Stage & Arts
Review: History Theatre's 'A Unique Assignment' salutes a Minnesotan hero in a segregation riot
Harrison David Rivers' play shines light on Henry Gallagher, who was in charge of James Meredith's security at Ole Miss.
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Critics' picks for entertainment in the week ahead.
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Yuen: Spring came to Minnesota a while ago, but its official arrival won't be any less sweet
Got seasonal confusion? Talk to a gardener, a canary in the coalmine of climate change.
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Review: Five things that will keep kids engaged in CTC's 'Babble Lab'
Autumn Ness taps and isolates a battery of soupy sounds for this show about language development.
Stage & Arts
Review: Laughter is the real killer in 'Miz Martha Washington' at Mixed Blood
Backed by rap references and game show antics, James Ijames' satire is a riotous blast.
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'Hamilton' resident director to stage 'Frozen' in Children's Theatre Company's new season
The 2024-25 roster includes a South African circus and the return of "Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas."
Stage & Arts
6 Black art exhibitions in the Twin Cities highlight artists to know
From the Walker Art Center to the Minnesota African American History Museum and Gallery, Black history, culture and joy thrive.
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The 14 best things to do and see in the Twin Cities this week
Critics' picks for entertainment in the week ahead.
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Review: 10 reasons why 'Beautiful' at Chanhassen Dinner Theatres makes the earth move under your feet
Monet Sabel personalizes Carole King in an interpretation that connects with the singer-songwriter's soul.
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Twin Cities dance community presses for support ahead of Cowles Center going dark
At a town hall meeting, artists and administrators expressed their concerns and hopes.
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'Cabaret,' 'Lehman Trilogy,' Broadway star Patrick Page are part of the Guthrie's 2024-25 season
The roster also includes the 50th "Christmas Carol" plus shows by Pearl Cleage and Lloyd Suh.
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Ordway's 2024-25 season boasts 'Mermaid,' 'Mean Girls,' 'Evan Hansen' and 'Ain't Too Proud'
The Disney musical will take the holiday slot, running for the month of December.
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Where the rivers meet, a new exhibit offers fresh approach to Historic Fort Snelling
The exhibition "Many Voices, Many Stories, One Place" tells 10,000 years of the site's complicated history, shining light on under-represented stories
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Gallery: Visitors attend Fort Snelling exhibition "Many Voices, Many Stories, One Place"
A new exhibition at Historic Fort Snelling chronicles histories of Dakota and Ojibwe people, Japanese-Americans, immigrants, enslaved African American people, soldiers and fur traders in this part of Minnesota, where the Minnesota and Mississippi Rivers meet. Rather than starting with the building of Fort Snelling, the show goes back 10,000 years to the earliest days of this sacred land.
Stage & Arts
A 'Beautiful' daddy-daughter collab takes the stage in Chanhassen's Carole King musical
Michael Brindisi and Cat Brindisi-Darrow co-direct the show headlined by Monet Sabel, who played the legendary songwriter on the national tour.
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The 12 best things to do and see in the Twin Cities this week
Critics' picks for entertainment in the week ahead.
Local
Meet the Ordway boss working to keep the arts relevant and vital to the Twin Cities
Christopher Harrington said arts organizations must better connect with people.
Stage & Arts
Review: Red Eye's 'Vastnessess' captures life and death with emotion, TikTok trends and classical styles
Choreographer Valerie Oliveiro evokes her mother's passing and a baby's birth with longing and care.
Duluth
Indigenous theater company brings its feminist, story-weaving style to Minnesota
Spiderwoman Theater presents workshops, performs a modern take on Shakespeare with its original interwoven production of 'Misdemeanor Dream.'
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Review: Interrupted by snafu, 'Clue' gets back to murderous fun at Minneapolis' Orpheum Theatre
Actors took the hiccup as inspiration during the national tour launch.
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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
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- Broadway actor quits CTC's 'A Year With Frog and Toad' 2 days before opening night
- 'Blended Harmony' at History Theatre unearths tuneful history of the first Asians on Broadway
- 'A Year With Frog and Toad' closes a chapter at CTC
- Review: CTC's 'A Year With Frog and Toad' lands deftly without missing a step
- Italy halts loans to Minneapolis Institute of Art following dispute over 'Doryphoros' sculpture
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