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Despite its comic flights, Minnesota Opera production is grounded in real-world issues
REVIEW: "Flight" eventually finds its way in the story of a stateless refugee.
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Artistry's 'Bridges' delivers in subtle, beautiful tones
Review: Musical version of "The Bridges of Madison County" soars on lead's voice.
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Minneapolis musical captures the spirits of Bob Marley and Jamaica
CTC's Bob Marley musical, "Three Little Birds," salutes the optimistic spirit of Jamaica.
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Review: Mark Morris company dances 'Sgt. Pepper' into the new century
Famed choreographer Mark Morris mined the Beatles landmark to find contemporary relevance.
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Dance inspired by Beatles' 'Sgt. Pepper' is guaranteed to raise a smile
The Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper" inspires a new dance work reuniting former Bad Plus pianist Ethan Iverson with mentor Mark Morris.
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Minnesota Opera program turns budding talents into potential stage stars
"Flight," opening Saturday at the Ordway, is an object lesson in how Minnesota Opera nurtures new talents.
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St. Paul's Park Square Theatre cuts job of artistic director
Facing funding shortfalls, the St. Paul theater eliminated a key position.
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'Bob Marley's Three Little Birds' makes regional debut at Children's Theatre
A Bob Marley-infused "reggae fairy tale" makes its regional debut at Children's Theatre.
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Legacy of Gordon Parks lives on, in a photo show at St. Paul museum
Show weaves his work with that of an artist he influenced.
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Lighting designer Michael Wangen dies at 65
The self-taught lighting designer worked on productions in the Twin Cities and at playhouses across the country.
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Comic legend Alan Zweibel talks about collaborating with everyone from Gilda Radner to Larry David
Alan Zweibel talks about working with everyone from Gilda Radner to Larry David.
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Lloyd Webber turns Jesus up to 11
Review: No one expects subtlety from "Jesus Christ Superstar," and you're not going to get it.
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Regional premiere of Heather Raffo's 'Noura' paints surrealist picture at the Guthrie
Review: "Noura" dramatizes an immigrant's soul struggle.
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'Subtle' Minneapolis play takes a hard look at marriage and freedom
In "A Doll's House" sequel, Nora confronts what she left behind at the end of that play.
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Theater Latté Da offers up a poetic, powerful 'Bernarda Alba'
The regional premiere of "Bernarda Alba" is potent and poetic at Theater Latté Da.
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Think the Minneapolis skyline is unique? Think again – we have copycat buildings in our midst
Some of our landmark buildings aren't so unique. Others are ours alone.
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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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- Native American Art curator departs Minneapolis Institute of Art
- Walker Art Center debuts major exhibition by 1980s art star Keith Haring
- Prairie Island Indian Community requests the return of 'Mankato Hanging Rope'
- 'Blended Harmony' at History Theatre unearths tuneful history of the first Asians on Broadway
- What would be lost if Intermedia closes? Twin Cities artists reflect
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