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10:36 am
Feb. 10, 2012
Pritika Chowdhry returns from Pakistan
By Sheila Regan
Does art really matter? In the face of war, violence, repression, and imperialism, what can artists do to speak the truth and be influential? That's a question that has haunted Indian-born... More >>

Dressing Room

8:05 am
Feb. 10, 2012
Pre-Valentine's Day parties, Staraoke Karaoke: Freeloader Friday
By Jessica Armbruster
With Valentine's Day fast approaching, you may be wondering what you get your sweetie. This weekend features several great parties that should entertain as well as enable you to shop for the h... More >>

Dressing Room

10:25 am
Feb. 9, 2012
'New Comedy' features three pieces at the Lowry Lab
By Sheila Regan
In case you didn't know, Minneapolis has a city right next door to it that has tons of fun stuff to do. For Minneapolites who are driving instead of biking in the winter months, there really is... More >>

Dressing Room

9:09 am
Feb. 9, 2012
Tina Blondell: 100 Creatives
By Jessica Armbruster
Number 43: Tina Blondell City: Minneapolis Years spent living in MN: 15 There are no pop-culture icons featured in Tina Blondell's portraits. Instead, she chooses to  capture regular folk... More >>

Dressing Room

8:31 am
Feb. 9, 2012
Joe Minjares crashes back into acting at Mixed Blood
By Ed Huyck
Joe Minjares understands the issues at the heart of Crashing the Party, a world premiere comedy by Josh Tobeissen opening this weekend at Mixed Blood Theatre. Minjares, a longtime actor and re... More >>

Dressing Room

9:00 am
Feb. 8, 2012
'Slasher' offers thrills, some food for thought
By Ed Huyck
Opening with a crash of thunder and a blood-curdling scream, Urban Samurai's Slasher works to keep that intensity alive through its full 75 minutes. It's a task that's not completely met, but ... More >>

Dressing Room

8:03 am
Feb. 8, 2012
'Diana, A Celebration' honors the Princess of Wales
By Nicole Crosbie
Last Saturday, "Diana, A Celebration" opened at the Mall of America. The exhibit honors the life and legacy of the late Princess of Wales. Known as the "people's princess" and "the Queen of hear... More >>

Spotlight

12:00 am
Feb. 8, 2012
Dial M for Murder
By Ed Huyck
The Jungle returns to an early favorite, bringing the venerable stage thriller back for a third go. It's an oddly lifeless affair, with the... More >>

Dressing Room

2:44 pm
Feb. 7, 2012
Envision: Artopia Spring 2012 announced
By Jen Boyles
Envision: Artopia 2012 is upon us, and despite the wimpy winter we've had, it's still relieving to be talking spring already.Now in it's 10th season, the fashion-meets-arts showcase of local d... More >>

Dressing Room

12:00 pm
Feb. 7, 2012
Carl Flink of Black Label Movement: When dance informs science
By Sheila Regan
In Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal the 18th-century satirist famously suggested that poor children in Ireland be eaten, rather than become a burden to their parents and country. Nearly 300 ... More >>

Dressing Room

9:54 am
Feb. 7, 2012
William Hessian discusses his daily webcomic, 'King of the Pill'
By Loren Green
Minneapolis artist William Hessian can always find time for art. The St. Louis Park native has toured the country, taught during an annual residency in Jamestown, North Dakota, and masochistic... More >>

Dressing Room

8:07 am
Feb. 7, 2012
Victorians gone Wilde: Walking Shadow presents 'An Ideal Husband'
By Ed Huyck
Heidi Berg doesn't think her character, Mrs. Cheveley, in Walking Shadow Theatre Company's An Ideal Husband is particularly evil. It's all a matter of perspective."The most radical thing I wil... More >>

Dressing Room

1:00 pm
Feb. 6, 2012
Open Eye tackles 'Sorcerer's Apprentice'
By Ed Huyck
For his first full-length, all-new piece of puppetry theater in five years, Michael Sommers has gone back to the same well that fueled his last one. In 2007, Sommers opened Open Eye Figure The... More >>

Dressing Room

10:29 am
Feb. 6, 2012
Avoid the Grey: New inspiration breeds new direction
By Joan Erakit
Walking into the Grain Belt Brewery building in northeast Minneapolis on Saturday night felt a bit like entering a new club: There was a long line down the street, high heels everywhere, boom... More >>

Dressing Room

11:44 am
Feb. 3, 2012
'Making New Traditions' opens at All My Relations Gallery
By Sheila Regan
Since opening last year, All My Relations Gallery,  housed in the bright-yellow building on Franklin Avenue along the American Indian Cultural Corridor, has continually shown excellent wor... More >>

Dressing Room

8:45 am
Feb. 3, 2012
Martin Kihn on Don Cheadle, Marty Kaan, and 'Hou$e of Lie$'
By Patrick Strait
What exactly does a management consultant doThis is the driving question behind the new Showtime original television series Hou$e of Lie$, a dramedy about a team of management consultants takin... More >>

Dressing Room

8:09 am
Feb. 3, 2012
Superbowl parties, free whiskey and hot dogs: Freeloader Friday
By Jessica Armbruster
Looking for something to do that won't break the bank? Nomad World Pub will be Superbowl tailgating this weekend with a bocce tournament and music on Sunday. O'Gara's will be celebrating the re... More >>

Dressing Room

9:57 am
Feb. 2, 2012
Jungle, Boehlke, dial 'M' once again
By Ed Huyck
Bain Boehlke's first encounter with Dial M For Murder is more than a half century in the past. As a youth in Farmington, the young impresario had his own summer theater. One summer, he brought... More >>

Dressing Room

9:00 am
Feb. 2, 2012
'Werther': Liebe oder Tod?
By Ed Huyck
I'll be the first to admit that opera is outside my comfort zone. Though I've appreciated the form over the years, like the larger world of classical music it has largely remained an undiscove... More >>

Dressing Room

8:32 am
Feb. 2, 2012
'Not About Bombs' opens at Intermedia Arts
By Sheila Regan
In a stunning photograph by Tamara Abdul Hadi, titled My Window, seven female figures all in black veils stand in line to receive their monthly widow's pension. In Iraq, there are a million wi... More >>

Dressing Room

9:57 am
Feb. 1, 2012
'Slasher' looks at horror films and feminism, with laughs too
By Ed Huyck
Most playwrights are happy when any of their work is being presented onstage. So Allison Moore is over the moon right now with four different productions about to open. This includes two produ... More >>

Arts Features

  • End of the Rainbow at The Guthrie

    By Ed Huyck

    Like a proto-rock-star, Judy Garland became as famous for her offstage antics as for her singing and acting chops late in her life. Still beloved... More >>

  • Dial M for Murder

    By Ed Huyck

    The Jungle returns to an early favorite, bringing the venerable stage thriller back for a third go. It's an oddly lifeless affair, with the... More >>

  • Park Square's Ragtime tones it down, finds heart

    By Ed Huyck

    When Ragtime first premiered on Broadway in 1998, the producers tried to use spectacle to hide the deficiencies in the adaptation of E.L.... More >>

  • 1968: The Year That Rocked the World

    By Ed Huyck

    The History Theatre certainly doesn't lack ambition with its latest show, which tackles one of the most tumultuous years in recent history... More >>

  • Cat on a Hot Tin Roof at the Guthrie

    By Ed Huyck

    The setting of Tennessee Williams's Cat on a Hot Tin Roof may be a palatial bedroom, but those four walls trap a lot of steamy heat and secrets... More >>

  • You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown

    By Ed Huyck

    I grew up with Peanuts, from reading the daily strips to memorizing the dog-eared anthologies we had at home. I liked the humor and identified... More >>

  • The Lion King at the Orpheum

    By Ed Huyck

    The musical version of Disney's The Lion King came back to town last week to its original home at the Orpheum Theatre, with 15 years of hype... More >>

  • Dangerous Liaisons

    By Ed Huyck

    Stacia Rice is such a team player that she probably doesn't want to be the center of attention here, but she's been absent for more than a year... More >>

  • Three Sisters by Buoyant Theatre Collective

    By Ed Huyck

    It's hard to watch the plays of Anton Chekhov without thinking about the fate that was just around the corner for these often upper-class... More >>

  • Hans the Obscure!

    By Ed Huyck

    During his lifetime, Hans Christian Andersen wrote hundreds of stories. Some, like "The Little Mermaid" and "The Little Match Girl," are still in... More >>

  • Out There 2012 at the Walker

    By Ed Huyck

    The idea of the auteur in theater—where collaboration is the name of the game—may feel a bit off, but Philip Bither, the curator of... More >>

  • Twin Cities' best plays of 2011

    By Ed Huyck

    Looking back, it was a terrific year on local stages, with several new voices heard along the way and plenty of fresh examinations of classic... More >>

  • Artists of the Year 2011

    How fitting that one of the most arresting symbols of the Occupy movement—the V for Vendetta mask depicted on our cover—was derived... More >>

  • Ordway, Park Square show Cinderella, Soul of Gershwin

    By Ed Huyck

    How long does it take for The Soul of Gershwin: The Musical Journey of an American Klezmer to capture the audience? A handful of... More >>

  • Charley's Aunt at the Guthrie

    By Ed Huyck

    Not every farce needs to be as manic as Noise's Off to work, as the production of Charley's Aunt at the Guthrie Theater proves. The classic... More >>

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<i>End of the Rainbow</i> at The Guthrie End of the Rainbow at The Guthrie
By Ed Huyck

Like a proto-rock-star, Judy Garland became as famous for her offstage antics as for her singing and acting chops late in her life. Still beloved by fans, Garland ran through… More >>

Dial M for Murder Dial M for Murder
By Ed Huyck

The Jungle returns to an early favorite, bringing the venerable stage thriller back for a third go. It's an oddly lifeless affair, with the actors seemingly sleepwalking their way through… More >>

Park Square's <i>Ragtime</i> tones it down, finds heart Park Square's Ragtime tones it down, finds heart
By Ed Huyck

When Ragtime first premiered on Broadway in 1998, the producers tried to use spectacle to hide the deficiencies in the adaptation of E.L. Doctorow's novel. Audiences presumably would be so… More >>

<i>1968: The Year That Rocked the World</i> 1968: The Year That Rocked the World
By Ed Huyck

The History Theatre certainly doesn't lack ambition with its latest show, which tackles one of the most tumultuous years in recent history through the lens of seven playwrights. However, the… More >>

<i>Cat on a Hot Tin Roof</i> at the Guthrie Cat on a Hot Tin Roof at the Guthrie
By Ed Huyck

The setting of Tennessee Williams's Cat on a Hot Tin Roof may be a palatial bedroom, but those four walls trap a lot of steamy heat and secrets that crush… More >>

<i>You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown</i> You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown
By Ed Huyck

I grew up with Peanuts, from reading the daily strips to memorizing the dog-eared anthologies we had at home. I liked the humor and identified greatly with poor Charlie Brown… More >>

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