Music
Eight Twin Cities performers find fresh reasons to love 'The Nutcracker'
How Twin Cities artists keep the tradition interesting.
Music
Hugh Jackman to show his 'Other Side' in concert at Xcel Center next June
The Australian actor will be singing songs from "The Greatest Showman" and "Les Miserable" with an orchestra on tour.
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Intermedia Arts sells its Minneapolis home for $3.5 million
A technology firm will move in after a deal that wiped out Intermedia's debts, leaving it with $1 million-plus.
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Sounds of Blackness singer learns guitar for role as 'Beyoncé of her time'
Jamecia Bennett summons the spirit of gospel/rock godmother Rosetta Tharpe in a new show.
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BNW's 'Angels We Have Heard Are High' satirizes stress of the season
Brave New Workshop's sketch comedy revue satirizes the stress of the season.
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Crowd-pleasing, tuneful tribute to Bobby Vee returns to St. Paul's History Theatre
Tyler Michaels dazzles in musical tribute to Fargo singer/songwriter Bobby Vee.
Stage & Arts
10 ways to keep Twin Cities kids happy over Thanksgiving break
Try these kid-friendly diversions for a better holiday weekend.
Stage & Arts
Must art gallery walls be white? Twin Cities exhibitors get colorful
"White walls equal modern art," says one museum designer. But some Twin Cities art spaces are challenging the norm.
Stage & Arts
Charismatic Twin Cities actor Adam King dies at 63
Charismatic performer Adam King, 63, was known for his basso profundo and his dedication to theater.
Stage & Arts
MSP Airport unveils concept for new gigantic, $750K artwork arriving in 2020
NY-based artist Jen Lewin's new concept was unveiled this week.
Stage & Arts
Anti-pipeline protesters cut short public policy theater performance
Theater of Public Policy hosted two public utilities commissioners but had to cancel event because of hecklers.
Music
Rap legend Kurtis Blow leads 'Hip Hop Nutcracker' in St. Paul: 'I am a Christmas rapper'
Kurtis Blow's dancing, rapping and preaching all come together in "Hip Hop Nutcracker" at the Ordway this week.
Stage & Arts
With new magazine, Minnesota writer curates stories for global Somali diaspora
Safy-Hallan Farah launches a platform for young Somali writers and artists.
Stage & Arts
Black playwrights command the stage in thrilling festival at Mixed Blood
Festival at Mixed Blood offers a trio of hyper-contemporary plays by black men.
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Backstage scramble suits this 'Tenor'
REVIEW: Old Log's well-oiled staging of the Tony-winning comedy steams on despite a mishap to its leading lady.
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Guthrie 'Christmas Carol' fuses modern sensibility with classic Dickens tale
Modern (but Victorian) take on the Dickens classic has sympathy for Scrooge.
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10-ton sculpture ready to swoop into Nicollet Mall
"Nimbus," a massive halo-like steel sculpture, will be the crowning touch of the remake of Nicollet Mall.
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- Repatriated South African apartheid-era artworks on display to celebrate 30 years of democracy
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- 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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