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State of the Arts Blog

New theater collaboration organized around new Park Square space

New theater collaboration organized around new Park Square space

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 →
by Euan Kerr

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Art Hounds: Yukionna, Web of Sunsets, and a brief history of klezmer

Art Hounds: Yukionna, Web of Sunsets, and a brief history of klezmer

This week the hounds are more than charmed by some lunchtime Japanese opera, some centuries old klezmer music, and some psychedelic folk that may put you in a dream state. Dorothy Marden believes that to really understand klezmer music, you need to go back to a time when klezmer was the thread that ran through Read more →
by Chris Roberts

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Gambia doesn’t need your help, just your haiku

Gambia doesn’t need your help, just your haiku

Driving around the Twin Cities today, you may see billboards with the words #Haikus4Gambia, accompanied by just that – a haiku. This consciousness-raising poetry project is the brainchild of IBé, a.k.a. Ibrahim Kaba, a local spoken word artist and computer programmer.  It celebrates the 49th anniversary of Gambia’s independence from British rule. IBé organized 49 different Read more →
by Marianne Combs

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New Children’s Theatre Company season blends classics with the brand new (sometimes in the same show)

New Children’s Theatre Company season blends classics with the brand new (sometimes in the same show)

“Part of this season is what I would call ‘dreams fulfilled,’” said Peter Brosius. The artistic director of the Children’s Theatre Company rarely lacks enthusiasm, but when it comes to announcing the 2014-2015 season he takes things to new levels. This new batch of offerings is the result of years of work, either in the Read more →
by Euan Kerr

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Keren Kroul explores the landscape of the mind

Keren Kroul explores the landscape of the mind

Keren Kroul has an intensity about her that comes out both in her work and her life. Her latest exhibition navigates the often unsteady terrain shared by artistry and motherhood. Lining the walls of the Tychman Shapiro Gallery at Sabes Jewish Community Center in Minneapolis, Kroul’s watercolors evoke both the natural elements and the landscape Read more →
by Marianne Combs

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Art Hounds: Pundamonium, Tristan & Yseult, and art songs for people in love

Art Hounds: Pundamonium, Tristan & Yseult, and art songs for people in love

This week’s hounds try to create a pun-free zone and inflict pun pain instead, extol the virtues of Kneehigh Theatre, and reveal some art songs which will raise the temperature in the room, if you get our drift. (Want to be an Art Hound? Sign up!) Twin Cities Comedienne Jenn Schaal is terrible at making Read more →
by Chris Roberts

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