Movies
All hail the great and powerful 'Oz,' the king of American novels
No American novel has defied gravity more than "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz." And you can't pull it down.
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Mixed Blood's 'Vietgone' is a funny, profane take on the Vietnamese experience
REVIEW: Qui Nguyen offers a Vietnamese take on a lost war.
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'Lone Star Spirits' stirs up Texas-sized emotions (and laughs) at Jungle Theater
REVIEW: A daughter's visit to a small-town juke joint stirs the plot and memories that will make you laugh and cry in seconds.
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Cuban troupe to open 2017-18 dance season at Northrop in Mpls.
The 2017-18 schedule brings nine troupes from across the nation and around the world.
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British theater legend Peter Brook brings his 'Battlefield' to Guthrie
Director Peter Brook has distilled his epic "Mahabharata" into a 70-minute work coming to the Guthrie.
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1960s Burnsville townhouse development is still stylish today
The metro area's original suburban townhouse developments — including this south suburban treasure — yield design lessons for their contemporary counterparts.
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Energetic revival of 'West Side Story' sets new standard for Ordway
REVIEW: This electric revival harks back to Jerome Robbins' original staging 60 years ago.
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What's in an image, really? Pioneering artist Martha Rosler transfixes Mpls. audience
Rosler visited the Minneapolis Institute of Art Thursday night for a public conversation with its new photo curator.
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To stage 'West Side Story,' Ordway decided to grow local Latino talents
The theater tapped St. Pau's Teatro del Pueblo to develop Latino singers and dancers for its latest musical.
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Slow Art Day asks museumgoers to take their time
How much time would you spend with one of the world's most famous paintings? For most people, it's about 15 seconds.
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Dance unites Minneapolis high school students from opposite sides of the city
Under ordinary circumstances, the 40 students from North and Southwest high schools would never have met. But there they were, twisting and leaping over one another at the Guthrie Theater last week.
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'Titicut Follies' pays somber, eloquent homage to the reviled and abused
Wiseman-Sewell ballet adaptation of haunting film is deeply affecting.
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This gallery fosters Latino artists on St. Paul's West Side
Electric Machete Studios is more than a gallery. It aspires to be a treasury for Latino folk arts.
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Mighty 'Matilda' takes over Minneapolis' Orpheum Theatre
A magnetic Broadway tour sweeps into town for a brief run this week.
Music
Musical memorial pays tribute to Minnesota conductor Stanislaw Skrowaczewski
Fellow classical musicians remember the conductor's contributions to music and culture remembered in an emotional gathering.
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Want fries with that? Park Square presents a speeded-up 'Macbeth'
REVIEW: You might call this a drive-through "Macbeth." Already one of Shakespeare's shortest plays, this condensed version takes just 90 minutes.
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Around the Region
- 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
Most Read
- Italy halts loans to Minneapolis Institute of Art following dispute over 'Doryphoros' sculpture
- 'A Year With Frog and Toad' closes a chapter at CTC
- Korean art at Minneapolis Institute of Art spans issues of gentrification, memory, identity
- Review: Artistry's 'Sound of Music' continues buoyant comeback for Bloomington playhouse
- A Twyla Tharp world premiere is part of Northrop's 2024-25 dance season
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