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By the time you begin reading this column, the fall season of music and drama in the Twin Ports will have bounded into view. Start picking up tickets and look forward to being well-entertained for the next nine months without interruption.

DSSO will vibrate the DECC, and provide intimacy at the DAI

The first Masterworks concert of the Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra, titled Genesis, will take place at the DECC on Saturday night, 12 September, beginning at 7pm. Come share the sparkling fireworks of the 3rd piano concerto by Sergei Prokofiev, then the majesty of the fourth symphony by Robert Schumann (on his wife’s birthday, none the less!). The program opens with a huge Caribeña splash of Brasil, by Uruguayan/ American composer Miguel del Aguila. Seat-belts might by useful.
On Tuesday, 15 September, in the galleries of the Duluth Art Institute at The Depot, the first DSSO Chamber Series program will start at 5:30pm. Come meet various members of the DSSO across this year, in intimate, musical settings of classical music. These musicians are hoping to attract your attention to the richness of music in our community.
       
Bringing successors of THE BARD into the late 20th century

Meanwhile, the Wise Fool Shakespeare company opens its season on Friday,11 September, with the best stage play of 1990, Dancing at Lughnasa. Both the Olivier Award in England, and the Tony Award in the US, were gathered in by Brian Fiel’s creation, a bittersweet remembrance of August, 1936, in County Donegal, Ireland. Five unmarried sisters and their older brother come to new realizations around the Celtic Harvest festival. This production runs Friday through Sunday for the next two weekends at Teatro Zuccone on Superior St.

Miscommunication is sometimes unexpectedly meaningful

The Duluth Playhouse launches into the fall with the hilarious 1984 comedy by Larry Shue, The Foreigner, opening on 17 September and running through the 26th. While Charlie is obsessed about the health of his wife, he is urged by a friend to pretend to be a real foreigner, with no English language skills whatsoever. The farcical miscommunication lasts right until the end of the show, when Charlie perhaps gets the final laugh.

Intergenerational humor at the Encore Performing Arts Center

Not to be left out of the fall premieres, The County Seat Theater in Carlton will stage the comedy, Making God Laugh, premiered in 2011 by playwright Sean Grennan. Perhaps you can go home again, but over a thirty year period, a lot of family interchange can happen. Old traditions, new relationships, allow for tensions during certain holidays, and all is not always peaceful. Still, the warmth - and the laughs - are best at home. The show opens on Friday, 25 September, and runs through 04 October.

Tickets to all of these events are available at this time. Do enjoy several of them, and stay tuned for post-performance comments in this weekly column.