Music
Minnesota Chorale joins voices with South African singers: 'It's magic all the way'
Minnesota Chorale loosens up, while the South Africans get a lesson in German.
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Daily lottery for $10 tickets to Minneapolis 'Hamilton' begins Aug. 27 — here's how to enter
Lottery of 40 tickets for each show to be drawn during Twin Cities run.
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Food, gardens, music: Picnic Operetta might be the perfect summer event
This weekend kicks off the 10th season of singing and snacking in the garden.
Music
Brainerd music fest prepares for big growth spurt — and new arts center
Referendum passed by Brainerd voters will provide a new performing-arts center for the Lakes Area Music Festival.
Music
Lively cross-cultural comedy 'Korean Drama Addict' gets its premiere in St. Paul
Theater Mu premieres a new work by Twin Cities playwright May Lee-Yang.
Stage & Arts
Our 10 favorite shows at the 2018 Minnesota Fringe Festival
As the Fringe heads into its final weekend, here are our critics' top picks from the 42 shows we reviewed.
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2018 Minnesota Fringe Festival
Back for its 25th year, the Midwest's biggest performing arts festival is expected to draw nearly 50,000 attendees to 132 shows, each no longer than an hour, at more than a dozen venues Aug. 2-12. Star Tribune reviewers will swarm the fest to see as many shows as they can stand, and tip readers to the good, the bad and the curious. New this year: a Family Fringe with six shows at Celtic Junction in St. Paul.
Tickets are $5-$10 per show, $19-25 for a daylong pass, $220 for VIP all-access pass. Seats for some shows can be reserved for an extra $3 via minnesotafringe.org.
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Iconic walking bridge connecting Sculpture Garden and Loring Park reopens after makeover
The Siah Armajani-designed structure is back just in time for the artist's retrospective at Walker Art Center.
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A fiery night at the Minnesota Fringe Fest, plus Nazis, witchcraft and love in Prague
REVIEW: An epic myth tops our latest roundup of Fringe faves.
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Minnesota Fringe Fest offers Vietnam War tales, Bollywood comedy and more
REVIEW: Storytellers, showstoppers and head-scratchers all can be found at this year's theater fest.
Music
To be or not to be ... a chicken? 10 more buzzworthy shows at the Minnesota Fringe Fest
REVIEW: 10 more shows for your consideration as the theater fest heads into the home stretch.
Stage & Arts
After a tumultuous three years, Guthrie stays the course with director Haj
The artistic director reflects on the successes and "missteps" of his tenure so far.
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11 buzzworthy shows from opening weekend of the Minnesota Fringe Festival
REVIEW: Our critics swarmed opening night Thursday. Here's what they saw.
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Famed Twin Cities actor and singer recovering after a bloody carjacking in St. Paul
"I'm saddened that there are so many who are lost," T. Mychael Rambo said of St. Paul attack.
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5 shows, one Fringe Festival: How this Twin Cities actor/director gets ready for 'marathon'
Shanan Custer has no fewer than five shows in Minnesota's largest performing arts fest: "It's like theater sports."
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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
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- Review: No archetype left behind in the provocative 'Octoroon' at Mixed Blood Theatre
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