Stage & Arts
![Taylor Collier and Jacob Lewis rehearse a dance number. ] MARK VANCLEAVE • mark.vancleave@startribune.com * The cast of Penumbra Theatre's 'Bla](https://arc.stimg.co/startribunemedia/6G4Q7NTEIYC4HNQ6FJLV2YNAIU.jpg?h=91&w=145&fit=crop&bg=999&crop=faces)
In a time of unrest, Penumbra's 'Black Nativity' hits home with its quest for refuge
Songs like "No Room at the Inn" take on a special resonance in Penumbra's emotion-packed holiday show.
Stage & Arts
'West Side Story' propels Guthrie to record-setting year
Despite turnover in top positions, the theater had its highest-grossing season.
Stage & Arts
Sounds of Blackness singer wows in play about music legend
Review: Rajané Katurah Brown and Jamecia Bennett kill it in "Marie and Rosetta."
Stage & Arts
Women play a deadly game of sexual politics in St. Paul theater revival
REVIEW: Classical Actors Ensemble presents bracing revival of a little-known 17th-century work.
Music
Minnesota's newest opera company makes fierce first impression with immigration-themed 'The Consul'
REVIEW: Arbeit Opera Theatre's inaugural production is sharply relevant to current U.S. politics.
Stage & Arts
Walker Art Center's annual award-winning TV ads lead a British pop culture invasion
The annual Arrows Awards at Walker Art Center are just part of a media onslaught on its way from the U.K.
Stage & Arts
Minneapolis Institute of Art aims for 'surprise and delight' with new escape room app
Inspired by escape rooms, a new app sparks mini-adventures at the vast Minneapolis Institute of Art.
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.
Stage & Arts
![A pedestrian walked past one of the murals that adorns the outside of the Intermedia Arts building Thursday. ] ANTHONY SOUFFLE ï anthony.souffle@](https://arc.stimg.co/startribunemedia/OJ3TCDTEGYECQRGQVTZNK5RSZE.jpg?h=91&w=145&fit=crop&bg=999&crop=faces)
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.
Stage & Arts
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.
Stage & Arts
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.
Stage & Arts
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.
Browse Variety Sections
Around the Region
- 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
- What Winnie the Pooh and Mickey Mouse can tell us about the public domain and remix culture
- A judge blocks the demolition of a groundbreaking Iowa art installation
- Demolition of groundbreaking Iowa art installation set to begin soon
- Morocco hosts one of Africa's first exhibitions of Cuban art, a milestone for Afro-Cuban painters
Most Read
- Penumbra Theatre sets up to score with hoops dream play 'Flex'
- Two Minnesota art shows take us from the suburbs to the circus
- Ntozake Shange, pioneering playwright, poet and novelist, dies at 70
- Twin Cities actor has been making it work ever since his South Dakota childhood
- Drama by 'Black Panther' star Danai Gurira explores faith and colonization
Stage and Arts
Complete coverage, including reviews, from the Minneapolis and St. Paul theater, stage and arts scenes.
