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Critics' picks: The 10 best things to do and see in the Twin Cities this week
Critics' picks for entertainment in the week ahead.
Stage & Arts
'10,000 Dreams' at Northrop seeks to celebrate Asian choreography and end stereotypes
The program, co-curated by Phil Chan, features Washington Ballet, BalletMet and Oakland Ballet Company.
Variety
Guthrie's epic 12-hour Shakespeare marathon has 3 plays, 3 kings, 25 actors
Joseph Haj's vision for the History Plays taps 25 actors to tackle three dramas about the lust for power that eerily resonates with today's politics.
Music
6 cool things in music this week include Waxahatchee, Peter Frampton and 'The Lion King'
Shoutouts, too, to Sierra Ferrell, LA LOM and Béla Fleck.
Video
Behind the scenes of the Guthrie Theater's 12-hour Shakespeare marathon performance
Guthrie artistic director Joseph Haj, cast member Tyler Michaels King and props head Karin Rabe talk about prepping for this extreme artistic feat.
Stage & Arts
Ten Thousand Things Theater's artistic director to step down
Marcela Lorca guided the company's transition from its founder and through the pandemic and social justice upwelling.
Variety
Tickets go on sale this week for The High Kings, Koe Wetzel, The Black Keys and Over the Rhine.
Other shows include Sheng Wang, Twenty One Pilots, Dashboard Confessional and more.
Stage & Arts
New Children's Theatre managing director got her start in its basement
Wisconsin native Jill A. Anderson comes to Minneapolis via Syracuse, N.Y.
Stage & Arts
Ballet Co.Laboratory presents a steamy and stormy 'Midsummer Night's Dream'
Christian Warner's choreography deconstructs gender roles and questions social structures.
Variety
The 14 best things to do and see in the Twin Cities this week
Critics' picks for entertainment in the week ahead.
Stage & Arts
Review: Meme-ready 'Lion King' returns with thunderous family saga to Minneapolis
"Any story worth telling is worth telling twice," says medicine woman Rafiki. No lie there.
Stage & Arts
Review: Theater Latte Da's 'Color Purple' marries brutality with artistry
Nubia Monks and Angela Wildflower shine in an elegant production slated to transfer to New York.
Stage & Arts
From Minnesota to Broadway: Here are 7 shows that launched in the land of 10,000 lights
The Twin Cities also has been a jumping-off point for noted national tours.
Obituaries
Richard Serra, who recast sculpture on a massive scale, dies at 85
Many people in the art world urged Serra to stop making sculpture after a rigger was crushed to death in 1975 when one plate of a piece being installed at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis accidentally came loose.
Stage & Arts
'The Lion King' roars back to its first Pride Rock at Minneapolis' Orpheum Theatre
Hear from some of the Minnesotans and other artists present at the creation of the Julie Taymor-led juggernaut that's become the biggest-selling show in Broadway history.
Variety
The 12 best things to do and see in the Twin Cities this week
Critics' picks for entertainment in the week ahead.
Variety
Looking for something fun this spring? 70 movies, concerts, exhibits and more
The season promises noteworthy concerts, blockbuster movies, curious oddities, world dance premieres and inspirational artworks.
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.
Variety
The 12 best things to do and see in the Twin Cities this week
Critics' picks for entertainment in the week ahead.
Variety
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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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
- Repatriated South African apartheid-era artworks on display to celebrate 30 years of democracy
- 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
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- 6 ways to make your own art at this year's Art-A-Whirl
- 'MJ the Musical' offers a snapshot of Michael Jackson at top of his reign as King of Pop
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