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Minneapolis comic Mary Mack gets another shot at fame with animated series
Minnesota comic gets an out-of-this-world opportunity from "Rick and Morty" veterans.
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How Minnesota artists are staying creative and beating the coronavirus blues
From connecting via Instagram Live to fine-tuning drawing skills, artists are being forced to get more creative.
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After his wife suffered a stroke, a Twin Cities playwright rewrote his definition of partnership
Twin Cities playwright became a caregiver to the woman who had been his collaborator.
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Minnesota Landscape Arboretum will open Friday to vehicle traffic
Visitors will be able to experience thousands of spring blooms — from a distance.
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Minnesota cartoonist for Mad Magazine keeps busy with 'Coronacatures'
Burnsville-based Tom Richmond has parodied "Mad Men," drawn for Marvel and done caricatures at Valleyfair. With Comic-Cons canceled, he's inviting fans to draw with him on social media.
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Art dealer John Driscoll, who owned N.Y. gallery but kept Minnesota ties, dies at 70
He died April 10 in Putnam County, New York, due to complications from COVID-19.
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Trapped by COVID-19 outbreak, Minneapolis artist in China makes art for his Minnesota home
Still in China, Peng Wu reflects on karma and the coronavirus in projects for his Minnesota home.
Music
Broadway stars celebrate Stephen Sondheim's 90th birthday with a performance for the ages
An all-star web tribute to Broadway's greatest living composer is worth staying in place for.
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Minnesota's dance community needs to confront sexual consent, ex-TU Dance dancers say
"We don't have a practice of consent," said one of five former dancers. "There's not a very clear line of what's OK and what's not OK."
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A salute to Stephen Sondheim, the Shakespeare of musical theater
At 90, Stephen Sondheim deserves wider applause for his work — one of American music's crowning achievements.
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Minnesota Fringe Festival canceled in face of coronavirus pandemic
The future of the Upper Midwest's largest performing arts event is in doubt because of the pandemic.
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Streaming the play 'Booth's Ghost' will benefit closed Twin Cities' theaters
Streaming performances of the history-based play "Booth's Ghost" will benefit local theaters.
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Jungle Theater artistic director leaving for New Jersey theater that generates Broadway hits
As Sarah Rasmussen departs, actor/director Christina Baldwin steps in.
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'People are looking for joy': TV musicals like 'Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist' are trending
Now Hollywood is betting that TV audiences are ready to change their tune.
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Minnesota billboards respond to coronavirus crisis with artist-made messages of hope and thanks
Hennepin Theatre Trust and Clear Channel enlisted Minnesota artists.
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Playwrights' Center's online readings may reveal a piece of the future for theater
Online plays suggest new, more accessible possibilities for the Playwrights' Center.
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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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