What Sweeter Music”; Border CrosSing’s “El Mesías”; and more.
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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Illusion Theater will have a new home; ‘A Suitable Boy’ starts streaming in the U.S.
ALSO: Twin Cities Jazz Festival’s “A Copasetic Christmas Carol”; the National Lutheran Choir’s virtual Christmas concert; and more.
‘Operation: Immigration’ explores identity and love; Ijeoma Oluo at ‘Talk of the Stacks’
ALSO: MNspin adds more albums; how to help the arts, right now; John Lennon Tribute featuring Curtiss A streaming from First Avenue; and more.
Christmas concerts coming up; Louise Erdrich at One Book, One Minnesota
ALSO: Arab Film Festival Collab; the Bad Plus streaming; French music from Louis XIV and XV eras; and more.
More COVID-19 relief for Minnesota arts organizations; New Native Theatre Play Festival begins
ALSO: readings from three poets; new dance from Walker and Northrop; The Betty Crocker Musical; and more.
The Great Northern reveals Kate Nordstrum’s original programming; Tane Danger to direct Westminster Town Hall Forum
If you thought COVID would put a stop to the Great Northern, the Twin Cities’ winter celebration, think again.
The SPCO suspends livestreamed concerts; ‘Magical Black History Trees’ at MAAHMG
ALSO: Minnesota author Jonathan Slaght in the national spotlight; Foot in the Door 5 at Mia; a conversation with Charles Baxter; and more.
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.
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.
