Artcetera: Minnesota actor chosen for 'Frozen'

She got her start as a child, doing community theater in Eagan, but soon Caroline Innerbichler will embody a Disney heroine for the entire country. A Minnesota native who has appeared regularly at Ordway Center, Chanhassen Dinner Theatres, Children's Theatre and Theater Latté Da, Innerbichler has been cast in the national tour of the smash Broadway musical "Frozen." She'll play Anna — the royal sister who does not sing "Let It Go." Last summer, audiences saw her playing the lead in the Ordway's "Mamma Mia," but she cut her (gleaming) Disney princess teeth as Ariel in Chanhassen's "The Little Mermaid," where she also appeared as Sandy in "Grease." Innerbichler previously toured the country in the stage adaptation of "Little House on the Prairie," which premiered at the Guthrie Theater. She will reappear with the Guthrie this summer for "Guys and Dolls." Innerbichler, like two-time Tony Award nominee Laura Osnes, began her career with teacher and director Dennis Swanson, who created theater programs at several Minnesota schools. The "Frozen" tour kicks off in November and will check in at Minneapolis' Orpheum Theatre next May.

CHRIS HEWITT

We really thought we were done writing about Lizzo for at least a week or two following her long-awaited homecoming Sunday at the Palace. But then she went straight from her St. Paul show to the fashion world's biggest event of the year, where she made a splash even among some of the top trendsetting celebs. "Lizzo rolled in, spun around and started happily cursing, spreading joy through expletives," the New York Times wrote of the hip-hop star's appearance at the Met Gala in New York Monday. Falling in alongside the likes of Lady Gaga, the Kardashians, Katy Perry and Cardi B, Lizzo wore a pink dress by Marc Jacobs with a matching pink boa-style wrap and candy-like hair. "I feel very sexy, glamorous, expensive and beautiful," she told Vogue.

CHRIS RIEMENSCHNEIDER

Northern Spark co-director Steve Dietz is stepping away from the arts all-nighter he founded in 2008. His last day will come sometime early next year, after a gradual phaseout of administrative duties. "I believe that change is positive and that it is important for generations to move on and let younger generations come in and have their own point of view and approach to things," said Dietz by phone. He does not have any solid plans regarding his next move, but is currently working closely with co-director Sarah Peters on a succession plan. This year's festival, themed "We Are Here: Resilience, Renewal and Regeneration," will take place June 14-15 from sunset to sunrise each night.

ALICIA ELER

Red Eye Theater is still searching for a permanent performance space, but the experimental company does have a new artistic director — or rather, seven of them: playwrights Hayley Finn and Rachel Jendrzejewski; theater makers Theo Langason and Andrew Lee Dolan, and dance artists Emily Gastineau, Valerie Oliveiro and Jeffrey Wells. According to Gastineau, the benefit of hiring seven people is that each brings connections to other institutions, paving the way for future partnerships. "Frankly, everyone is already leveraging an artistic practice with various jobs," she said. Red Eye was forced from its original home near Loring Park in September, making way for a new six-story apartment development just as its founders Steve Busa and Miriam Must were preparing to retire. The group's annual New Works 4 Weeks Festival opens May 30 at the Cowles Center's intimate JSB Tek Box.

The Minneapolis Institute of Art just acquired 33 new works by African-American artists from the South. The art came via the Souls Grown Deep Foundation, an organization dedicated to placing those artists in museums' permanent collections. "Relative to other encyclopedic museums, we don't really have a high percentage of works by African-American artists," said painting curator Bob Cozzolino. These works will become part of a show in 2020. In the meantime, Cozzolino is working with African art curator Jan-Lodewijk Grootaers to put one of the pieces, Thornton Dial's "Monument to the Minds of the Little Negro Steelworkers" (2001-03), on view in Gallery 375 sometime in August.A.E.