Stage & Arts
Minnesota Fringe Festival tries to prove that theater can thrive online
The festival was always about experimentation. Now, it's trying to prove that theater can survive online.
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Stage & Arts
Walker Art Center critiques itself in a new exhibit of works by women
Exhibit of art by women looks at inequality in the art world — and in the museum's own collection.
Music
Minnesota Opera plans event at St. Paul's CHS Field as it scales back its season
It canceled the five operas previously announced for 2020-21, replaced by a string of events that "prioritize the safety of audiences and artists."
Stage & Arts
Park Square Theatre's interactive mystery 'Riddle Puzzle Plot' premieres on Zoom
No one's sure what to call this hybrid of theater and the internet, but writer Jeffrey Hatcher hopes it's fun.
Movies
Minnesota's busy Steve Zahn has been in more movies than you realize. Here are 7 of his best.
The Minnesota high school theater star has gone on to become a showbiz veteran.
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.
Stage & Arts
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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Stage & Arts
New Starz TV series 'P-Valley' has its roots in Minneapolis theater
New series began as a play at Mixed Blood.
Stage & Arts
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."
Stage & Arts
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.
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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
- Shuttered Met Opera to lock out stagehands
- 300-year-old painting stolen by an American soldier during World War II returned to German museum
- Met's new 'Hamlet': To be or not to be true to the text
- Renée Fleming to portray Pat Nixon at Paris Opera in 2023
- Weather vanes: Exhibit looks at artworks with a purpose
- Broadway's 'Aladdin' goes dark for days as it battles virus
- High court to decide whether Nazi art case stays in US court
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