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Former 'Prairie Home' performer starts a new chapter with podcast about battling back
Sue Scott chuckles about it now, but her self-esteem took a serious hit when she was told she was let go from the radio show.
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British director and adapter Greg Banks has become a master of reducing classic texts to their play-filled essences
Adapter Greg Banks has become beloved in the Twin Cities for his re-imagined classics.
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Minneapolis piece combines movement and rock music to thrilling effect
It's hard to pin down but the concert/dance/theater piece is thrilling.
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'Rocky Horror' still (somewhat) outrageous after all these years
The musical's second act falters, but lead Gracie Anderson never does.
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Minnesota Opera's 'Elektra' is a bold re-imagining for the modern age
REVIEW: Minnesota Opera uses digital technology to re-imagine Strauss' work as an opera within a movie.
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Children's Theatre's 'Snow White' full of theatrical virtuosity while raising questions about stepmom archetype
Review: Children's Theatre's entertaining "Snow White" offers theatrical virtuosity with its cast of two.
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Bloomington play about residents of a senior center packs in a lot
The shape-shifting play is a wild, if not always successful, ride.
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New Walker Art Center curator wants to engage 'wide variety of audiences'
As the new chief curator, Henriette Huldisch has been tasked with thinking "about how art matters."
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3 spooky musicals to catch this month
You know it's almost Halloween when even the musicals are horrifying.
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Review: 'Mean Girls' offers colorful hellscape at Orpheum
"Mean Girls" offers a funny, sweet and superficial view of the hellscape that is high school.
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Beautifully acted St. Paul play has lots to say about food and grief
"Aubergine" overcomes rough spots to arrive at a beautiful place.
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Using movie technology, Minnesota Opera stages a plugged-in 'Elektra'
High-tech wizardry adds buzz to the seething Strauss work that opens Minnesota Opera's season.
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Children's Theatre, Twin Cities theater community try to heal after abuse
Some survivors say CTC is doing too little, too late.
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Minneapolis Institute of Art turns to Texas, hires second female director
Katherine Luber has led the San Antonio Museum of Art for eight years and brings some business world know-how to the job.
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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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- Native American Art curator departs Minneapolis Institute of Art
- Broadway actor quits CTC's 'A Year With Frog and Toad' 2 days before opening night
- Review: 'Flex' brings hoops and dreams to life at Penumbra Theatre
- Review: Zorongo Flamenco's performance sends a fitting message to soon-to-close Cowles Center
- Sculptor Zoran Mojsilov has rocked the Twin Cities for more than 40 years
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