Mixed Blood’s bilingual production of Minnecanos will come to a close this weekend. The show played to over 2,900 students over the course of a dozen student matinee performances, and this weekend will see the show’s final of four public performances. As part of our ongoing Free Speech program (our audience engagement program) the final two performances… [Read more…]
March 15, 2012
Mixed Blood’s bilingual production of Minnecanos will have its first public performance tonight at 7:30pm at the Parkway Theater in S. Minneapolis (4814 Chicago Ave. S.). This show is being produced at the Parkway because we are currently hosting our good friends, Mu Performing Arts, here in the firehouse for their production of Edith Can Shoot Things and… [Read more…]
March 12, 2012
Mixed Blood’s Minnecanos, written by Joe Minjares, (you can see the video from his Salon here) opens this week at the Parkway Theater in South Minneapolis and marks Mixed Blood’s thirteenth bilingual production attended largely by high school students studying Spanish. Over the course of the next two weeks, almost 3,000 students from Wisconsin, Iowa and North… [Read more…]
March 9, 2012
Our successful run of Crashing the Party came to an end this past Sunday. Thanks to Radical Hospitality, the show ran to full houses with 25% of our audience 30-under with early-career professionals (23-30 y.o.) making up 12% of that number. To get a feel of the intrinsic value of the production, you can check our… [Read more…]
March 2, 2012
Joe Minjares wears many hats (but surprisingly goes hat-less in Crashing the Party). His acting talents are currently on display in Crashing the Party where he plays David Martin, patriarch of the Martin family but you may have seen Joe as a stand-up comedian, or greeting guests at his restaurant Pepitos in South Minneapolis, or maybe you’ve seen him… [Read more…]
February 29, 2012
Crashing the Party is filled with all sorts of quirky characters – who are you most similar too? Are you like Arthur, a champ at game-show trivia with a knack for t-shirt making? Or perhaps more like Agent Grant, who uses a tazer a little too freely and believes her child is the next oboe… [Read more…]
February 28, 2012
Thank you to everyone who stuck around after our industry night performance of Crashing the Party to chat with us about Twin Cities Theatre! In an attempt to keep everyone, not just the people who could stay, involved with the conversation, we live-tweeted the discussion via #TCtheatre. Here are a couple of gems from the conversation.… [Read more…]
February 23, 2012
At Mixed Blood, we realize that our productions, and the narratives we support, are only part of a larger conversation around the content, issues, and themes those works explore. With that understanding we seek out ways to invite others to join the conversation. Our Free Speech program has provided a few of those opportunities. The Free Speech… [Read more…]
February 20, 2012
We have laid out the challenge to our audiences: Engage in our work in deeper and more profound ways. For those audience members who step up to that challenge, we try to provide as many programs and opportunities to help facilitate their engagement. While we are so happy with the level of engagement we’ve seen with our… [Read more…]
February 16, 2012
It’s difficult to dislike Ansa Akyea. He always carries a smile, loves making people laugh (and if you’ve seen him in Crashing the Party you know he does a good job of that), and when he’s around his kids he becomes the poster-boy for “coolest dad on the planet.” We sat down with Ansa to talk favorite activities,… [Read more…]
March 23, 2012
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