Guthrie Theater

Midnight in Morocco

A Christmas Carol

Fall Arts Guide 2012

Blind beer tastings and yoga in a vineyard this Week in Food

Drinking has gotten more adventurous lately, or so this Week in Food has led us to believe. Whether you're doing yoga in a vineyard (and topping it with a glass of wine) or doing blind tastings of 28 specially chosen beers, it's almost like Outward Bound for folks who like to tipple.

Taste of the Nation HOTlist event fights childhood hunger

Nothing tastes better than dining out for a good cause. On Monday, June 25, some of the biggest names in local fine dining and craft cocktails are putting on a gala to benefit Share Our Strength. Just a few of the marquee names participating in the Taste of the Nation HOTlist event are La Belle Vie, ... More >>

Kitchen in the Market to host 'Seafood Throwdown' competition

​Two of the top seafood chefs in the city will be going head to head in a culinary battle to the finish. Both chefs are relatively new to their head toque positions. Jamie Malone is still only into her first (official) year as chef de cuisine at Tim McKee's Sea Change in the Guthrie Theater.  ... More >>

Valentine's Day: Celebrate on the cheap

​ With Valentine's Day falling on a Tuesday this year, we're guessing that many folks will procrastinate on putting together any special plans. But just because you elected to wait until Monday doesn't mean that you can't still plan something awesome for your sweetheart. Looking for ideas? We've p ... More >>

Julius Caesar

​ With Valentine's Day falling on a Tuesday this year, we're guessing that many folks will procrastinate on putting together any special plans. But just because you elected to wait until Monday doesn't mean that you can't still plan something awesome for your sweetheart. Looking for ideas? We've p ... More >>

'Julius Caesar' mostly works as modern-day thriller

​Updating Shakespeare for the modern day is always a dangerous proposition. It's doubly so for Julius Caesar, which is a 400-year-old look at an event from two millennia in the past. This co-production by the Acting Company and the Guthrie Theater works more often than not, even if the veneer of m ... More >>

Twin Cities' best plays of 2011

Hairspray, Doubt, On the Spectrum, and more

Harty Boys Save Christmas

Hairspray, Doubt, On the Spectrum, and more

Astronautalis, Lazlo Supreme, and MaLLy at the Guthrie Theater, 7/9/11

Photos by Erik HessAstronautalis​Dessa's Cadence Series with Astronautalis, Lazlo Supreme, and MaLLyJuly 9, 2011The Dowling Studio at the Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis"I'm so excited," Astronautalis beamed on Saturday night, during one of the many breaks in his set where he stopped playing music to ... More >>

Kindee Thai owners to open Kinsen in Uptown

A new Asian eatery comes to Uptown.​The owners of Kindee Thai Restaurant near the Guthrie Theater are opening a new spot called Kinsen this month on Uptown's Lagoon Avenue, just west of Bar Abilene (between Freemont and Girard). Kinsen's menu will have a broader reach than Kindee's, featuring ... More >>

Mill City Farmers' Market

A new Asian eatery comes to Uptown.​The owners of Kindee Thai Restaurant near the Guthrie Theater are opening a new spot called Kinsen this month on Uptown's Lagoon Avenue, just west of Bar Abilene (between Freemont and Girard). Kinsen's menu will have a broader reach than Kindee's, featuring ... More >>

Arms and the Man

A new Asian eatery comes to Uptown.​The owners of Kindee Thai Restaurant near the Guthrie Theater are opening a new spot called Kinsen this month on Uptown's Lagoon Avenue, just west of Bar Abilene (between Freemont and Girard). Kinsen's menu will have a broader reach than Kindee's, featuring ... More >>

Michele Bachmann skewered in musical 'Bachumanntary'

Another fine addition to the local theater scene.​We in the Twin Cities like to trumpet our national standing as a respected leader in the performing arts. Congresswoman Michele Bachmann likes to promote herself as a constitutional scholar and teabagger-in-chief. So it makes total cosmic sen ... More >>

Mos Def announces show at the Guthrie on August 23

​In an odd and possibly great announcement this morning, the Guthrie Theater's Wurtele Thrust Stage is presenting Mos Def on August 23rd. We say odd because of the obvious choice for such a show, First Ave's Mainroom, is the polar opposite of the Guthrie's intimate stage; the next show booked ther ... More >>

L'etoile to host Madras Plaid Summer Social at Om

L'etoile has partnered up with OM Restaurant (401 N. First St., Minneapolis) to celebrate summer style, and most of all the wondrous world of plaid. Madras plaid originated in the 1960s in India, so Om is the perfect locale to honor this playful pattern. Om will be serving its signature cont ... More >>

St. Anthony's Top 5 restaurants for food and fireworks

​Minneapolis's Red, White, and Boom fireworks take place this Sunday, July 4, at 10 p.m. over the Mississippi River right between St. Anthony Main, the Stone Arch Bridge, and the Guthrie Theater. Here are our suggestions for where to eat before the big display on the Northeast bank. (Also, re- ... More >>

Tour de Farm in Tangletown, Gastro non Grata in the Main Room: The Week in Food

​ There's a lot on tap this week: swig on Shakespeare, get in a food fight, and see our own Gastro non Grata at First Ave. Enjoy your Week in Food. Monday 6/21 A Midsummer Swig: sounds like our kind of culture. Enjoy music, local food, and drinks at CodeSpace while raising money for Tales of ... More >>

Storyhill, Dearling Physique, Chick Corea, and more shows to see this weekend

​ Still scrambling to plot out your weekend? Allow us to assist you. Here are our top picks for shows to catch tonight through Sunday (click on the links to be taken to the calendar listing for each event):

Darcy Pohland Day declared by R.T. Rybak in honor of the late WCCO reporter

There's also a memorial service for her today starting at 10 a.m. at the Guthrie Theater.

Dessa announces book reading at the Guthrie

The Year's Best Set Designs

10/27 Photo of the Day: Guthrie Endless Bridge

10/14 Photo of the Day

Dining with RNC delegates

"Mr. Speaker, the great state of Texas wants to know, where's a good place to eat around here?"

'9 Parts of Desire' depicts personal costs of Iraq conflict

The Guthrie's new offering creates an intense psychic space

Best of the Boards

The top shows from a memorable year in theater

Curtain Call

Let's bring back the year's best (and worst) performances for one more round of applause (and jeers)

Cue the Applause

Cue, the fine-dining restaurant in the new Guthrie, neatly combines high food ethics and high style

Unsolved mystery

Cue, the fine-dining restaurant in the new Guthrie, neatly combines high food ethics and high style

The Year in Theater

The Greeks, the geeks, the freaks, the dualistic representations of the Argentine distaff underclass--all the best of Twin Cities drama circa 2005

Life During Wartime

This harrowing outdoor drama is no Shakespeare in the park

Day-Scare Dropouts

Sometimes the right man for the job is a child

A World Without Tutus

Civic boosters are proud of the Twin Cities' theaters, orchestras, museums, and literary centers. so what happened to the ballet?

The Lists

Civic boosters are proud of the Twin Cities' theaters, orchestras, museums, and literary centers. so what happened to the ballet?

Roman Holiday

Civic boosters are proud of the Twin Cities' theaters, orchestras, museums, and literary centers. so what happened to the ballet?

Born in Flames

Civic boosters are proud of the Twin Cities' theaters, orchestras, museums, and literary centers. so what happened to the ballet?

The Lists

Civic boosters are proud of the Twin Cities' theaters, orchestras, museums, and literary centers. so what happened to the ballet?

The Nose Nobody Knows

Civic boosters are proud of the Twin Cities' theaters, orchestras, museums, and literary centers. so what happened to the ballet?

Digging in the Dirt

Civic boosters are proud of the Twin Cities' theaters, orchestras, museums, and literary centers. so what happened to the ballet?

First Comes Love

Civic boosters are proud of the Twin Cities' theaters, orchestras, museums, and literary centers. so what happened to the ballet?

Blues So Bad

Baby, I'm a Star: Lovette George in Thunder Knocking on the Door

Lesser Mores

I Killed My Father...Now Kiss Me!: Christy Mahon

Kate Sullivan's Top/Bottom Five for 1997

I Killed My Father...Now Kiss Me!: Christy Mahon

Holiday Roundup

Silent Night Fever's Martini & Olive.

Summer Stage

Dancing Queen: Julie Briskman Hall pirouettes in Kaufman and Hart's You Can't Take It With You.

A Dull House

Dancing Queen: Julie Briskman Hall pirouettes in Kaufman and Hart's You Can't Take It With You.

Quietly Riotous

Dancing Queen: Julie Briskman Hall pirouettes in Kaufman and Hart's You Can't Take It With You.