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Review: Five things that will keep kids engaged in CTC's 'Babble Lab'
Autumn Ness taps and isolates a battery of soupy sounds for this show about language development.
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Review: Beneath its spandex and scuba gear, 'Mamma Mia!' offers unexpected insights at the Orpheum
Joshua Campbell, who acted in the Las Vegas production, joins in reviewing the staying power of the ABBA musical.
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Review: Artistry's 'Crazy for You' brings touches of Broadway to Bloomington
Ben Bakken's stylish production of this Gershwin musical gets a lush staging with Anita Ruth's 20-piece orchestra.
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Review: Theater Latte Da's 'Stones in his Pockets' shows how to break out of being an extra in your own story
Director Marcela Lorca's production offers a Gaelic sandbox for Tom Reed and Reed Sigmund, and boy, do they play.
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Review: Guthrie's 'Dial M for Murder' has a killer who's cool as ice
Tracy Brigden's stylish production puts the hmm in murder-mystery.
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Review: Dancers shed light on movement and language in the dark
Audio descriptions gave context to the dance in Morgan Thorson's "Untitled Night" at the Great Northern Festival.
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Review: Minnesota Opera's successful 'Elixir of Love' delivers performances with power and panache
The Gaetano Donizetti work is a musical rom-com suitable for every opera lover.
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Aerosmith responds to viral University of Minnesota dance team 'Dream On' routine
The rockers posted a compilation of the performance on Instagram that has garnered more than 18,000 likes.
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Review: Bob Dylan-infused 'Girl From the North Country' hits high notes, then stalls
Conor McPherson's production kicks off its 26-city tour at Minneapolis' Orpheum Theatre.
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Review: 5 surprising things you learn in 'The Defeat of Jesse James' at History Theatre
The new Chan Poling-Jeffrey Hatcher musical is contemporary and historical at the same time.
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Review: 'First Lady Suite' at Elision is a smashingly entertaining chamber musical
Four presidents' wives take center stage in a show that imagines what their lives were like.
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Review: 'The Pajama Game' is a beautifully sung trip into the past of musicals
"Hey There" and "Steam Heat" are the hits in the old-fashioned show, set in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
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Review: A good night, indeed, with the sweet prince — 'Hamlet' lights up Guthrie stage
Director Joseph Haj and star Michael Braugher write a new chapter with Shakespeare's monumental tragedy.
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Review: Off with their heads? 'Revolutionists' mines laughs during French reign of terror
Shelli Place's staging of the Lauren Gunderson dramedy is slyly, dryly funny.
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Review: World premiere musical 'Again' is funny, tuneful and about cancer
Theater Mu presentation is partially inspired by playwright Katie Ka Vang's journey.
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Review: Updated 'My Fair Lady' pushes you back while drawing you in
Is beautiful music enough to overlook a sexist throwback cad in the touring Broadway production at the Ordway?
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Review: 'Diesel Heart' is more tell than show at History Theatre
The world premiere is a biographical drama about former St. Paul officer Melvin Carter Jr.
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Review: Characters in '5' imagine the unimaginable
JuCoby Johnson's comedy/drama at the Jungle is a world premiere.
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Here's what to expect when 'Feast' combines pork ribs with chills
The Walking Shadow Theatre/Black Forest Inn production is provocative and filling.
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Review: 'Misery' finds macabre humor in the midst of a snowstorm
The play is based on the Stephen King novel about a writer and his "No. 1 fan."
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