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Black Label Movement gets creepy with 'Morituri te Salutant'
REVIEW: Music and visual elements raise the stakes in the company's "Teamwork 2.0."
Grumble Theater asks patrons to see very first show 'solely as a woman'
A promising new company asks viewers to take a feminine perspective on its first show.
Old Log Theatre channels Rosemary Clooney with nostalgic jukebox musical
Old Log Theatre channels a 20th-century legend with a clumsy but tuneful jukebox musical.
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3 art shows to see before the State Fair takes over Minnesota
Art is hot at Kolman & Reeb Gallery, NE Sculpture Gallery Factory and Bockley Gallery.
Review: Artistry's 'Newsies' thrills as it leaps off the stage in Bloomington
Director Ben Bakken works the huge cast into an entertaining lather.
Review: Is Guthrie's Pulitzer Prize winner 'English' too subtle for its own good?
The play centers on interpersonal relations as Iranian students take a language class but is haunted by historic geopolitical ghosts.
Review: Dancers move with buoyancy and fluidity in 'Wave' at Southern Theater
Choreographer Alexandra Eady's work weaves together abstraction and clarity at the same time.
Review: Pop styles, spunk and sparkly outfits rule in Ordway's 'Six,' back for a zesty third time
The remix of history reclaims the herstories of the Tudor queens as channeled by pop princesses.
Review: Guthrie serves up macabre wit with summer sleeper musical 'Little Shop of Horrors'
The theater's first production of the 1982 show makes light, fun work of the bloodthirsty plant.
Review: Latino update of 'Romeo and Juliet' in Minneapolis thrills as 'Rent'-like musical
The collaboration between the Bach Society and Teatro del Pueblo feels vital as it resets the Bard's work in a Mexican border town.
Review: Cirque du Soleil's 'Bazzar' mixes pedestrian and dreamy acts in Bloomington
The mini-United Nations company of acrobats and aerialists draw oohs and aahs for their physical dexterity.
Review: Michael Jackson fandom, rejoice – 'MJ' musical at the Orpheum thrills
The Broadway tour deftly captures the superstar's music, moves and appeal.
Review: Ordinary, invisible worker is validated in Guthrie's gritty, poetic 'Skeleton Crew'
The cast did not miss a beat after an interruption caused a delay just three minutes before the play was to end at Friday's opening.