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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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This holiday season, Minnesota companies are partying like it's 2019
You can stay in your home as you age, but should you?
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Ambulance plight requires state, federal fixes
'The Golden Candidate': a cartoon special
Tale of two Mpls. pols shows how America has changed
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Review: Yikes! 'Disney's Aladdin' underwhelms at Minneapolis' Orpheum
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What 'Nutcracker' are you? Breaking down 5 classics and 3 funky ones
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Curtains to rise again at Park Square Theatre in St. Paul
Variety
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Children's Theatre Company stages minimalist, magical 'Hobbit'
Review: A new staging conjures a world of magic and light.
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Black playwrights command the stage in thrilling festival at Mixed Blood
Festival at Mixed Blood offers a trio of hyper-contemporary plays by black men.
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Guthrie Theater's inventive comedy 'Noises Off' offers escapist laughs aplenty
Guthrie's staging of the classic "Noises Off" offers a timely diversions from our troubles.
Politics
Why Minnesota could soon face a budget shortfall
St. Paul officials say Xcel Energy Center is showing its age — and they want state help to fix it up
2024 vote could bring electoral college distortions to the forefront
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Yuen: 'Ricky Lake' swims every day — 'sun, winds, snow or rain, light or dark'
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Review: Bob Dylan-infused 'Girl From the North Country' hits high notes, then stalls
Conor McPherson's production kicks off its 26-city tour at Minneapolis' Orpheum Theatre.
Review: 5 surprising things you learn in 'The Defeat of Jesse James' at History Theatre
The new Chan Poling-Jeffrey Hatcher musical is contemporary and historical at the same time.
Review: 'First Lady Suite' at Elision is a smashingly entertaining chamber musical
Four presidents' wives take center stage in a show that imagines what their lives were like.
Review: 'The Pajama Game' is a beautifully sung trip into the past of musicals
"Hey There" and "Steam Heat" are the hits in the old-fashioned show, set in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Review: A good night, indeed, with the sweet prince — 'Hamlet' lights up Guthrie stage
Director Joseph Haj and star Michael Braugher write a new chapter with Shakespeare's monumental tragedy.
Review: Off with their heads? 'Revolutionists' mines laughs during French reign of terror
Shelli Place's staging of the Lauren Gunderson dramedy is slyly, dryly funny.
Review: World premiere musical 'Again' is funny, tuneful and about cancer
Theater Mu presentation is partially inspired by playwright Katie Ka Vang's journey.
Review: Updated 'My Fair Lady' pushes you back while drawing you in
Is beautiful music enough to overlook a sexist throwback cad in the touring Broadway production at the Ordway?
Review: 'Diesel Heart' is more tell than show at History Theatre
The world premiere is a biographical drama about former St. Paul officer Melvin Carter Jr.
Review: Characters in '5' imagine the unimaginable
JuCoby Johnson's comedy/drama at the Jungle is a world premiere.
