Hennepin Center for the Arts

Ballet Works Project

Grand Opening Weekend: Among the Stars

Community Day Celebration

New Cowles Center to debut Cravings lobby bar

Cowles CenterEating opportunities at downtown's new dance and performance center. ​Years in the making, the long anticipated Cowles Center for Dance & the Performing Arts will have its grand opening this Saturday. The Hot Dish might not know anything about pirouettes or Baby Freezes, but we ... More >>

Freeloader Friday: Comedy and rock at 501, Jaws, and Lowertown's Concrete and Grass Festival

Get out there and have some fun, leave your wallet behind.

Groundbreaking Battle 2008

Surprise Party

After 15 years, James Sewell Ballet still thrives on the unexpected

B-Girl Be '07: schedule and links

Plato's Retreat

Got a few questions about love and human desire? Ask a philosophical nine-year-old.

A Graceful Progression

Jazzdance founder Buraczeski bids farewell to the cities

Cosmic Slop

Escape From Planet Earth

Two dancemakers choreograph the story of human alienation

Parting the Waters

Mathew Janczewski leads his troupe to fertile new ground

A World Without Tutus

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

Curtains?

The Shubert Theater takes one for the (new) team

Nothing But Net

Internet2 cheats geography for Shapiro & Smith Dance Troupe

Danse Macabre

After 22 Years of Supporting Artists, the Minnesota Dance Alliance Marches Into the Grave

"Don't Ever Say (EXPLETIVE DELETED) Onstage Again!"

Audiences storm the stage. Actors suffer gastrointestinal distress. Backstage confessions of theater gone terribly, terribly wrong.

Estrangers in the Night

Pavilion sends a former couple to their high school reunion; The Big Hoover breaches the dam of failed romances

If the Suit Fits

Outward Spiral examines a transgendered vaudevillian; the Jungle visits the wounded world of Tennessee Williams

Theater of the Absurd

When the Shubert inched down Hennepin Avenue a year ago, Minneapolis politicos promised a bright future for the historic theater. They didn't mention stingy legislators, taxpayer bailouts, or the specter of the wrecking ball.

In a Gadda Da Vida

Outward Spiral's queer Creation; Park Square's suffering sisters

Dramatis Personae

The Year in Theater

Good plays, bad plays, and the drama of real estate--plus the thespians talk back

Gross Indecency

The Jungle heaves, Frank Theatre shudders, Outward Spiral recoils

History Lessons

Rhombus Theatre's Lebensraum beckons Jews back to the Fatherland; Park Square's Taking Sides tries the morality of the devil's maestro

A Hero's Welcome

Ajax scours the body politic in search of a conscience; The Chairs discovers the seat of all meaninglessness

The Big Sleep

Spirits do Mr. Sandman's work at the Illusion Theater; the Minnesota Opera's Otello rages on

The Dream Team

Remain in Light

The Mountain Moves

Local cloggers the Girl Germs spread the traditional dancing of Appalachia to the prairies

Alternative Energy

Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars: Wynn Fricke's Borrowed Bones Dance Theatre

Noir by Northwest

Outward Spiral stages a play about ennui and killings in Canada

August Hit And Run

The Song Remains the Same

Wok on the mild side: Lotis Key and Soon-Tek Oh star in Theater Mu's tepid take on the American Dream

The Pope, Marx, and Houdini

From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs: Everett Dance Theatre performs Body of Work at the Walker Art Center

It's a Mall World

While no one was watching, Block E became Blocks D, E, and F.

Tutus: Take Two

My Dinner With Libby

All Tomorrow's Parties: Annelise Christ waits for company in the Hidden Theatre's Blue Window.

Men Behaving Badly

With Enter Achilles, London's DV8 Physical Theatre proves that you don't need to step fancy to walk like a man.

Out Laws

You Can Shoot Your Friends, You Can Shoot Your Nose, But You Can't Shoot Your Friend's Nose: Patrick Henning and Bob Beverage in Duel.

Dear God

Lipstick on His Collar: Ron Duffy and Nancy Gormley in Dear James.

Sliding into Extinction

Endangered Species

Education Arts

Deep Thoughts

Foreign Exchange

Brothers Falling

Mal Amore

Zenon Dance Company