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Fall Arts 2008 Guide

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.

September 2008

Fall Arts 2008: Editor's Top Ten

Fall Arts 2008: Editor's Top Ten

Minneapolis-St. Paul's Arts and entertainment editor Tad Simons reveals his top 10 picks for the upcoming fall arts season.

Installation of the cherry on <em>Spoonbridge and Cherry</em>

Happy Anniversary!

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.

Cats at Chanhassen Dinner Theatres thumbnail

Fall Arts Anniversary Slideshow 2008

Celebrating the anniversaries of more than 30 arts organizations in 2008, as well as a tribute to Theatre de la Jeune Lune.

Jeffrey Hatcher

Artist v. Architect

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

Fun and Funk

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.

Dowling Studio

Big Blues Black Box

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.

<em>Wicked</em>

Critic's Picks: Theater

Check out our critic's picks for theater in the Twin Cities.

IBM facility by Eero Saarinen

Architecture from D to Z

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.

People making kite string in India

India Inside Out

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.

Minnesota Historical Society's <em>Vatican Splendor</em>

Critics Picks: Museums + Galleries

Take a peek at our critic's picks for museums and galleries in the Twin Cities.

Merce Cunningham's <em>Ocean</em>

Mercy Merce

Merce Cunningham’s Ocean will be performed this fall at the Rainbow Quarry near St. Cloud, and it’s easily the biggest event of the fall dance season.

Dancer from Katha Dance Theatre

The Meaning of Dance

What is the place of dance in life? St. Paul’s Ordway Center provides an expansive answer to this question with its Planet Ordway series.

James Sewell Ballet

Critic's Picks: Dance

We bring you our critic's picks for dance in the Twin Cities.

Members of the SPCO

SPCO, Then and Now

The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, currently enjoying record audience numbers, has both a present and a past to celebrate.

Sharon Isbin

Crossing the Culture Divide

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.

Marc-Andre Hamellin

Critics Picks: Classical

Here's a look at our critic's picks for classical music in the Twin Cities.

Philip Brunelle and Garrison Keillor

VocalEssence Turns Forty

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.

Minnesota Chorale

Healing an Old Wound

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.

A scene from <em>The Abduction from the Seraglio</em>

Critic's Picks: Choral

Here are our choral critic's picks for this fall in the Twin Cities.

Eric Lorberer

Hailing Rain Taxi

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.

Scott Mayer

Fanning the Flame

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.

<em>Genus elephas</em>

Arts and the RNC

See how arts organizations are welcoming RNC guests.




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