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Review: 'Keeper of the Light' shines on a quiet female hero
REVIEW: Red Eye offers an inventive portrait of a "Keeper of the Light" who challenged gender roles.
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Children's Theatre cooks up a mean 'Grinch'
REVIEW: Spoiler alert: The kid wins in Children's Theatre Company's reprise of the Dr. Seuss musical.
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Review: 'Roller Derby Queen' tells a serious tale with welcome laughter
REVIEW: "Roller Derby Queen" is a deft blend of lightness and dark.
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A spare and powerful 'Curious Incident' at Mixed Blood
REVIEW: Less sentiment means more direct access to the play's difficult truths.
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10 fresh ideas for Twin Cities holiday entertainment
Let past favorites guide you to new plans this holiday season.
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5 actors who've played Scrooge at Guthrie are proud members of Ebenezer Club
Actors treasure the role, even if it means saying "bah humbug" to pretty much everything else.
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Walker Art Center show presents Cuba as the land of disenchantment
"Adiós Utopia" is a portrait of Cuba's revolution as told by the artists who stayed.
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Children's Theatre rekindles its Dr. Seuss connection with 'Grinch'
Dr. Seuss and the Children's Theatre have a relationship that goes back nearly 40 years.
Movies
Disney On Ice bringing 'Frozen' to Twin Cities for 9 shows
Target Center will host the ice version of the hit movie for five days starting Feb. 28.
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Huge Improv's 'Family Dinner' is a comedy show aimed at the heart
REVIEW: "Family Dinner" at Huge Theater sets the table for more than laughs.
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Small Twin Cities theater tackles great white whale in 'Moby Dick'
Intimate adaptation of the Melville classic aims to put us on board the whaling ship.
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Ex-Varsity owner on the run, fined $2.5M in sex abuse case
The former owner of the Varsity Theater and Loring Pasta Bar didn't show for court hearings and has fled to Mexico, according to attorney Jeff Anderson. The judgement was in one of five sexual-abuse lawsuits stemming from McLean's working for the Childrens' Theatre Company.
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Transatlantic Love Affair offers entertaining slice of piracy with 'Privateer' at Illusion Theater
Transatlantic Love Affair stages a funny, flippant take on history's notorious criminals.
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Solo work 'The Architect' plumbs the trial and error of creativity
REVIEW: Timmy Wagner of Arena Dances explores mind-body connections of creativity.
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How selfies reflect a new generation of artists
There's more to selfies than meets the eye, especially among the millennial artists of "The Selfie Generation."
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Around the Region
- 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
- A judge blocks the demolition of a groundbreaking Iowa art installation
Most Read
- Prairie Island Indian Community requests the return of 'Mankato Hanging Rope'
- Italy halts loans to Minneapolis Institute of Art following dispute over 'Doryphoros' sculpture
- 'A Year With Frog and Toad' closes a chapter at CTC
- 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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