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Sensory-friendly production of 'Lion King' tempers the roar
Low-sensory show, where effects such as strobe lights and shattering sounds will be modulated, caters to an autistic audience.
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Review: Guthrie's 'Disgraced' is a shattering, revelatory production
Guthrie's timely show about Islamophobia, personal ambition and American ideals offers a lot to chew on.
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Dance review: Eclectic Edge takes flight on a midsummer night
REVIEW: Eclectic Edge Ensemble puts a new spin on a Shakespeare classic.
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Children's Theatre's 'Pinocchio' holds us by more than a nose
The story of "Pinocchio" has always had us by the nose. But director Greg Banks' version at the Children's Theatre plumbs some deeper, contemporary themes.
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'Sweeney Todd' collects powerful moments at Mill City Opera
REVIEW: A bit less restraint would have released a bit more evil.
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2 Minneapolis shows display the changing nature of landscape art
A venerable art genre may focus on the natural world, but it reveals much about human nature, as well.
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Playwright Ayad Akhtar becomes reluctant voice for Muslim Americans
Ayad Akhtar wades into a heady debate in his play "Disgraced," opening this week at the Guthrie.
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Merce Cunningham anchors an ambitious Walker Art Center 2016-17 season
The eclectic roster includes nine commissioned works, three of them tied to a Cunningham exhibit opening in February.
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Walker Art Center gets $1 million from Mellon Foundation to foster artistic collaborations
Mellon money will nurture cross-disciplinary work at the Minneapolis center.
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1,700 dinners a night: Show starts in kitchen at Chanhassen Dinner Theatres
The show starts long before the curtain rises as dinner is served at the ultra-busy Chanhassen Dinner Theatres.
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Touring 'Lion King' wears its crown well at Orpheum
REVIEW: The tour production is royally entertaining, with only a few stumbles along the way.
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Monet and more on loan from Microsoft billionaire at Mpls. Institute of Art
With an estimated $18 billion fortune, Paul G. Allen can afford the kind of pictures most people only dream of — or encounter in museums.
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Minneapolis Institute of Art has highest attendance in 101-year history
The Minneapolis museum welcomed 760,000 visitors during its fiscal year.
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End of an era: Minn. Centennial Showboat opens final show in St. Paul
"Under the Gaslight," which opens Friday at Harriet Island in St. Paul, concludes a tradition that began in 1958 with university students and staff producing summer melodramas on the boat.
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Around the Region
- 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
- 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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- Review: Guthrie's epic Shakespeare History Plays open in mountainous marathon
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