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Courtly dances, spiritual journeys and a rave at Minnesota Dance Theatre
Premieres by emerging choreographers push MDT out of comfort zone.
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Minneapolis theater's 'Chicago' connects the Jazz Age to reality television
Britta Ollmann and Reed Sigmund lead stellar Theater Latté Da cast.
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Review: Morisseau's 'Pipeline' packs a wallop at St. Paul's Penumbra Theatre
"Genius" award winner Dominique Morisseau explores the so-called school-to-prison pipeline.
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Messy, minimalist 'Winter's Tale' resonates with the times
High-caliber actors shine in Ten Thousand Things production.
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Twin Cities actor has been making it work ever since his South Dakota childhood
Steven Epp has made good on his teenage dreams of becoming an actor.
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After Cuba and South Africa, next stop for Minnesota Orchestra is Vietnam
It was invited to perform in Hanoi for the 25th anniversary of restored diplomatic relations. It also will play South Korea for the first time.
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Minneapolis center presents an all-star show of Native prints from 'Mni Sota'
"Transference," an exhibit at Highpoint Center, reflects on a land whose very name is about the idea of reflection.
The Good Life
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.
Music
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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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
- 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
- Sculptor Zoran Mojsilov has rocked the Twin Cities for more than 40 years
- Firing at Mia sparks union accusations of toxic work environment
- Historic opera house could be small Minnesota town's artistic salvation
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