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Minnesota's community theaters adjust to the times, seek new audiences
There's a lot of theater outside the Twin Cities, and much of it is struggling.
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'Temptations' actor lists reasons to be proud of 'Ain't Too Proud'
Marcus Paul James plays Otis Williams in the touring Broadway musical.
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Free Shakespeare play in the park offers 'midcentury, private school vibe'
Classical Actors Ensemble is presenting "Love's Labor's Lost" in Twin Cities area parks.
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Our Friday best: TC Jazz Festival, Carly Rae Jepsen, Minn. R&B Music Experience and 'Q-Stage: New Works Festival 2022'
Critics' picks for entertainment in the week ahead.
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Intimate Van Gogh exhibition focused on his last years lands at Minneapolis Institute of Art
The traveling exhibition is a collaboration between the Dallas Museum of Art and the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.
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Winona theater company calls off controversial 'Taming of the Shrew'
William Shakespeare's play led to "difficult, even impossible" moments in rehearsals.
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Two years later, 'Emma' finally waltzes onto the Guthrie stage
The world-premiere comedy was on hold for two years but, amazingly, the entire company stayed together.
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Duniya dances to the beat of West African culture
The Twin Cities troupe wows with flips, complex rhythms and vibrant costumes.
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Review: Stand-up comedians offer comfort food in troubled times at Minneapolis festival
Maria Bamford and Erica Rhodes help define the state of comedy during a week of high-profile shows in Minneapolis.
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Cafesjian Art Trust Museum, a new space focused on glass art, to open in Shoreview
The other Cafesjian Art Museum is in Yerevan, Armenia.
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Review: Penumbra's mystical, experimental 'Spittin' Seeds' hits in the gut
The commissioned show feels like a layer cake of varied artistic visions.
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Review: Brave New Workshop's comeback show is determined to soothe troubled souls
Review: The troupe takes a gentler approach in its first show since the start of the pandemic and a change in owners.
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New Highpoint Center for Printmaking show focuses on artists from Oaxaca
Artist collective from Oaxaca builds connections with Minneapolis in new show.
Variety
Our Friday best: 'Spittin' Seeds,' Winstock, 'Plucked,' and Angela Two Stars
Critics' picks for entertainment in the week ahead.
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Review: Rock 'n' roll literally saves lives in Theater Mu's haunting 'Cambodian Rock Band'
The Lauren Yee play offers strong acting and first-rate music in its Minneapolis premiere.
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'Off-Kilter Cabaret' makes space for artists with disabilities
Off-Leash Area hopes to support people in the community with its new program.
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Review: Swinging, must-see musical 'Twelve Angry Men' makes a nearly flawless debut
Production by Minneapolis' Theater Latté Da is the first, but it won't be the last.
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Around the Region
- 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
- Shuttered Met Opera to lock out stagehands
Most Read
- Italy halts loans to Minneapolis Institute of Art following dispute over 'Doryphoros' sculpture
- Sculptor Zoran Mojsilov has rocked the Twin Cities for more than 40 years
- Review: Artistry's 'Sound of Music' continues buoyant comeback for Bloomington playhouse
- A Twyla Tharp world premiere is part of Northrop's 2024-25 dance season
- Facing 'Burnout,' singing oncologist Stuart Bloom put together a musical about it
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