May 13th, 2015
Age is just a number, and the Silver Follies know this better than any area performers.
This weekend the Fargo-Moorhead Community Theatre’s Silver Follies troupe, organized by performers ages 50 and over, performs its 11th annual show “Yee Haw For Hee Haw.” The blast from the past to Roy Clark’s beloved country variety show includes golden oldie favorites, a bit of dancing and a plain, old good time.
“They’re so cheerful and bring…
May 6th, 2015
The university opera company has “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” lined up for the stage, combining Shakespeare, opera and an enormous ensemble for one of NDSU Performing Arts’ last productions of 2014-2015. Cutting the story back a bit for this operatic telling, one aspect of this art form sticks out most of all to the director.
“The music is very difficult,” director Tara Faircloth said, “very vocally and…
April 23rd, 2015
One of the most popular podcasts in the world, “Welcome to Night Vale,” will be performed live on stage at The Fargo Theatre on April 30.
The live show will feature the latest and most exclusive news, police, weather and cultural reports from the tiny, fictional desert town of Night Vale. It’s a place where all conspiracy theories exist and mysterious hooded figures, among other arcane obscurities, rouse the curious nature of the listener.
HPR interviewed co-creator and co-writer…
April 22nd, 2015
Dancing, dirty jokes, pop culture references and a party.
This is the recipe for Theatre NDSU’s season closer “Lysistrata,” taking off Thursday through May 2, and giving a modern update to satirist Aristophanes’ 2,500-year-old Greek comedy. With a recent translation contemporizing the text, director Chelsea Pace found her own inspiration from the playwright to further adapt this show for NDSU’s stage.
“It’s still very…
April 8th, 2015
Spring brings another play into full bloom at downtown Fargo’s Theatre B next week – Christopher Durang’s “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike,” a modern farce speckled with family tension.
Loaded with laughs and offering a look into sibling rivalries and caring for aging parents, “Vanya” offers plenty for audiences looking for entertainment, escape or introspection.
“If it’s not reason enough to come out and spend the night laughing until your gut hurts, (it is) to see…
April 1st, 2015
For the Fargo-Moorhead Opera, the 2014 to 2015 season has seen new things all over.
From its new office on 25th Street South to staging its last show in a different venue, the company keeps shaking things up, and its season closer couldn’t prove this better. “Daughter of the Regiment,” a comic opera from 1840, makes its area premiere next weekend and embodies the phrase “ending on a high note.”
Nine high C’s in a tenor aria…
March 11th, 2015
Justice will always prevail, and for Tin Roof Theatre’s 10th season, justice is the prevalent theme.
Coming off of “Judgment at Nuremberg,” the courtroom drama detailing the post-WWII Nazi war crimes trials, Tin Roof explores similar themes with its season closer “The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail.” Chronicling the night that writer/philosopher Henry David Thoreau spent in a Concord, Mass., jail for…
March 11th, 2015
For the first time in 31 years, the Harwood Prairie Playhouse is doing something new. Well, kinda sorta.
The West Fargo theater company known for its annual farces isn’t putting on a different show this year, but rather digging into its past to present a farce for the second time. “Run For Your Wife” by Ray Cooney is presented as a reunion show, rounding up Harwood actors of the last 15 years.
Shanara Lassig is one of…
March 4th, 2015
By Jay Rice
Adam Quesnell and JD Provorse, two long-time Fargo-Moorhead comics, take the stage this Thursday through Saturday at Courtney’s Comedy Club to lend some legitimacy to our local comedy scene. This is Adam’s first full headlining gig at Courtney's and JD will be recording his first comedy CD. Let’s learn more about them.
HPR: When and how did you get your start?
Adam Quesnell: I opened for Todd Barry in 2009, showing me that I knew nothing about stand-up, but wanted more.…
February 25th, 2015
A small-scale production takes on a comprehensive issue in Theatre NDSU’s performance run of the modern rock musical “Next to Normal.”
Facing the contemporary topics of mental illness and its effects on a family, the six-person show follows the Goodman family – father, mother, daughter and son – as mother Diana’s mental illness puts the family in a crisis. Director Lori Koenig hopes to start a conversation on the reality of mental illness and those living with it.
“This is…
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By Winona LaDukewinona@winonaladuke.com The business of Indian Hating is a lucrative one. It’s historically been designed to dehumanize Native people so that it’s easier to take their land. ‘Kill the Indian, save the man,”…
By Winona LaDukewinona@winonaladuke.comThere’s not really a word for reconciliation, it's said in our language. There’s a word for making it right. To talk about reconciliation in terms of the relationship between Indigenous…
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December 6-22, Friday and Saturday 7:30 p.m., Sunday 2:00 p.m.Theatre B, 215 10th St. N., MoorheadThe Nowaks have had miracles in the family since the Blessed Mother appeared in Grandpa’s barbershop back in 1942. But a deathbed…
By Jim Fugliejimfuglie920@gmail.com Okay, so last month I promised you a woman President of the United States. So much for my predictability quotient. Lesson 1: Never promise something you can’t control. And nobody, not even…
By Ed Raymondfargogadfly@gmail.comWith What is Happening in the World, Why not Artificial Intelligence? Since Lucy fell out of a tree and walked about four million years ago, she has been evolving to humans we call Homo sapiens. We…
By Rick Gionrickgion@gmail.com Holiday wine shopping shouldn’t have to be complicated. But unfortunately it can cause unneeded anxiety due to an overabundance of choices. Don’t fret my friends, we once again have you covered…
By Rick Gionrickgion@gmail.com In this land of hotdish and ham, the knoephla soup of German-Russian heritage seems to reign supreme. In my opinion though, the French have the superior soup. With a cheesy top layer, toasted baguette…
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By John Showalterjohn.d.showalter@gmail.com Local band Zero Place has been making quite a name for itself locally and regionally in the last few years. Despite getting its start during a time it seemed the whole world was coming to…
By Greg Carlsongregcarlson1@gmail.com Writer-director Nicole Riegel’s sophomore feature “Dandelion” is now playing in theaters following a world premiere at South by Southwest in March. The movie stars KiKi Layne as the…
By Sabrina Hornungsabrina@hpr1.comIn 1974, the Jamestown Arts Center started as a small space above a downtown drugstore. It has grown to host multiple classrooms, a gallery, performance studio, ceramic studio and outdoor art park.…
By John Showalterjohn.d.showalter@gmail.comHigh Plains Reader had the opportunity to interview two mysterious new game show hosts named Milt and Bradley Barker about an upcoming event they will be putting on at Brewhalla. What…
By Annie Prafckeannieprafcke@gmail.com AUSTIN, Texas – As a Chinese-American, connecting to my culture through food is essential, and no dish brings me back to my mother’s kitchen quite like hotdish. Yes, you heard me right –…
By Sabrina Hornungsabrina@hpr1.comNew Jamestown Brewery Serves up Local FlavorThere’s something delicious brewing out here on the prairie and it just so happens to be the newest brewery west of the Red River and east of the…
By Josette Ciceronunapologeticallyanxiousme@gmail.com What does it mean to truly live in a community —or should I say, among community? It’s a question I have been wrestling with since I moved to Fargo-Moorhead in February 2022.…
Rynn WillgohsJanuary 25, 1972-October 8, 2024 Rynn Azerial Willgohs, age 52, of Vantaa, Finland, died by suicide on October 8, 2024. Rynn became her true-self March 31, 2020. She immediately became a vocal and involved activist…
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By Curtis W. Stofferahn, Ph.D.Curtis.stofferahn@email.und.edu In June, two events markedly contrasted the difference between two different visions of agriculture: precision agriculture and regenerative agriculture. The dedication…
