Stage & Arts
Guthrie-commissioned play by Pulitzer winner will make its Broadway debut in 2021
Lynn Nottage comedy had its world premiere in Minneapolis last summer.
Stage & Arts
From the Black Death to the coronavirus, pandemics can also yield powerful art
What kind of art might come from the current crisis? Two Mia curators point to the lessons of history.
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Twin Cities museum lovers rejoice as Walker, Mia reopen: 'It's emotional to be back'
The Minneapolis Institute of Art and Walker Art Center reopen after four months of coronavirus closures.
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New Starz TV series 'P-Valley' has its roots in Minneapolis theater
New series began as a play at Mixed Blood.
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One of the first to return to live theater, Mankato Playhouse is selling tickets for July show
Mankato venue has a production of 'Forever Plaid' in the works.
Stage & Arts
Minnesota Museum of American Art fires its longtime director
In her decade-plus there, Kristin Makholm led the once-homeless museum into a landmark St. Paul venue.
Local
Stress making you scream? Join the club with weekly gathering at south Mpls. park
A theater artist and Macalester professor creates a ritual of release during COVID and George Floyd crucibles.
Stage & Arts
Activists want to keep George Floyd murals in communities that created them
After George Floyd's killing by police, hundreds made art on the plywood of boarded-up buildings. Where will they go now?
Stage & Arts
Children's Theatre will not reopen until March of next year
Live stage productions will relaunch with "Annie" and "Seedfolks."
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Minnesota museums envision a 'touchless' future as they reopen
As Twin Cities venues begin to reopen, they're rebooting the visitor experience.
Movies
'Hamilton,' taped in 2016 with the original cast, will stream on Disney+
A wider audience can finally view this thrilling work.
Movies
Now streaming in 'Hamilton,' the show's original stars have gone on to big things
You've seen them rise to stardom. Now you can finally watch its cast in the show where it happened.
Stage & Arts
Larger-than-life Soviet art marks the first reopening of a Twin Cities art museum
The Museum of Russian Art reopens with paintings from Soviet-era Ukraine.
Music
An entertaining podcast for those who may be discovering (or missing) opera
We don't have live opera now, but we do have "Aria Code."
Local
Minneapolis Institute of Art cuts staff in response to pandemic
Citing "economic uncertainty" due to the pandemic, the museum cut 39 jobs and reduced leaders' pay by 15%.
Inspired
Twin Cities improv troupe offers 'Phone a Friend' outreach to those feeling isolated
The idea occurred to writer and improviser Keren Gudeman during a jog around Lake of the Isles in Minneapolis.
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Ordway president and CEO to leave for Calif. job
Jamie Grant broadened the center's programming beyond Broadway.
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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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