Stage & Arts
Grand Rapids shows how the arts can boost small communities
As host for the Rural Arts and Culture Summit, Grand Rapids shared its successes and struggles with visitors from 25 states.
Stage & Arts
Fizzy musical at Old Log Theatre gets away with 'Murder'
Review: Witty "A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder" focuses on a charming hero who happens to be a serial killer.
Stage & Arts
Franconia Sculpture Park's new leader aims to go beyond 'big art'
A summer solstice festival, a camp for kids and a wider diversity of artists are all on Porcella's agenda.
Stage & Arts
The true beauty of the salon: 'People laugh in that chair and cry in that chair'
Babies, jobs, divorces, illnesses and more: As in "Steel Magnolias," Minnesotans share life's joys and sorrows in a "community" of their making.
Music
'Wits' cast promises 'nonstop swear words' in Saturday's radio-free reunion show
John Moe, John Munson and their friends will meet up again at the Fitzgerald Theater four years after their MPR-affiliated show went off the air.
Music
St. Paul theater cuts two shows, including 'Evita,' to counter budget shortfall
Because of larger casts, as well as musicians, musicals are generally costlier to produce than straight plays.
Stage & Arts
'Six' wives of maniacal English monarch Henry VIII appear at the Mall of America
Stars of the Broadway-bound show, which plays the Ordway Center in Nov. before going to New York, performed numbers and signed autographs.
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Playwright Lauren Yee has won over $400,000 in literary prizes in 2019
Lauren Yee, who considers the Twin Cities an artistic home, has won over $400,000 in literary prizes and has four upcoming shows in the area.
Stage & Arts
Review: 'God' puts the divine one on the psychologist's couch
In "O my God!," the divine one has a crisis of confidence.
Stage & Arts
Gremlin Theatre puts us in the WWI foxhole with decisionmakers
Fine acting and a handsome set create a powerful mood.
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Minnesota artists go big for 'On the Verge' exhibition at Rochester Art Center
Rochester Art Center hosts the yearly Minnesota showcase.
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Meet the folks who serve as air traffic controllers for Twin Cities theater
Combining an air traffic controller's calm with nimble troubleshooting skills, stage managers keep shows in tiptop shape.
Stage & Arts
'A New Brain,' the Bigfoot of musicals, gets regional Twin Cities premiere
"A New Brain," a quirky, problematic show that's been more phantom than real, has been deftly staged at Artistry.
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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
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- Demolition of groundbreaking Iowa art installation set to begin soon
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