Music
New York debut of Bob Dylan musical 'Girl From the North Country' gets rave review
The show, which uses about 20 Dylan songs, is getting a limited Off-Broadway run at the Public Theater — a launching pad for past Broadway hits.
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'Agitators' explores friendship between Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass
Park Square's "The Agitators" looks at long relationship between freedom fighters Frederick Douglass and Susan B. Anthony.
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Aziz Ansari avoids sexual misconduct controversy in pop-up Minneapolis show
REVIEW: The Emmy-winning comic is on the comeback trail after an allegation of sexual misconduct.
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Sculpture park founder fired for 'inappropriate conduct' toward young woman
The board of Franconia Sculpture Park, near Taylors Falls, made the unusual disclosure in response to demands for the return of former CEO John Hock.
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Mystery at St. Olaf: Is this an authentic painting by 'Scream' artist Edvard Munch?
Art experts took samples from the portrait Monday. The college will get the final verdict in 6-8 weeks.
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Review: Frank Theatre launches its 30th season with indelible production of 'The Visit'
Frank Theatre launches its 30th season with an eerie, moving show.
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Play aims to get 'Reds' and 'Blues' to cross the divide
A Minneapolis theater troupe hopes to bridge the partisan divide with a new play: "If you really understand someone, there's no way you can hate them."
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Minnesota gets an African-American museum, thanks to two visionary women
For decades, Minnesota lacked a museum dedicated to its African-American heritage. Two women finally changed that.
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Missed one of the year's best plays? It's coming back to Minneapolis
The Jungle will return its production of "The Wolves," with the original cast.
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Twin Cities theaters say 'Hamilton' isn't swiping fans – it may even add some
Local theaters debate the show's impact on their own ticket sales.
Music
Meredith Monk riffs on musical, biological harmony with all-woman Walker Art Center show
Composer and performance art pioneer Meredith Monk returns to Minneapolis with a challenging new work for women singers.
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New rap-infused Children's Theatre musical 'Last Stop' could be 'Hamilton Jr.'
New rap-infused musical "Last Stop on Market Street" by a Motown legend and his son is like "Hamilton" for kids.
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Mixed Blood brings the blood as tragicomedy 'Is God Is' makes its Minneapolis debut
Review: Dame-Jasmine Hughes reprises her Obie Award-winning role in the ferocious "Is God Is."
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Two old friends are uncorked in St. Paul staging of 'Sometimes There's Wine'
REVIEW: "Sometimes There's Wine" is a delicious pairing at Park Square.
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Review: Ananya Dance Theatre makes waves with political message
Review: Contemporary Indian dance troupe calls on audience to rise up in "Shaatranga: Women Weaving Worlds."
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'Frankenstein' asks who's monstrous: the creature or the guy who created him?
Review: Guthrie's "Frankenstein — Playing With Fire" wonders who the real monster is.
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Flour mill? Grocery store? All the world's a stage for Minnesota theaters
Staging plays outside of conventional spaces can be challenging. And thrilling.
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Legendary set designer for Guthrie, Dayton's, Holidazzle reveals lifetime of paintings
After decades designing sets for the Guthrie, Children's Theatre, Holidazzle and Dayton's eighth-floor auditorium, Jack Barkla is putting on his first gallery show.
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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
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