Music
New Twin Cities troupe takes opera back to its very beginnings
REVIEW: Written more than 400 years ago, "La Dafne" gets an intimate period staging.
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World premiere in Minneapolis finds Pulitzer Prize winner in the mood to laugh
Guthrie commission from Lynn Nottage finds humor in a truck-stop kitchen.
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These 3 builders helped shape Twin Cities architectural landscape
Mill City exhibit showcases work of black groundbreakers Cap Wigington, Casiville Bullard and William Hazel.
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8 mini-reviews from the Minnesota Fringe Festival
Festival runs through Aug. 11 at multiple venues throughout Minneapolis.
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Beloved classic 'Fiddler on the Roof' shows its emotional center at Orpheum in Minneapolis
The production nods to tradition even as it adds exuberant updates.
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Four ways to choose your own Minnesota Fringe Festival adventure
With 142 shows, the Minnesota Fringe Festival offers a daunting smorgasbord.
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In St. Paul, musical '42nd Street' plot makes no sense but who cares when the dancing is this much fun?
The plot makes no sense, but who cares when the dancing is this much fun?
Music
Minnesota Orchestra brings Clara Schumann to life at Sommerfest
REVIEW: Collaboration with theater company depicts a formidable 19th-century pianist in words and music.
Music
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Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner debuts her new comedy in Minneapolis
There are many ideas in the Lynn Nottage's comedy premiering at the Guthrie. Also, many sandwiches.
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Twin Cities tap dancers are better than New Yorkers, says a hotshot choreographer
A New York creative team was pleasantly surprised about what it found in the Twin Cities while refreshing a Broadway classic, "42nd Street."
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'A Prairie Homeless Companion' spoofs the iconic radio show
Minneapolis troupe spotlights southern Minnesota homelessness, taking "A Prairie Homeless Companion" to four towns.
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Mystery plays at St. Paul's Park Square are hit-and-miss, but the last one is a killer
The sleuth is the best thing in a trio of Agatha Christie plays.
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Minneapolis world premiere of 'Stinkers' blends laughs with astonishing puppet work
Puppets depict the enormous impact tiny people have on a family in the comedy "Stinkers."
Music
Opera goes to the lake this summer, with a new company opening in St. Paul
St. Paul's Como Lake is the setting for a Minnesota-born soprano's new company, Opera on the Lake.
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Around the Region
- Iranian-French artist Marjane Satrapi wins Spanish Asturias award for communication
- Pope visits Venice to speak to the artists and inmates behind the Biennale's must-see prison show
- 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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