VocalEssence, Wicked, the Minnesota Orchestra, and more. Your best picks as chosen by our editors for this year’s fall arts season, plus we celebrate several anniversaries.
More than twenty-five arts organizations have dutifully informed us that they
are celebrating an anniversary in 2008, a number high enough to raise even the
most jaded editor’s eyebrows.
Built in 1963, the Guthrie Theater was a place for Minnesotans to see and be
seen, but some of the best drama happened before the building ever opened its
doors.
Children's Theatre Company has always made shows that everyone from toddlers to grandparents love, and
this fall’s lineup is especially eclectic, with a slew of new plays by
internationally acclaimed artists.
The big blue building’s black-box theater, Guthrie's Dowling Studio, is gaining a kind of street cred for being
more than just a place to see the classics.
Shown in parts at both the Walker and MIA, architect Eero Saarinen’s work is the first
significant collaboration between these two institutions since directors Olga
Viso and Kaywin Feldman took the reins of their respective organizations in
January.
India: Public Places, Private Spaces, an ambitious exhibition at the
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, confronts this paradox head-on with work that
turns easy assumptions about India and Indian art on their head.
Sharon Isbin, the first lady of frets, returns to her hometown to open the
Minnesota
Orchestra season with the most beloved concerto for
guitar—Joaquín Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez.
If anyone knows how to throw a party, it’s Philip Brunelle and Garrison Keillor.
And on the occasion of VocalEssence’s fortieth anniversary,
they’re pulling out all the stops with a bash at Orchestra Hall.
This October, the Minnesota Chorale and partnering artists from diverse
disciplines, all under the direction of Kathy Saltzman Romey, present the world
premiere of Robert Kyr's Ah, Nagasaki: Ashes into Light.
With a print run of 18,000 copies, Rain Taxi, manages to distribute its
mix of reviews, author interviews, and poetry to 250 bookstores around the
country and to subscribers all over the globe.
On the eve of the Republican National Convention, more than sixty
venues—including bars, restaurants, hotels, and the usual arts standbys—are bringing the Twin Cities’ art scene to the world with spark24, a twenty-four-hour
blitz of music, theater, fashion, art, and more.
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