Variety
For Minnesota comedy fans, the next 10 days will be a marathon of laughter
A day-by-day guide to the Minneapolis Comedy Festival and other coming attractions, including Chris Rock.
TV & Media
29 shows will compete in 26 categories in the 75th Tony Awards
A three-hour show will air live on CBS, and Paramount Plus will stream the one-hour preshow.
Stage & Arts
Facing the music: 'Cambodian Rock Band' drums up war crimes and deep family history
The show fulfills a Theater Mu and Jungle Theater collaboration long-delayed by the pandemic.
Stage & Arts
Northern Spark returns with its original all-nighter format
Since 2018, the festival has gone from two nights to two weeks, a departure from the original all-nighter event.
Our Friday best: Eric Church, New Kids on the Block, 'The Girls in the Band' and We Are Still Here
Critics' picks for entertainment in the week ahead.
Duluth
'Glensheen' musical opens in Duluth, just miles from the scene of the crime
Show about the murders at Congdon mansion is now playing at Duluth's NorShor Theatre.
Stage & Arts
Twin Cities artist gets $75K in seed money for a project rooted in plant life
Next summer Pramila Vasudevan will present "Concrete/Prairie" in three St. Paul parks.
Stage & Arts
'Merrily We Roll Along' kicks off Latté Da season this fall
"Next to Normal," "Hello, Dolly!" and new works also are on tap.
Stage & Arts
Premiering in Minneapolis, new musical 'Twelve Angry Men' seeks hope in our criminal justice system
Theater Latté Da production has been in the works for a decade.
Stage & Arts
Review: Odd duck 'Roommate' mixes laughs with pathos at Mixed Blood
Greta Oglesby and Alison Edwards try to deliver clarity in Jen Silverman's stylistically muddled play.
Variety
Minnesota musicians provided 'the glue' for Broadway's Tony-nominated 'Macbeth'
Duluth's Gaelynn Lea enlisted friends to create an original score for Shakespeare's play, starring Daniel Craig and Ruth Negga.
Stage & Arts
Open Eye's 'Hair Ball!' is a bright, fun, Bigfoot-themed musical
Canada-set comedy is performed on the green roof of the Bakken Museum.
Music
Dig if you will this Prince mural as downtown Minneapolis goes purple
The 100-foot-tall work by Miami artist Hiero Veiga was officially unveiled Thursday night.
Stage & Arts
With photographs and a move to rural Minnesota, artist Jovan C. Speller explores the protection of Black lives
Speller's "Nurturing, and Other Rituals of Protection" is on exhibition at Minneapolis Institute of Art through June 26.
Stage & Arts
4Ground Midwest Land Art Biennial showcases sustainable art for the land in Upper Midwest
Two-month-long, multi-state land art biennial raises awareness of environmental and historical issues.
Music
Our Friday best: Ta-coumba T. Aiken, Orville Peck, 'Hairball,' and Hector Olivera
Critics' picks for entertainment in the week ahead.
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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
- Native American Art curator departs Minneapolis Institute of Art
- Broadway actor quits CTC's 'A Year With Frog and Toad' 2 days before opening night
- Firing at Mia sparks union accusations of toxic work environment
- Sculptor Zoran Mojsilov has rocked the Twin Cities for more than 40 years
- Historic opera house could be small Minnesota town's artistic salvation
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