Minnesotan novelist Marya Hornbacher will stop by the studio to discuss her new book, "The Center of Winter." Plus, Dominic checks out the theater in the Big Apple, Marianne reports on art especially made for this time of year and an opera about the cruelty of the teenage girl.
The Center of Winter
Marya Hornbacher's first novel, set in Motley, Minnesota is about a family coping with the aftermath of a suicide. We'll discuss grieving, how children and adults cope with death and the oppressive Midwestern winter.
Theater in NYC
Dominic Papatola is in the Big Apple this week and, of course, he is seeing a lot of theater. We'll discuss August Wilson's new play and Brian Wilson's new musical. Plus, "Sweet Charity" opens in Minneapolis next week on its way to Broadway. He'll tell us why they try out musicals in the Midwest.
Mean Girls
Teenage girls consider their lives very dramatic, but is there enough drama for an opera? Dan Gunderson reports on the premiere of a new work that brings the lives of bullying and bullied girls to the stage.
Arty Icehouses
For a brief time, you can catch an art exhibit on Medicine Lake. Visitors to Minnesota often stop and wonder at the strange collection of ice fishing shacks that appear on the lakes each winter. Now even the locals are stopping to stare at a a group of shacks on Medicine Lake in Plymouth. The "Art Shanty Project" is a collection of ice houses with an artistic flair. Marianne combs takes us on a tour.
Mozart in Manhattan
While Europe is the birthplace of classical music, several great European composers were influenced by time spent in America. Antonin Dvorak, Kurt Weill and Igor Stravinsky all composed music inspired by their visits. So what if Mozart had travelled to America? The new opera "Mozart in Manhattan" premiering in St Paul this weekend presents one possible answer.
