Stage & Arts
One thousand friends and kin: Remembering the generous spirit of artist Jim Denomie
An appreciation of the late artist Jim Denomie, by one of those friends.
Variety
Our Friday best: Minnesota Dance Theatre turns 60, Dua Lipa, 'Waitress' and a fairy tale for adults
Critics' picks for entertainment in the week ahead.
Stage & Arts
Joe Dowling returns to the Guthrie to tackle Shakespeare's final play
"The Tempest" is the director's first show at the Minneapolis theater since he left in 2015.
Stage & Arts
Russian Ballet Theatre performs with the message: 'We Dance for Peace'
The multinational touring company will stage "Swan Lake" at the State Theatre on Friday.
Stage & Arts
Jim Denomie, beloved Ojibwe artist who tackled serious topics with humor, dies at 66
An "art dad" who championed emerging talents, he illuminated the uneasy relationship between Native cultures and mainstream society.
Stage & Arts
Luminary Arts Center will begin lighting up the North Loop this fall
The Minnesota Opera is renovating and rebranding the former Lab Theater while preserving it as a performance space.
Inspired
A stranger bought this Broadway star a ticket years ago when he couldn't afford it
Now Claybourne Elder is paying it forward, and was recently reunited with his benefactor.
Stage & Arts
'It could be me': Real-life tragedy intrudes on Children's Theatre play about police killings
The world premiere awakens fears and hopes with the cast of "Something Happened in Our Town" onstage and off.
Variety
Who's the biggest collector of Minnesota art? The answer may surprise you
It's the Minnesota Historical Society, which is presenting more than 100 artists in a rare exhibition.
Stage & Arts
Agatha Christie's 'Mousetrap' still snares audiences, 70 years later
Anoka theater tackles the timeless murder-mystery that's in the Guinness Book of Records.
Our Friday best: Return of 'The Godfather,' Khruangbin, Beach House and a papercut universe at American Swedish Institute
Critics' picks for entertainment in the week ahead.
Stage & Arts
'Pretty Woman' musical is enjoyable but the titular woman is all wrong
Review: Miscasting hampers the bouncy and entertaining musical playing at the Orpheum.
Stage & Arts
Mixed Blood Theatre taps inventive director and playwright as its next leader
Mark Valdez, who has been the theater's artist-in-residence twice, will succeed Jack Reuler.
Stage & Arts
How Minnesota's mother-daughter dance company Ragamala earned a spot on the national map
The Ramaswamys bring "Fires of Varanasi" to Northrop after premiering the show last year at the Kennedy Center.
Stage & Arts
What should be done with the 'Man of God' who hides a camera in a girls' bathroom?
Review: Theater Mu's bold thriller marks Katie Bradley's evocative directorial debut.
Stage & Arts
Church buys historic Mpls. building of former Tony-winning theater for $10 million
The property that once housed Theatre de la Jeune Lune has been sold to River Valley Church.
Variety
Minneapolis' iconic cherry returns from the Big Apple
Part of the "Spoonbridge and Cherry" sculpture had been in New York for nearly three months for painting.
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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
Most Read
- Review: Rob Schneider shows Mystic Lake crowd there's humor outside the liberal bubble
- Guthrie reports a record $3.8 million deficit
- Lotto-winning Tennessee ex-monk helped bring Guthrie's epic Shakespeare History Plays to the stage
- Firing at Mia sparks union accusations of toxic work environment
- Review: James Sewell Ballet's 'Pointed Humor' showcases physicality and precision
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