Stage & Arts
COVID-19 briefly shuts down two Twin Cities musicals
Shows at Artistry and Chanhassen Dinner Theatres have temporarily closed down over COVID-19 concerns.
Our Friday Best: Dave Chappelle, Brandy Clark, 'Little Women,' flying pigs & more
Critics' picks for entertainment in the week ahead.
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When he's not onstage, Minnesota actor JoeNathan Thomas is a professional cowboy
For this 'Annie' actor, it's a hard jock life.
Stage & Arts
A flutist and dancers come together to claim their space in 'Touch Code'
Julie Johnson creates a score that is ominous and relaxing at the same time.
Stage & Arts
Surprising Minnesota connection inspires exhibit on famed cartoonist Rube Goldberg
A grandson of the political satirist and wacky inventor lives in St. Paul.
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Our Friday best: Elvis Costello, Halloween shenanigans, Humbird and Emanuel Ax
Critics' picks for entertainment in the week ahead.
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'Nazi Drawings' at Minneapolis Institute of Art reflect on Holocaust and nature of evil
A half-century after completion, Mauricio Lasansky's series feels as poignantly painful as ever.
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Movies
John Waters thinks Lizzo should play Divine on screen
The filmmaker returns to Minneapolis with his two-day one-man show.
Stage & Arts
Twin Cities Taps Festival taps into essence of music and rhythm
Review: Dazzling performances included celebrating John Coltrane and Afro-Cuban traditions.
Sports
New play honors Toni Stone, Rondo's trailblazing baseball great
From Rondo to professional baseball, the late Toni Stone persevered to pursue her passion.
Stage & Arts
4 Twin Cities art shows to help you keep that fall feeling
REVIEW: Indigenous futures, an inspiring U of M professor, Latinx identities and Middle East designers are all worth a look.
Stage & Arts
Twin Cities theaters want to scare the pants off you with ghosts and lopped-off arms
Christmas has long been an opportunity for theaters but now they're hopping on Halloween.
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Some say theater, others say theatre — what's the deal?
The former Minnesota Jewish Theatre Company has a new name and shifts to the ER camp.
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Multifaceted 'Every Brilliant Thing' exults in living
Jungle Theater's one-act play is interactive and performed with the house lights on.
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Noir-influenced 'Red Shoes' showcases dazzling work by Kimberly Richardson
Review: The fairy tale/detective story features the actor in multiple roles.
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As the Twin Cities theater world recalibrates, leadership shifts to groups
Diverse groups of artists are becoming leaders at Twin Cities theaters.
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Around the Region
- 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
- 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
Most Read
- Italy halts loans to Minneapolis Institute of Art following dispute over 'Doryphoros' sculpture
- Korean art at Minneapolis Institute of Art spans issues of gentrification, memory, identity
- 'A Year With Frog and Toad' closes a chapter at CTC
- What would be lost if Intermedia closes? Twin Cities artists reflect
- Hidden Gem: 'Sky Pesher' behind the Walker Art Center, offers an 'ever-changing portal'
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