Stage & Arts
People 're-wild' 'After the Fires' at Illusion Theater
A new, devised piece at the Illusion looks at a post-apocalyptic world.
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Minnesota Opera tackles refugee issue in a bright, bold work for children
REVIEW: "Belongings" gets its U.S. premiere at the Lab in Mpls.
Stage & Arts
8 movies and plays to get you in the mood for love this Valentine's Day
Whether you're paired up, poly-ed up or single, these plays and movies are a great way to prime an evening of romance.
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Actors have few degrees of separation in Guthrie's 'Twelfth Night'
Theatergoers may notice something very familiar about "Twelfth Night" at the Guthrie Theater: All 10 actors are locals.
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Exhibit honors photos of Minnesota's Edward S. Curtis
That 65 of his photographs found their way onto the walls of a narrow, brick building in Montgomery is a story of coincidence and curiosity.
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Penumbra Theatre's 'White Card' deals confidently in race and art
Claudia Rankine's heady play about race, art and commerce gets a palpable regional premiere.
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Touring musical brings the Caribbean to St. Paul for a couple of days
The Caribbean-set musical blends a fairy tale with calypso sounds.
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Theater Mu's regional premiere of 'Peerless' takes hard, comic look at college admissions
The regional premiere of "Peerless" takes a dark comic look at the high pressure world of college admissions.
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'Genius' Claudia Rankine shuffles a stacked deck with 'The White Card'
"Genius" playwright Claudia Rankine plumbs America's sensitive seams in "The White Card," making its regional premiere at Penumbra.
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'Island' choreographer talks about her creative process
As "Once on This Island" opens at the Ordway, Camille A. Brown discusses her craft and the creative process.
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'Skeleton Crew,' set in a failing factory, makes a plea for compassion
The four actors in the factory-set drama all give employee-of-the-month caliber performances.
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In the depths of winter, Twin Cities art scene screams for yellow
A new art history book — and a Minneapolis gallery exhibition — try to redeem the often-maligned color.
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Tropical-themed theater in the Twin Cities offers more than escape
Stage shows steeped in the humidity and magic of tropical worlds also teem with deeper issues.
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Giant exhibit at the U of M presents 500 years' worth of drawings
A giant exhibition at the U of M explores the malleable medium.
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Around the Region
- 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
- What Winnie the Pooh and Mickey Mouse can tell us about the public domain and remix culture
- A judge blocks the demolition of a groundbreaking Iowa art installation
- Demolition of groundbreaking Iowa art installation set to begin soon
- Shuttered Met Opera to lock out stagehands
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- Review: Artistry's 'Sound of Music' continues buoyant comeback for Bloomington playhouse
- Why does a Minnesota art dealer have a $9.85 million Bob Ross painting?
- Drama by 'Black Panther' star Danai Gurira explores faith and colonization
- Sculptor Zoran Mojsilov has rocked the Twin Cities for more than 40 years
- Jim Denomie, beloved Ojibwe artist who tackled serious topics with humor, dies at 66
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