Stage & Arts
'Finding Fish' comes up empty at Illusion Theater
REVIEW: Carlyle Brown's new play is less of a drama than a lecture about the environment.
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Powerful 'Parchman Hour' at the Guthrie tells story of Freedom Riders
REVIEW: Show connects 1960s civil rights fight to contemporary struggles.
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St. Paul's Pioneer Endicott complex stands the test of time
If a building's famous for its height or style, someone may tell its tale. If a building's lucky, it gets Larry Millett. The Pioneer Endicott at 4th and Roberts streets in St. Paul is lucky.
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How Mpls.-based Playwrights' Center gets U.S. theaters to stage new works
Minneapolis-based Playwrights' Center has made itself a connector for playwrights and theaters nationwide.
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Review: These 'Joneses' can't keep up with themselves
REVIEW: Will Eno play at Park Square offers deep humor and fear beneath a simple surface.
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Hennepin theater boss, Minneapolis booster Tom Hoch is stepping down
The man who helped save three historic theaters and create the Bob Dylan mural will leave sometime next year.
Music
Sen. Amy Klobuchar pushing legislation to ban 'ticket bot' scammers
Senator doesn't want fans to have to fight with online scalpers for access to events.
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Another era when black lives mattered gives birth to Guthrie show
The Guthrie's "Parchman Hour" hopes to inspire a new generation with songs and tales of civil rights.
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Sewer backup closes Walker Art Center until Saturday
The Walker Art Center was forced to shut down Wednesday after a main-line sewer backed up and flooded its lower level.
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'Star Wars'-inspired artist is a force in the Mpls. American Indian community
The former model is full of ideas about how to integrate art with the historically large American Indian population in the surrounding Phillips neighborhood.
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Minneapolis art school faculty to vote on union
Election is part of a national organizing effort.
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Review: 'Barbecue' at Mixed Blood is a problematic stew
Play at Mixed Blood sets out to skewer stereotypes, even as it reinforces them.
Music
Real-life American idol Bobby Vee rocks once more at History Theatre
REVIEW: History Theatre presents a winning musical about the pop star's life, with Tyler Michaels in the title role.
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Theatre Coup d'Etat offers an emotionally powerful and ritual-infused 'Antigone'
REVIEW: Theatre Coup d'Etat offers a powerful, ritual-infused take on the ancient Greek tragedy.
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Review: Naomi Iizuka's 'The Last Firefly' shines a big light in Children's Theatre premiere
Naomi Iizuka's new play opens in a taut, 70-minute tour-de-force premiere at the Children's Theatre.
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Children's Theatre's epic 'Last Firefly' literally was born in the playwright's belly
When playwright Naomi Iizuka was pregnant, she spoke constantly to the boy kicking and growing inside her, telling him stories that drew on her Japanese and Latina heritage. A decade later, she has shaped some of those tales into an 80-minute epic.
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- Repatriated South African apartheid-era artworks on display to celebrate 30 years of democracy
- A portrait by Gustav Klimt has been sold for $32 million at an auction in Vienna
- Venice Biennale titled 'Foreigners Everywhere' platforms LGBTQ+, outsider and Indigenous artists
- Maurizio Cattelan, Zoe Saldana join iconoclastic Vatican Biennale exhibition inside women's prison
- Choctaw artist Jeffrey Gibson confronts history at US pavilion as its first solo Indigenous artist
- Major Berlin show marks 250th anniversary of German Romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich's birth
- A painting of Winston Churchill by an artist whose work he hated is up for auction
- Artist and curators refuse to open Israel pavilion at Venice Biennale until cease-fire, hostage deal
- What Winnie the Pooh and Mickey Mouse can tell us about the public domain and remix culture
- A judge blocks the demolition of a groundbreaking Iowa art installation
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- Korean art at Minneapolis Institute of Art spans issues of gentrification, memory, identity
- Sculptor Zoran Mojsilov has rocked the Twin Cities for more than 40 years
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