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First trial begins in new lawsuits arising from Children's Theatre scandal
Alleging she was sexually assaulted in 1983, Laura Stearns sued CTC and its ex-teacher Jason McLean.
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The Guthrie gets game: Here are 8 plays in which theater tackles sports
A basketball drama opening Friday is the latest attempt to build a field of dreams onstage.
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Minnesota rocker Chan Poling turns his stage smash 'Glensheen' into an album
Fans of the popular musical, which has sold out all its runs at St. Paul's History Theatre, can finally hear it in its glory.
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Walker kicks off Out There series with intense show
Review: Rabih Mroué's "Borborygmus" feels like a figurative self-immolation dressed up cleverly as experimental theater.
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Native artist Rosy Simas pulls various threads to build a bold new dance work, 'Weave'
An ambitious dance work premiering Saturday in St. Paul is "an invitation to true inclusiveness."
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St. Paul museum tries to get a conversation started with its inaugural show
Inaugural show at Minnesota Museum of American Art offers "something for everybody."
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In Heart of the Beast to end puppet parade, make significant cuts
The theater is being squeezed by drop in foundation grants, overall funding.
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Burnsville resident and 'Ghostbusters' star Ernie Hudson returns to Twin Cities stage
Screen star Ernie Hudson reflects on the ups and downs of a life launched on a Twin Cities stage.
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Well-acted St. Paul play finds farce and tragedy in memory disorder
Review: Sharp direction and acting put polish on uneven "tragic farce."
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Actor and founding member of Penumbra Theatre dies at 74
Abdul Salaam El Razzac, 74, was in Penumbra Theatre's very first main stage show and has been a pillar of the storied acting company ever since.
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Meet the showman who made Chanhassen an unlikely entertainment mecca
In a remarkable turnaround tale, Michael Brindisi has made Chanhassen Dinner Theatres an entertainment mecca.
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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
Most Read
- 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
- 'A Year With Frog and Toad' closes a chapter at CTC
- Italy halts loans to Minneapolis Institute of Art following dispute over 'Doryphoros' sculpture
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