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Plaques, cornerstones and friezes: Twin Cities buildings tell stories cast in concrete
Inscriptions, plaques and completion dates carved in stone connected buildings to their time, place and purpose.
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Largest U.S. exhibition of Cuban art in 70 years coming to Walker
Arriving November 2017, "Adiós Utopia" boasts more than 100 works by dozens of artists — offering a complex portrait of life on the island since 1950.
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Cirque du Soleil's 'Toruk' fails to take flight at Target Center
REVIEW: Cirque du Soleil's retelling of "Avatar" lands like a dud at Target Center. There's a lot of eye candy, but ultimately the production fails to soar.
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Meet the Minnesotan who helped launch the careers of Lewis Black and other comedy stars
Dan Schlissel makes edgy new comedy the old-fashioned way. He's the owner of Stand Up Records, one of the country's premier indie comedy labels.
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Twin Cities actor is having a Glamour moment in magazine's new issue
Sun Mee Chomet, who is in 'The Last Firefly' that premieres at the Children's Theatre Friday, is featured in photos and video in the style magazine
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Minnesota Opera's 'Romeo and Juliet' is first-rate production of second-rate opera
Review: Minnesota Opera's production is eye-filling and smart, with some seriously gutsy singing.
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Grandma takes on gun violence in Heart of the Beast's poetic 'Queen'
REVIEW: Puppetry and poetry amplify the heartache in Heart of the Beast's "Queen."
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'Ragtime' gives heart to a powerful American parable
Review: The old story turns on current issues like wealth, racial division and immigration.
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'Solo' dances impressive, but don't always connect with audience
Some pieces were better than others at connecting with the audience.
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'The Children' is a must-see show at Pillsbury House Theatre
REVIEW: Director Noël Raymond proves herself up to the task in an exquisite production that opened last weekend at Pillsbury House Theatre in Minneapolis.
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Election season means it's the right time for 'Ragtime'
American dreams and despair mingle in the musical, getting a revival by Theatre Latté Da.
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Patrick Coyle leads a terrific cast in Yellow Tree's 'Death of a Salesman'
REVIEW: This view of the broken American dream is as potent as ever in Yellow Tree's searing production.
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Review: 'Elephant & Piggie' struggles to connect
CTC season opener "Elephant & Piggie" comes off as an experiment that doesn't click until the end.
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Theatrical looks: Twin Cities actors don dramatic fashions for Ivey Awards
How did the Twin Cities theater community celebrate the 12th annual Ivey Awards? With daring dresses, dapper suits and plenty of sparkle.
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- Frank Stella, artist renowned for blurring the lines between painting and sculpture, dies at 87
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- 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
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