TV & Media
Twin Cities-raised comic Nick Swardson will perform at Mystic Lake Casino
Member of Adam Sandler's Rat Pack will headline two shows in June.
Stage & Arts
For the first time in 70 years, Nazi propaganda posters on display at St. Olaf museum
The exhibit deals with the ethical questions arising from conserving these wartime artifacts.
Variety
Our Friday best: 'Bachelor Live,' Clairo, 'Swan Lake,' Sparks and 'Nurturing' at Mia
Critics' picks for entertainment in the week ahead.
St. Paul
St. Paul launches $4.5M tourism recovery grant program
The city is tapping into its federal pandemic relief.
Stage & Arts
Review: 'Hadestown' takes an alluring and melodic journey to the underworld
If hell is about gorgeous music and terrific performances, we'll take it.
Stage & Arts
James Sewell Ballet's 'New Works' reflects the power of expression
Review: Haunting music and whimsical sounds accompanied the creative movements.
Stage & Arts
How does a play humanize an icon?
With "Thurgood" at Penumbra and "Parks" at History Theatre, two actors face big challenges this month.
Stage & Arts
Penumbra's 'Thurgood' does Marshall plenty of justice
Review: The one-man show reunites longtime actor Lester Purry and director Lou Bellamy.
Stage & Arts
Some Twin Cities venues drop COVID protocols, others don't
As restaurants, sports venues and municipalities relax their pandemic protocols against a backdrop of declining COVID-19 cases, the decisions about keeping or tweaking health safety practices often involve multiple and sometimes complex stakeholders operating in a fluid, uncertain environment.
Stage & Arts
Minnesota dancer helped kick 'Hadestown' into high gear
Associate choreographer Katie Rose McLaughlin credits her dance and theater experience to local teachers.
Variety
Our Friday best: 'Octonauts' at Mall of America, Billie Eilish, 'Orlando,' Mitski & more
Critics' picks for entertainment in the week ahead.
Variety
Beaux Arts style plays starring role on HBO Max series 'The Gilded Age'
"What surroundings, Mrs. Russell. We could be at Tsarskoye Selo," exclaims Nathan Lane's snooty Ward McAllister at his first glance of her opulent Fifth Avenue mansion on "The Gilded Age."
Stage & Arts
Is this a Banksy prank? No, the street artist is featured in a big show coming to Minneapolis
The unauthorized exhibit, opening May 12, was culled from private collections.
Music
Stage & Arts
'Something Happened in Our Town' is a valiant attempt to address kids' fears
It alternates between a school and two homes before and after a Black man is killed by a white officer.
Stage & Arts
Guthrie Theater's 'Tempest' finds the party in Shakespeare's classic
It features a magnificent Regina Marie Williams, weighing vengeance against compassion.
Stage & Arts
Twin Cities Ballet adds layers of depth to Pink Floyd's 'Wall'
The rock ballet will be performed to live music by tribute band Momentary Lapse of Floyd.
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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
Most Read
- Walker Art Center debuts major exhibition by 1980s art star Keith Haring
- Broadway actor quits CTC's 'A Year With Frog and Toad' 2 days before opening night
- Review: CTC's 'A Year With Frog and Toad' doesn't miss a step despite actor's departure
- Italy halts loans to Minneapolis Institute of Art following dispute over 'Doryphoros' sculpture
- Historic opera house could be small Minnesota town's artistic salvation
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