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Magical show at Walker Art Center explores memory and identity
Theatermaker plumbs the past to understand his dad, and himself.
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Jungle Theater drama about girls' soccer team is original and exhilarating
The Jungle's new play about young women features a bunch of actors you've never seen, and it's extraordinary.
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N.Y.-set musical 'Five Points' has Broadway ambitions but a Minneapolis pedigree
A new musical about the birth of tap dance has Broadway ambitions but a Minneapolis pedigree.
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Despite McNally Smith closing, History Theatre plans at least one more season in its St. Paul venue
Its lease was affected by McNally Smith bankruptcy. But it'll stay through at least the 2018-19 season.
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Too Close for comfort? Museums face questions about works of accused artists
Since the National Gallery of Art announced in January that it would indefinitely postpone its Close exhibition, museums have been debating how to handle works by artists accused of harassment.
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Famed theatermaker brings his house of memories to Minneapolis in solo show '887'
Famed theatermaker Robert Lepage explores his childhood address in solo work "887" at the Walker.
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Team of women powers Jungle Theater's smash play about soccer: 'It is a sea change'
We convened a roundtable with the 10 women who will be onstage and more than a dozen others working behind the scenes when the Pulitzer Prize finalist "The Wolves" opens Friday night.
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Wildly imaginative work of artist rooted in L.A. & N.Y. comes to roost in St. Peter, Minn.
The work of an L.A. painter who came of age in 1980s New York finds an unlikely Midwest home in "Scharftopia" at Gustavus.
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Theatre Unbound takes a fresh 'Measure' of a troubling Shakespeare play
REVIEW: Theatre Unbound presents a new version of drama of power, hypocrisy and sexual harassment.
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A baby falls victim to the meth crisis in the drama 'Luna Gale'
Drugs, family, religion and social services converge in Underdog Theatre's potent drama "Luna Gale."
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Show at History Theatre tells amazing tale of Minnesotan who danced for five months nonstop
Show at History Theatre about 1930s dance marathons tells a Minnesotan's amazing story.
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Walker's 'Portrait of Myself as My Father' delivers an uppercut to ideas of black masculinity
Walker brings Nora Chipaumire's work to Minneapolis boxing gym.
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Watch out, Guthrie: These suburban theaters are breaking into the big leagues
Two stages on opposite sides of the Twin Cities are shooting for a bigger role in the theater scene.
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Minneapolis show by Syrian-born artist explores the effect of war on children
Essma Imady's solo show at Minneapolis Institute of Art is a solemn meditation on the Syrian conflict's sad fallout.
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Funny, gifted and black: Twin Cities actor becomes a double threat as improv comic
Actor turned improv comic Joy Dolo helps blaze a new trail for performers of color.
Music
Minneapolis sibling tax accountants are 'crazy' like Foxes for artist clients
A brother-and-sister accounting firm makes life less taxing for artists. It helps that the siblings are "a little crazy."
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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
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- A judge blocks the demolition of a groundbreaking Iowa art installation
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- A Twyla Tharp world premiere is part of Northrop's 2024-25 dance season
- Korean art at Minneapolis Institute of Art spans issues of gentrification, memory, identity
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