Stevens Square Neighborhood News and Events
Stevens Square-Loring Heights is Minneapolis's smallest neighborhood; we're just a five-minute walk to the heart of Minneapolis. Nicollet Avenue, or "Eat Street," runs through the neighborhood with lots of diverse dining options; and the Stevens Square Center for the Arts has 5,500 square feet of gallery and studio space dedicated to local artists. The neighborhood is home to many historic buildings and a designated historic district. Our historic neighborhood welcomes newcomers and excels at developing long-term relationships. (Description from livemsp.org)
THEATER PREVIEW | Jeffrey Hatcher's "Compleat Female Stage Beauty" to add the latest feather to Walking Shadow's cap
Walking Shadow Theatre Company, since 2004, has established a presence of consequence in Twin Cities theater. No mean feat for a venue competing in one of the nation’s strongest arts markets.MORE »
THEATER | "Street Scene" by Girl Friday Productions: "Three parts dynamite, one part Army mule"
Whenever somebody trots out a play from the early 20th century, even a Pulitzer Prize winner such as Elmer Rice's Street Scene, a thought immediately leaps unbidden into my mind: "Isn't that old play going to seem a bit creaky? Won't the dialogue and the characterization and the plotting feel a little clunky to a modern audience?" Since Girl Friday Productions is presenting Street Scene, that should have been my first clue not to worry. (After all, I'd seen what they did with Thornton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth.) Now put Craig Johnson in the director's chair, then assemble a cast just as good as it is huge (and it's mighty huge: 12 men, 11 women, 3 kids, and a dog—all 26 humans having speaking roles, some of them several). Street Scene is so beautifully orchestrated, it's almost musical.MORE »
Get up to speed on streetcars and development
Central Avenue’s competing with Nicollet Avenue to be the first Minneapolis shopping area to see streetcars return. First Ward Council Member Kevin Reich held an informational meeting May 24 to help people understand streetcars and the economic development they may bring.MORE »
THEATER | 20% Theatre Company's "That Face": "This has a nightmarish quality about it that I don't like"
Oh my. Where to begin? This is...not good.MORE »
THEATER | Eat Street Players' "The Red Tureen": Come watch a musical try to decide what it wants to be when it grows up
You can't help rooting for a group like Eat Street Players. I'll be honest, even though they exist just three blocks from where I live, they never crossed my radar until late last year when I ran across a notice for a production of The Laramie Project. Any theater that produces that play catches my attention. A person could be forgiven for having a knee-jerk reaction to the description "community theater run out of a church." But for every Fiddler On the Roof they produce, there's also a Laramie Project. For every Godspell, there's a production of Everyman or Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead. Heck, they started their life with Into the Woods, which is in no way a happy-go-lucky fairy tale—and it's Sondheim, another reason why it's one of my favorite musicals. They do play readings of The Skin of Our Teeth for fun. This isn't your average community theater group.MORE »
