Ordway Center for the Performing Arts

Critics' Picks: Starkey, the Darkness, the Best Love Is Free, and more

Ordway Summer Dance: Country

Ordway Summer Dance: Salsa

Top 5 things to eat and drink at the Minnesota Opera

Minnesota OperaWhat would you eat/drink between opera acts?​The Minnesota Opera's production of La Traviata is in full swing. Everyone talks about pre- and post-theater dining options. But what choices are there mid-production? This week, the Hot Dish attended the featured opera of tragic lov ... More >>

Critics' Picks: Snoop, the Current's birthday party, and more

Minnesota OperaWhat would you eat/drink between opera acts?​The Minnesota Opera's production of La Traviata is in full swing. Everyone talks about pre- and post-theater dining options. But what choices are there mid-production? This week, the Hot Dish attended the featured opera of tragic lov ... More >>

Minnesota State Fair for cheap: Freeloader bonus

Image courtesy of the Minnesota State Fair​So, you paid the $8 to $11 entrance fee, and you saved money busing in rather than parking in a lot, but you're still worried about spending too much because you are on a fixed budget this year. No worries. There's plenty to do at the fair for little o ... More >>

Summer Dance Series: Reggae/World Beat

Image courtesy of the Minnesota State Fair​So, you paid the $8 to $11 entrance fee, and you saved money busing in rather than parking in a lot, but you're still worried about spending too much because you are on a fixed budget this year. No worries. There's plenty to do at the fair for little o ... More >>

Summer Dance Series: Ballroom

Image courtesy of the Minnesota State Fair​So, you paid the $8 to $11 entrance fee, and you saved money busing in rather than parking in a lot, but you're still worried about spending too much because you are on a fixed budget this year. No worries. There's plenty to do at the fair for little o ... More >>

Summer Dance Series: Rock 'n' Roll

Image courtesy of the Minnesota State Fair​So, you paid the $8 to $11 entrance fee, and you saved money busing in rather than parking in a lot, but you're still worried about spending too much because you are on a fixed budget this year. No worries. There's plenty to do at the fair for little o ... More >>

Summer Dance Series: Cajun/Country

Image courtesy of the Minnesota State Fair​So, you paid the $8 to $11 entrance fee, and you saved money busing in rather than parking in a lot, but you're still worried about spending too much because you are on a fixed budget this year. No worries. There's plenty to do at the fair for little o ... More >>

Summer Dance Series: Disco

Image courtesy of the Minnesota State Fair​So, you paid the $8 to $11 entrance fee, and you saved money busing in rather than parking in a lot, but you're still worried about spending too much because you are on a fixed budget this year. No worries. There's plenty to do at the fair for little o ... More >>

Summer Dance Series: Tango

Image courtesy of the Minnesota State Fair​So, you paid the $8 to $11 entrance fee, and you saved money busing in rather than parking in a lot, but you're still worried about spending too much because you are on a fixed budget this year. No worries. There's plenty to do at the fair for little o ... More >>

Swing Kids, Dirty Dancing, Planet B-Boy: The best dance movies of all time

Courtesy Dancing With the StarsD-list celebrities with A-list moves​It's been a month since the season finale of Dancing With the Stars, but The Ordway Center for the Performing Arts is keeping the love alive with their summer dance series. Today Twin Cities twinkletoes will be downtown cuttin ... More >>

Summer Dance Series: Swing

Courtesy Dancing With the StarsD-list celebrities with A-list moves​It's been a month since the season finale of Dancing With the Stars, but The Ordway Center for the Performing Arts is keeping the love alive with their summer dance series. Today Twin Cities twinkletoes will be downtown cuttin ... More >>

Summer Dance Series: Salsa

Courtesy Dancing With the StarsD-list celebrities with A-list moves​It's been a month since the season finale of Dancing With the Stars, but The Ordway Center for the Performing Arts is keeping the love alive with their summer dance series. Today Twin Cities twinkletoes will be downtown cuttin ... More >>

Grand Old Day, the Walker's Open Field: Freeloader Friday

​(Pictured: Last year's MOSAIC street fest)This weekend we have a party on the Walker lawn, a new music venue in Uptown, and two free street fests for kids.

2010 Flint Hills International Children's Festival

​(Pictured: Last year's MOSAIC street fest)This weekend we have a party on the Walker lawn, a new music venue in Uptown, and two free street fests for kids.

Freeloader Friday: Trivia Mafia, Art Shanties, and wedding cake

TGIF: Thank god it's free.

The Hills Are Alive

But the Ordway's 'Sound of Music,' not so much

Celebrate American (and Minnesotan) song Tuesday

But the Ordway's 'Sound of Music,' not so much

Mayoral Picks: St. Paul Mayor Randy Kelly

But the Ordway's 'Sound of Music,' not so much

Beach, Beach, Beach

But the Ordway's 'Sound of Music,' not so much

The Year in Theater

The best and worst of 150 nights spent in a dark room. Plus: Dramatic hypotheses, and thespians speak out.

I Hear Mid-America Singing

The season's first snowfall brings out the high culture in all of us

Song and Dance

Crime pays in The Gangster Musical; romance founders in Adventures in Love