Ballet superstar Misty Copeland will share love for 'beautiful art form' in Minneapolis
In Minneapolis, Misty Copeland will talk Prince and inspiring youths to reach for their dreams.
How the Guthrie's romantic 'Cyrano' stacks up against 70-plus years of adaptations
The big-nosed title character looms large, but he's just one in a trio of characters at the Guthrie.
Paul Reiser returns to stand-up with a Minneapolis debut
The "Mad About You" star wants us to know he still has his comic chops.
Stage & Arts
St. Paul artist mixes sacred themes with 'simple objects' to unpack Hmong-American experience
A St. Paul artist used mass-produced materials for a trio of installations packed with rich Hmong-American narratives.
Stage & Arts
Collide Theatrical Dance Company does 'Dorian Gray' with a feminist twist
‘Dorian Gray’ with a twist Collide Theatrical Dance Company takes a feminist twist on Oscar Wilde’s “The Picture of Dorian Gray.” With an all-woman cast…
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Stage & Arts
Children's Theatre Company stages minimalist, magical 'Hobbit'
Review: A new staging conjures a world of magic and light.
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With 'Hedwig and the Angry Inch,' Minneapolis theater sparks dialogue on gender identity and casting
Theater Latté Da knew casting a cisgender actor to star in "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" would start a conversation.
Music
Best of the Week: Dessa with the Minnesota Orchestra; 'Mamma Mia!', Harlem Globetrotters, Patti LaBelle, more
Dessa goes on the record with Minnesota Orchestra It won’t be local hip-hop star Dessa’s first rodeo at Orchestra Hall, but her pair of shows…
Stage & Arts
Nature goes pop in L.A. artist's St. Paul gallery show
Where nature goes pop Five thousand pounds of sand. One hundred shiny, pillowy sandbags. Abstract landscape collages. That’s the gist of “The Silver Scenery,” a…
Stage & Arts
Jungle Theater's 'School Girls' earns A-plus for dissecting global beauty standards
Review: The stylish production earns straight A's for dissecting global beauty standards.
Stage & Arts
These 4 sisters are actually sisters: Minnesota's 'worker nuns' celebrated in new play
Related by blood and by faith, Minnesota's McDonald sisters devoted their lives to protesting war. A new play at the History Theatre tells their story.
Music
Minnesota Opera batting above average with satisfying world premiere of 'The Fix'
Review: Joel Puckett's opera is based on the infamous "Black Sox Scandal" of 1919.
Stage & Arts
Review: Minneapolis returns fondly remembered musical, 'Cradle Will Rock'
Big Business rules in an 80-year-old musical that doesn't feel that old.
Music
Twin Cities team tries to 'fix' Leonard Bernstein's biggest flop
Theater Latté Da doubles up with VocalEssence to rethink a confounding musical theater work.
Music
Best of the Week: Walker Art Center, Black Sox opera, Better Oblivion, Tori Kelly, more
Ways of seeing Who says oldies aren’t goodies? The Walker’s “Five Ways In: Themes From the Permanent Collection” tackles contemporary art broadly, sorting 100 works into…
Music
Two Twin Cities takes on Mozart opera that 'treats women like they're idiots'
Mozart's "Così fan tutte" sounds sexist to many opera lovers. Twin Cities directors offer differing views on staging the work for modern audiences.
Stage & Arts
After self-imposed hiatus, famed Minnesota photographer Alec Soth returns
His show opens Friday at Weinstein Hammons Gallery in Minneapolis.
Stage & Arts
Children's Theatre Company boils down J.R.R. Tolkien's epic 'The Hobbit' for just five actors
The Hobbit For his 13th show in the past 18 years at the Children’s Theatre Company, British director Greg Banks has gone both big and…
Stage & Arts
L.A. artist and psychic will lead a group meditation at Minneapolis' White Page Gallery
Asher Hartman Dreams, psychic readings, intuitive moments and automatic writing are just a few of this Los Angeles-based artist/psychic/playwright’s favorite things. This weekend he’ll…
Stage & Arts
Minneapolis theater reflects on war's costs with Bertolt Brecht's 'Mother Courage'
Mother of a problem Through March 31: “What does war do to one’s family? What does it do to one’s soul?” These are the questions…
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Inspired by Minnesota beauty queen, Jungle Theater's 'School Girls' questions colorism
A Minnesota beauty queen inspired Jocelyn Bioh's play about discrimination according to skin tone.
Stage & Arts
After shutdown scare, Minneapolis' Soap Factory will reopen by Labor Day
The building will be converted to office space, but the Twin Cities experimental art venue will have a home in the basement level, rent-free, for two years.
Stage & Arts
Sports-obsessed director takes swing at 1919 World Series scandal with Minnesota Opera premiere
Writer and director Eric Simonson sees an "uplifting tragedy" in the 1919 World Series scandal.
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