Stage & Arts
Royal Comedy Theatre brings authentic stand-up to the Twin Cities suburbs
The tiny venue in Hopkins, one year old this month, is hosting its first comedy festival.
Stage & Arts
Twin Cities actor blows the whistle on 'unsafe' theater production
New Epic Theater's staging of 'Medea' was to star Guthrie leading lady Michelle O'Neill and Twin Cities leading man Mark Benninghofen.
Stage & Arts
How immigration became a hot topic for Minnesota arts groups
Minnesota arts groups are inviting stories that dissect U.S. immigration politics and the Syrian refugee crisis.
Stage & Arts
Review: 'Intimate Apparel' gets a fine as silk staging by Ten Thousand Things
REVIEW: Ten Thousand Things stages an engaging revival of Lynn Nottage's "Intimate Apparel."
Stage & Arts
Mpls. man raises $2M on Kickstarter to make kinetic art for your living room
Bruce Shapiro's robotic creations have appeared at the White House and on Martha Stewart's TV show.
Music
Minnesota Opera trims the excesses for an emotionally convincing 'La Bohème'
REVIEW: Minnesota Opera's production succeeds, in part, thanks to an emotionally understated new staging.
Stage & Arts
Actor Sally Wingert artfully channels a cancer patient in 'Wit'
Revival of 1999 Pulitzer Prize winner features extraordinary performance by Sally Wingert.
Stage & Arts
'Little Wars' at Mixed Blood imagines salon at Gertrude Stein's
REVIEW: A new company for women launches with a wobbly, self-important drama.
Stage & Arts
3 curators ignite contemporary art explosion at Minneapolis Institute of Art
The museum is focusing on more "artist-driven" programming as it brings its collection into the 21st century.
Stage & Arts
Play at Guthrie confronts ghost of Charlie Chan while battling Asian stereotypes
The fictional detective is exhumed, and dissected, in a murder mystery staged by Mu Performing Arts.
Stage & Arts
Minneapolis gets a brainful of beautiful drawings at Weisman Art Museum
Eighty of artist/scientist Santiago Ramón y Cajal's brain-y drawings are on display at the Weisman Art Museum as part of the traveling exhibition "The Beautiful Brain."
Stage & Arts
Minnesota musical 'Sweet Land' is uneven but offers plenty of charm
REVIEW: New musical at History Theatre tells a Minnesota immigrant's tale with poignant tunes and a star turn by Ann Michels.
Stage & Arts
TU Dance triumphs in new dance at Ordway
REVIEW: The group brought a rhythmic joy to Ronald K. Brown premiere.
Music
Can Minnesota protect its cultural resources from D.C. politics? Arts leaders weigh in
Minnesota leaders traded thoughts on protecting the state's cultural resources at the second Star Tribune Arts Forum.
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- Demolition of groundbreaking Iowa art installation set to begin soon
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