Stage & Arts
What the State Fair art show says about Minnesotans
It appears we're a thoughtful bunch, with a soft spot for nature and nostalgia, and a bent for the surreal.
Stage & Arts
Review: 'Rise Up, O Men' doesn't sour the Church Basement Ladies' formula
REVIEW: The stage comedy franchise adds a little Y chromosome to its successful shtick.
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Review: The joy of dance comes through in 'Rhythmically Speaking' at Southern Theater
REVIEW: The "Rhythmically Speaking" showcase offers pure enjoyment & thoughtful sizzle.
Stage & Arts
Review: 'DAI,' at Minnesota Jewish Theatre, contemplates violence in a civil society
"DAI" brings us to the front lines of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict — a coffee shop in a teeming city.
Stage & Arts
Venerable St. Paul dance studio to close after more than 60 years
St. Paul Ballet's Grand Avenue studio, which for nearly 50 years was under the Andahazy Dance Studio name, is closing. The building's owners have decided to retire and do something else with the property.
Music
State Fair to tighten security at gates, around grounds this year
Virtually everything will be searched at the fair's 11 gates. The Great Minnesota Get-Together starts Aug. 25 and runs through Labor Day.
Stage & Arts
Minnesota sex abuse survivor finds healing in new play 'Trust'
A new play opening this week in Minneapolis looks at clergy sex abuse from a victim's perspective.
Stage & Arts
Selfie alert! 'Frame' yourself at scenic spots along Mississippi River
Nineteen frames show off "masterpiece" vistas from Fridley to Prescott, Wis.
Stage & Arts
Review: 'Paint Your Wagon' gets a polished reboot at Ordway
The producers threw out Alan Jay Lerner's book, kept the songs by composer Frederick Loewe and lyricist Lerner, and enlisted Marans to craft a new story that's exciting and relevant.
Stage & Arts
'Paint Your Wagon' gets a fresh topcoat as it opens at Ordway Center
A 1950s musical by the "My Fair Lady" team of Lerner and Loewe gets a 21st-century remake.
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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
- Native American Art curator departs Minneapolis Institute of Art
- Sculptor Zoran Mojsilov has rocked the Twin Cities for more than 40 years
- Broadway actor quits CTC's 'A Year With Frog and Toad' 2 days before opening night
- Review: 'Flex' brings hoops and dreams to life at Penumbra Theatre
- What would be lost if Intermedia closes? Twin Cities artists reflect
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