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Twin Cities actor Tod Petersen is living life one chapter at a time
Local stage star Tod Petersen took a break to get off the grid and explore his love of life.
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Disney's touring musical 'Newsies' to make Twin Cities premiere at Orpheum
This musical by composer Alan Menken, lyricist Jack Feldman and book-writer Harvey Fierstein is a classic David and Goliath story.
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Italian actor clinically dead after botched hanging scene during play
Italian actor Raphael Schumacher was declared clinically dead on Thursday, days after accidentally strangling himself during the performance of a play in Pisa.
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History Theatre show presents a multicultural hero from Minnesota's past
"We talk about Paul Bunyan — well, this guy was that mythic," playwright Carlyle Brown says. "He was like Minnesota's Daniel Boone."
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When Kenzo Tange brought the Mpls. Institute of Art into modern age
The Minneapolis Institute of Art's 1974 addition is one of just two Kenzo Tange designs completed in the United States.
Music
Gallery: Chris Thile, Brandi Carlile and Ben Folds on 'Prairie Home Companion'
Garrison Keillor was conspicuously absent while his new protege Chris Thile took a test run of the classic radio program at the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul.
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Review: 'Carmina Burana' captures the range of despair, passion, lust
Minnesota Dance Theatre's production of well-known cantata is powerful.
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Franco-Belgian experimental show 'Germinal' tackles big ideas in simple ways
REVIEW: Vandalism takes the stage in the concluding show of Out There, which tackles big ideas in simple ways.
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What 'Pericles' tells us about Joe Haj's new direction at Guthrie
Our critics look for lessons and signals in the new artistic director's first staging at the Guthrie Theater.
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Jessica Dickey explores grace after gunfire in solo 'Amish Project' at Guthrie
Dickey knew right off the bat that she did not want to craft a docudrama. For one thing, that would've been too painful. Instead, she opted for a fictional meditation on the people and the events.
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New watercolors by art star Lars Lerin showcased at American Swedish Institute
Dark, brooding and romantic, the watercolors of Swedish art star Lars Lerin have an unsettling, febrile beauty in his memorable new show at the American Swedish Institute.
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Search on for new leader of grant-issuing Metropolitan Regional Arts Council
Jeff Prauer has stepped down as head of the council, a post he has held since 2008.
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Hennepin Trust to bring Tony winners 'Fun Home' and 'Curious Incident' to Minneapolis
Ten shows are announced for the Hennepin Theatre Trust's 2016-17 season — but not "Hamilton."
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Children's Theatre picks noted arts leader Kimberly Motes as managing director
The highly respected leader in arts and education comes to the theater at a time of crisis over allegations of sexual abuse in the 1980s.
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Tanya Barfield's 'Bright Half Life' has its regional premiere at Pillsbury House Theatre in Minneapolis
Tanya Barfield's new play gets its regional premiere at Pillsbury House Theatre.
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Around the Region
- Frank Stella, artist renowned for blurring the lines between painting and sculpture, dies at 87
- 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
Most Read
- Review: 'Blended Harmony' at History Theatre shines light on Minnesota's Kim Loo Sisters with style
- Review: 'Flex' brings hoops and dreams to life at Penumbra Theatre
- Native American Art curator departs Minneapolis Institute of Art
- Walker Art Center debuts major exhibition by 1980s art star Keith Haring
- Review: Guthrie's epic Shakespeare History Plays open in mountainous marathon
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