Stage & Arts
Double the sets, double the lines: Minneapolis theater puts on two classic plays at once
Witty music and a breezy setting update Shakespeare's classic rom-com.
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Artistry's 'Our Town' nods to the weirdness afoot
A revival of Thornton Wilder's "Our Town" shows that it's a carpe diem ancestor to the Netflix series "Stranger Things."
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Sting will be an Englishman in St. Paul when 'The Last Ship' plays the Ordway
The singer-songwriter was all charm at the Ordway as he previewed "The Last Ship," which he will headline in April.
Music
Steve Martin, Edie Brickell's bluegrass musical sounds terrific in Anoka
Lyric Arts production gets the songs just right in the bluegrass musical.
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Longtime Guthrie dramaturg Michael Lupu, who shaped shows for decades, dies at 89
A giant in the field, he was internationally recognized in a role that often goes unnoticed.
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One of the Twin Cities' finest actors gave up the stage for a new life in medicine
Lee Mark Nelson gave up a career as a leading man of the stage for a new life in medicine.
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More than 100 LGBTQ artists take over the University of Minnesota's Nash Gallery
"Queer Forms" is a sweeping exhibit.
Inspired
Lake Hiawatha's guardian artist uses sculptures to call attention to trash problem
In his Minneapolis neighborhood and at City Hall, Sean Connaughty has become known as the lake's outspoken caretaker.
Music
Meet the woman who is the Minnesota Orchestra's new radio voice
MPR's Melissa Ousley will take over Sept. 20 as host of the orchestra's live broadcasts from veteran Brian Newhouse.
Music
'90s musical 'Smokey Joe's Cafe' rises again at St Paul's Ordway Center
"Smokey Joe's Cafe" bows Tuesday at the Ordway with a cast of Twin Cities singers the creative team describes as "spectacular."
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Chicago artist Theaster Gates takes care of all the forgotten stuff
With a sprinkle of "Theaster dust," a Chicago artist finds deeper meanings in discarded objects at the Walker.
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Children's Theatre Company settles 7th sex-abuse lawsuit
"Still work to be done," victim's lawyer says; Children's still faces eight more cases.
Movies
2019 has brought this Minn. filmmaker big grosses and lifetime award
Producer Jim Burke's movies include "The Descendants," "Cedar Rapids," "Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter" and "Election."
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Artists will transform St. Paul buildings during eight-day mural festival
15 mural artists from around the globe transform St. Paul's Creative Enterprise Zone.
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A play a day: Your guide to Twin Cities theater in September
To help you wrap your brain around these 30 crazy days, we've worked out your all-theater month.
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Shared creative spark unites cartoonist and painter decades after they met, married
Though they work in two very different corners of the art world, the couple share an understanding of both its challenges and its allure.
Music
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Twin Cities concerts of the week: Tyler the Creator, Nathaniel Rateliff, Kesha and fair music galore
The big gigs for Aug. 30-Sept. 5, also including Lionel Richie, Tony! Toni! Toné!, Brandi Carlile and Dessa at the fair, plus Under Violet's release party, Squeeze, Jon Spencer, Eddie Palmieri and more.
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Around the Region
- Maurizio Cattalan, 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
- Doris Kearns Goodwin and Laurie Anderson to receive medals from American Academy of Arts and Letters
Most Read
- Choreographer explores the human body's inherent beauty with understated show at Walker Art Center
- On Thursday evenings, there's a gay bar at the Walker Art Center
- Sculptor Zoran Mojsilov has rocked the Twin Cities for more than 40 years
- A former deli maestro steps into Capt. von Trapp's shoes in Artistry's 'Sound of Music'
- German curator goes from Minneapolis to Florence's Uffizi Gallery
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