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Review: Cabaret darling McKay sings/tells odd tale of jazz musician Billy Tipton
REVIEW: Nellie McKay's "A Girl Named Bill" is a ton of clever fun.
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Immigrants' dreams and fears lend heart to 'Flower Drum Song' at Park Square
REVIEW: Production by Mu Performing Arts and Park Square retains earnest soul and charm.
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Much confusion but little mystery in Illusion Theater spy drama 'Miranda'
REVIEW: Illusion Theater's "Miranda" frustrates any attempt to understand the secretive world.
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Ragamala Dance evokes solidarity with banned immigrants
REVIEW: Performance evokes solidarity with banned immigrants.
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Review: 'La Mélancolie des Dragons' at the Walker
The final show in Walker's Out There series pokes gentle fun at consumerism and the performance-art world.
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How Minnesota artists make a living: 'You are the CEO of your own company'
Artists are the original small-business folk, cobbling together a living from any number of pursuits that employ their skills and talents.
Music
Singer Nellie McKay brings her gender-swapping show to the Dakota Jazz Club
Cabaret darling Nellie McKay brings her gender-swapping show "A Girl Named Bill" to the Dakota.
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Startling Walker show explores women's search for peace in a troubled world
Okwui Okpokwasili brings all her gifts to "Poor People's TV Room," a piece she created with commissioning help from the Walker.
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Batsheva inspires Mpls. dance lovers with its signature 'Gaga' style
REVIEW: With its signature "Gaga" style, Batsheva Dance Company makes everyone want to move.
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An artist's take on American carnage
Through images of lynching, photographer brings history of racial violence into present day.
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Want to see 'Hamilton' here? First comes a lot of Andrew Lloyd Webber
Subscribers for the full 2017-18 Twin Cities Broadway season will get first dibs on tickets to the 2018-19 presentation of "Hamilton."
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Review: Seinfeld did not miss at Minneapolis' Orpheum Theatre
The 62-year-old master comic and keen observer of human foibles, got something of a workout onstage Friday.
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Israel's Batsheva Dance Company brings healing 'Gaga' method to Minneapolis
Choreographer invented the movement language to deal with a dance-related back injury he suffered 40 years ago.
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For Twin Cities troupe Mu, 'Flower Drum Song' will be a celebration
The theater troupe marks its anniversary with a piece of Asian-American history.
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Photography from 'Where the Children Sleep' at the American Swedish Institute
The exhibition features photos of Syrian refugee children by Swedish photographer Magnus Wennman.
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Around the Region
- 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
- Artist and curators refuse to open Israel pavilion at Venice Biennale until cease-fire, hostage deal
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- Broadway actor quits CTC's 'A Year With Frog and Toad' 2 days before opening night
- Review: CTC's 'A Year With Frog and Toad' lands deftly without missing a step
- 'Blended Harmony' at History Theatre unearths tuneful history of the first Asians on Broadway
- Review: Guthrie's epic Shakespeare History Plays open in mountainous marathon
- What would be lost if Intermedia closes? Twin Cities artists reflect
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