Music
'Carmen' is cozy, community-minded at Brainerd's Lakes Area Music Festival
Review: Brainerd's annual festival offered a more nuanced take on Bizet's antiheroine.
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Jazz is a path to salvation for manic DJ in Guthrie's 'Holler Sessions'
REVIEW: In a Guthrie solo show, a DJ preaches the sacred sounds that move him.
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Cedar Cultural Center's Hear Here! blurs boundaries of music, dance
Review: The Cedar's Hear Here! festival showcased three new collaborative dancer-musician projects.
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Hope shines through stories of Asian-American immigrants to Minnesota
REVIEW: A unique show harnesses the experiences of Twin Cities Asian-Americans.
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Review: Guthrie's 'Native Gardens' is the best stage comedy of the summer
Guthrie staging of "Native Gardens" is the summer's comedy winner.
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Ordway's 'Jesus Christ Superstar' looks super but is short on soul
REVIEW: Musical boasts great voices, choreography and design, but at the expense of soul.
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French farce provides fun introduction to Gremlin Theatre's new St. Paul space
REVIEW: The troupe presents a French farce to inaugurate St. Paul space.
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Dance works at Momentum festival confront dystopia, celebrate black sisterhood
REVIEW: The annual two-week Momentum festival begins with works confronting dystopia and celebrating black sisterhood.
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Brave New Workshop's 'Guardians of the Fallacy' takes aim at Trumpworld
REVIEW: Its latest sketch-comedy revue aims zingers at Washington.
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Streamlined, propulsive 'Motown the Musical' rolls through Twin Cities
REVIEW: The tweaked musical offers a soulful soundtrack of the 1960s and '70s even as it tells of the rise of founder Berry Gordy and his romance with superstar Diana Ross.
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Blackout Improv troupe shows sparks of genius in New Griots Festival at Guthrie
The 10-day event reflects a renaissance of talented young black performers.
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Park Square Theatre's latest Nero Wolfe play offers escapist summer fun
REVIEW: Park Square Theatre's latest Nero Wolfe adaptation is an entertaining whodunit.
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Guthrie Theater's 'Sunday in the Park' is an elegant stroll with art and heart
Review: Sondheim musical "Sunday in the Park With George" is a beaut at the Guthrie.
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Review: Tap dance show by Kaleena Miller forgoes the flash and bears down on the beat
REVIEW: Rhythm rules Kaleena Miller's starkly staged "Shift," which features a different musician nightly adding to the percussive score.
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'An American in Paris' offers old-fashioned charms at Ordway
REVIEW: Fueled by graceful dance and Gershwin melodies, the stage reincarnation of the Gene Kelly musical is a vehicle for romance.
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Don't be afraid of 'Ghost the Musical'
REVIEW: Although the songs are bland, an appealing cast brings this musical to life at Old Log.
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Jungle Theater musical 'Fly by Night' gets lost in the stars
REVIEW: What starts as a small, innocent, love story loses its glow in the second act.
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'Rent' revival rocks Minneapolis' Orpheum Theatre
Energetic revival proves that the landmark 1996 musical is still resonant, even if sometimes quaint.
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Grief and comedy partner in 'The Baltimore Waltz'
REVIEW: Theatre Coup d'Etat offers a lively revival of Paula Vogel's "The Baltimore Waltz."
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Review: One actress conjures an entire world in the solo show 'Pike St.'
Writer/actor Nilaja Sun delivers a bevy of colorful characters in this tour de force solo show.
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