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Stage & Arts
March 14, 2019
Purple Electric Play! Machine Project, 2014. Asher Hartman, featuring Jasmine Orpilla, Philip Littell, Chelsea Rector, Joe Seely and Drew Thataussie.

L.A. artist and psychic will lead a group meditation at Minneapolis' White Page Gallery

Stage & Arts
March 13, 2019
Pangea World Theater's "Mother Courage and Her Children" runs March 15-31 at the Lab Theater. /Bruce Silcox photo

Minneapolis theater reflects on war's costs with Bertolt Brecht's 'Mother Courage'

Stage & Arts
March 13, 2019
With a cast of mostly first-generation Americans, Jungle Theater's "School Girls" features actors with Senegalese, Nigerian, Somali, Liberian and Jama

Inspired by Minnesota beauty queen, Jungle Theater's 'School Girls' questions colorism

A Minnesota beauty queen inspired Jocelyn Bioh's play about discrimination according to skin tone.
Stage & Arts
March 13, 2019
After shutdown scare, Minneapolis' Soap Factory will reopen by Labor Day

After shutdown scare, Minneapolis' Soap Factory will reopen by Labor Day

The building will be converted to office space, but the Twin Cities experimental art venue will have a home in the basement level, rent-free, for two years.
Stage & Arts
March 12, 2019
Writer/director Eric Simonson has made sports-themed shows a specialty, with Broadway's "Bronx Bombers" and "Lombardi" among his credits. The latest i

Sports-obsessed director takes swing at 1919 World Series scandal with Minnesota Opera premiere

Writer and director Eric Simonson sees an "uplifting tragedy" in the 1919 World Series scandal.
Stage & Arts
March 12, 2019
"Hoop Dreams"

Director Eric Simonson on his favorite (and least favorite) sports movies

Stage & Arts
March 11, 2019
Sara Richardson, Ashawnti Sakina Ford, Nora Montañez and Audrey Park from "She Persists: The Great Divide III" at Pillsbury House Theatre. credit

Pillsbury House Theatre serves up five playlets on women's status in today's divided America

Minneapolis theater has commissioned five playwrights to ruminate on the status of women in "She Persists: The Great Divide III."
Stage & Arts
March 11, 2019
Sheletta Brundidge and five of her friends started a book club to read Michelle Obama's BECOMING. Now they all have tickets to the upcoming Michelle O

As Michelle Obama's rock-star-scale book tour hits St. Paul, fans are bedazzled

Six women formed a club to read one book: "Becoming." And when its author brings her arena show to town this week, they'll be there.
Stage & Arts
March 10, 2019
"Tenderly: The Rosemary Clooney Musical" at Old Log Theater.

Old Log Theatre channels Rosemary Clooney with nostalgic jukebox musical

Old Log Theatre channels a 20th-century legend with a clumsy but tuneful jukebox musical.
Stage & Arts
March 10, 2019
Tracy Maloney playing Norma McCorvey, aka Roe, acted alongside Jasmine Hughes playing Aileen Jenks as they rehearsed Tuesday. ] ANTHONY SOUFFLE &#x202

Mixed Blood Theatre's 'Roe' remembers abortion rights plaintiff 'exploited by both sides'

Opening Friday at Mixed Blood Theatre, "Roe" takes a closer look at the complicated woman behind the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark Roe v. Wade case.
Stage & Arts
March 8, 2019
A golden, mirrored, 15-foot-tall egg is on display at the American Swedish Institute. It's a sculpture -- but it's also a functioning sauna. Swedish a

Giant golden egg-shaped sauna lands in Mpls. to spark sweaty conversation

The 16-foot-tall "Solar Egg" hatched this week at the American Swedish Institute where visitors can sauna in its steamy, 180-degree heat.
Stage & Arts
March 8, 2019
Photo by Joan Marcus The cast of the touring production of "Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory."

'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' is sugary, not sweet for Minneapolis theatergoers

The Broadway tour lands at the Orpheum with a terrific kid performer and a lot of dead air.
Stage & Arts
March 7, 2019
Rick Shiomi was photographed Friday, May 8, 2015 in the Star Tribune studios. ] Aaron Lavinsky • aaron.lavinsky@startribune.com Rick Shiomi, co-foun

Director removes racism and yellowface from Minneapolis staging of 'The Mikado'

We asked playwright and theater artist Rick Shiomi to share his vision for addressing racism in "The Mikado."
Stage & Arts
March 7, 2019
They first met in summer stock theater in Wisconsin 23 years, cementing a Will-and-Grace friendship that has seen them through their stage careers, an

Acting BFFs pucker up for Chanhassen Dinner Theatres' bestselling 'Mamma Mia!'

Two actors bring special chemistry to the latest show at Chanhassen Dinner Theatres.
Music
March 7, 2019
Blake Shelton performs at the 2018 Nashville Songwriter Awards at Ryman Auditorium on Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2018, in Nashville, Tenn. (Photo by Al Wagn

Best of the Week: Blake Shelton, 'The Cradle Will Rock,' Jungle, Alvin Ailey, more

Stage & Arts
March 7, 2019

Cow bones and clay make a striking sculpture show in St. Paul

Stage & Arts
March 7, 2019
CONTRA-TIEMPO: joyUS justUS. Photo by Tyrone Domingo.

Contra-Tiempo serves up salsa, hip-hop and Latin dance at St. Paul's Ordway Center

Stage & Arts
March 7, 2019
"Rodrigo Hernández: A Complete Unknown" exhibit at Midway Contemporary Art.

Venture into the unknown at Midway Contemporary Art in Minneapolis

Don't overthink the work of Rodrigo Hernández.
Stage & Arts
March 6, 2019

Walker Art Center show mixes video, dance and Claudia Rankine's writing on racial violence

Stage & Arts
March 5, 2019
The Guthrie Theater announced its 2019-20 season on Tuesday.

Guthrie Theater's 2019-20 season travels from Southern 'Steel Magnolias' to British 'Emma'

There's lots of romance and comedy on tap for theater's 2019-20 season.
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