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What 'Nutcracker' are you? Breaking down 5 classics and 3 funky ones
From beautiful to bawdy, here are eight great takes on the Christmas classic.
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What will Olga Viso's legacy be? Her final year at the Walker was telling
Her decade as director culminated in a momentous way, with shows on Cunningham and Cuba, the Sculpture Garden reopening — and "Scaffold," of course.
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Ticket prices becoming moving target at some Twin Cities theaters
Dynamic pricing, which springs from the law of supply and demand is spreading to Minnesota entertainment venues.
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Meet the Pictureman, whose goal was to show 'the best of black life' in Minnesota
"The best of black life" in Minnesota comes alive in a book and show of photographs by the late Charles Chamblis.
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Stunning photography captures the Dakota Access pipeline protest in new Minneapolis exhibit
The exhibit, "Lakota Resistance: The Bison, the Horse, and the River," opens Friday at Minneapolis Photo Center.
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'Sister Act' has a rapturous second coming at Chanhassen Dinner Theatres
A revival of the Chanhassen Dinner Theatres smash finds new ways to thrill.
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Zenon Dance delivers satisfying concert despite injury and last-minute program changes
Review: The company exhibited rock-solid professionalism, despite last-minute program changes to its fall concert.
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Walker Art Center director quits amid tensions with board
Viso has led the Walker since 2008 and oversaw a $41 million renovation of the campus, including an expansion of the Sculpture Garden.
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Review: Park Square staging doesn't find the tears in Steinbeck's 'Of Mice and Men'
Review: A perfunctory staging in Park Square's nettlesome space drains heart from poignant play.
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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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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
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- The Old Log, Minnesota's oldest theater, is shutting down
- What would be lost if Intermedia closes? Twin Cities artists reflect
- Walker Art Center debuts major exhibition by 1980s art star Keith Haring
- Prairie Island Indian Community requests the return of 'Mankato Hanging Rope'
- Work that shimmers with water and glitter reflects Minneapolis artist's complex story
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