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Dressing Room
12:15 pm
May. 17, 2013
Minneapolis Art News
Best of Dressing Room: May 13-17 Folks in the Twin Cities are always up to something exciting. Here are some of Dressing Room's top stories from last week:-- Mother Nature is pretty weird. Last weekend, ice was doing incredibly... More >>
Dressing Room
10:59 am
May. 17, 2013
Minneapolis Art News
Walker Art Center announces its 2013-14 performing arts season If one thing is guaranteed each year, it's that the Walker Art Center will bring an eclectic and challenging variety of performances to its space. This morning, the modern-art museum announced... More >>
Dressing Room
10:21 am
May. 17, 2013
Minneapolis Art News
Top life lessons learned from The Sandlot Whether you love or hate baseball, summer, or growing up, one thing goes without saying: The Sandlot is one of the greatest movies ever made.The coming-of-age tale about a group of young bros play... More >>
Dressing Room
10:02 am
May. 17, 2013
Minneapolis Art News
The 12 best things about gay marriage in Minnesota On May 13, 2013, Minnesota became the 12th state to legalize same-sex marriage, and we couldn't be prouder of the people of Minnesota who helped make this historic day possible. To celebrate this... More >>
Dressing Room
7:53 am
May. 17, 2013
Minneapolis Art News
Puppies, yoga, Como Ave. Jug Band: Freeloader Friday Thanks to Art-A-Whirl, there are tons of gallery happenings this weekend. But there are also many other things to do, including a Hmong storytelling/film fest, a handful of street festivals, o... More >>
Dressing Room
11:26 am
May. 16, 2013
Minneapolis Art News
Star Trek: A film-by-film primer In a sci-fi scene overrun with pessimistic -- often apocalyptic -- visions of humanity's future, Star Trek has illuminated the dystopic darkness for almost 50 years.Created by Gene Roddenberry, ... More >>
Dressing Room
10:13 am
May. 16, 2013
Minneapolis Art News
Art-A-Whirl: 7 things not to be missed It's that time of year when northeast Minneapolis goes nuts with art, music, and activities as studios and buildings open their doors. There's always fun stuff to see and do at Art-A-Whirl, ... More >>
Dressing Room
9:14 am
May. 16, 2013
Minneapolis Art News
Elevator Repair Service gets contemporary in latest work For its latest project, experimental theater company Elevator Repair Service chose to do something that is pretty standard for most ensembles."We wanted to shake things up and push our boundarie... More >>
Dressing Room
1:03 pm
May. 15, 2013
Minneapolis Art News
Retrorama's Sarah M. Holm: "I make clothing for tough cookies who relish in their feminism." This Friday, RetroRama is once again at the Minnesota History Center for a night of fashion, music, games, drinks, and vintage fun. The highlight of the evening is a runway show featuring five ... More >>
Dressing Room
7:57 am
May. 15, 2013
Minneapolis Art News
Alice in Wonderland: Whimsy on top of whimsy You usually know what you're going to get with a production of Alice in Wonderland: a young girl, a late rabbit, and lots of imagery that would fit in well on a Syd-Barrett-era Pink Floyd album.... More >>
Theater
12:00 am
May. 15, 2013
Minneapolis Art News
An Iliad captures the classic tale An Iliad opens with the quiet before the storm. It's clear something is up once you arrive on the ninth floor of the Guthrie Theater. The bay... More >>
Dressing Room
12:02 pm
May. 14, 2013
Minneapolis Art News
Top 10 museums in the Twin Cities May is Minnesota Museum month. This Saturday, museums will additionally be celebrating International Museum Day. So with those two things in mind there's no better time than now to check out all t... More >>
Dressing Room
10:31 am
May. 13, 2013
Minneapolis Art News
Arrow's Mike Basham: "Men in this city don't usually embrace enough of the different looks." Tucked into the trendiest part of the North Loop, spitting distance from Bachelor Farmer in a space that once housed competitor shop Martin Patrick 3, Arrow's sparsely decorated interior featu... More >>
Dressing Room
10:00 am
May. 13, 2013
Minneapolis Art News
Weird ice strikes again in Minnesota [more trippy videos] Although it is officially spring, Minnesota continues to have record-breaking cold temps this season. This situation has led to some incredibly strange thaw situations. This weekend's strong wind... More >>
Dressing Room
12:16 pm
May. 10, 2013
Minneapolis Art News
Best of Dressing Room: May 6-10 Folks in the Twin Cities are always up to something exciting. Here are some of Dressing Room's top stories from last week:-- Parks and Recreation writer Joe Mande is at Acme this weekend.-- Eve ... More >>
Dressing Room
11:00 am
May. 10, 2013
Minneapolis Art News
Professor Blastoff's David Huntsberger on the tour: "We were going to use a Winnebago, but we ended up getting a mini-van instead." Over the past year, podcast hosts have become almost pseudo-rock stars. They tour the country, draw in hundreds of fans to their live shows, and pull impressive guests in every town they visit. B... More >>
Dressing Room
10:51 am
May. 10, 2013
Minneapolis Art News
Director Josh Cragun on Tesla's predictions: "The dude was talking about the iPhone." Nikola Tesla, the oft-forgotten inventor who died impoverished in 1943, has been getting a bit of attention as of late with posthumous celebrations of his contributions to science, and his eeril... More >>
Dressing Room
9:48 am
May. 10, 2013
Minneapolis Art News
Lizz Winstead celebrates her 30th anniversary in comedy Saturday One night in 1983, Lizz Winstead was watching The Tonight Show with a friend. After cracking up over George Carlin, the friend turned to Winstead and suggested that she might be good at comedy... More >>
Dressing Room
8:11 am
May. 10, 2013
Minneapolis Art News
Craftstravaganza, "Kitsch," SooVAC: Freeloader Friday This edition of Freeloader Friday features plenty of last-minute ideas for Mother's Day, a fun bike ride, daylong music shows, and a surprising number of rock shows on Sunday. Come take a look a... More >>
Dressing Room
11:01 am
May. 9, 2013
Minneapolis Art News
Scavenging the cinematic wastelands with Trailer Trash Calling Chris Grap a movie fan would be a gross understatement. A programmer specializing in non-mainstream films and event screenings at the Theatres at the Mall of America, Grap has been fixat... More >>
Dressing Room
10:24 am
May. 9, 2013
Minneapolis Art News
An Iliad: War goes on, and on, and on Homer first wrote about the events in The Iliad nearly 3,000 years ago. Lisa Peterson and Denis O'Hare's An Iliad shows us that little has changed in the interceding centuries.Stephen Yoakam, un... More >>

Arts Features

  • An Iliad opens with the quiet before the storm. It's clear something is up once you arrive on the ninth floor of the Guthrie Theater. The bay... More >>

  • Tennessee Williams's plays are rich concoctions that can easily go to your head like a liqueur — sweet, easy to drink in, and able to make... More >>

  • You can get a feel for how a show has gone by the debris left on stage at the end. What do we have following Out of the Pan into the Fire, the... More >>

  • Theatrical thrills come in many packages, and there is something particularly compelling when limited resources meet boundless imagination. With... More >>

  • In 1895, Oscar Wilde was charged with committing "gross indecencies" — i.e., he was gay — but it was his art and personality that... More >>

  • There's an amazing 80- to 90-minute show lurking in the heart of Nice Fish, the world premiere collaboration between Duluth poet Louis Jenkins... More >>

  • In the seconds between the darkness at the end of Misterman Saturday evening and the return of light for the curtain call, there was an... More >>

  • Ira Levin may be best known for his scary novels — from Rosemary's Baby to The Stepford Wives to The Boys From Brazil — but he also... More >>

  • Falling uneasily between a serious drama and a high school history report, Steven Dietz's Jackie and Me, based on one of the novels in Don... More >>

  • In a musical about secrets, The Light in the Piazza has a doozy right at its core. It's easy to think that the show, crafted by Craig Lucas and... More >>

  • After nearly a year off local stages — its last production was Amen Corner at the Guthrie last spring — the Penumbra Theatre Company... More >>

  • Near the end of Katie Ka Vang's one-woman show, she offers up a detail that is an apt metaphor for her world-premiere piece. Vang is discussing... More >>

  • Take a look at more of Matt Blum's photos for The Nu Project...(NSFW) Near dusk on a crisp March day, Matt Blum arrives at an apartment... More >>

  • Mu Performing Arts' Rick Shiomi comes full circle with this production at the Dowling Studio. Thirty years ago, Yellow Fever was a breakthrough... More >>

  • The Taming of the Shrew is considered one of Shakespeare's "problem" plays, especially for audiences who don't believe a woman should be... More >>

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<i>An Iliad</i> captures the classic tale An Iliad captures the classic tale

An Iliad opens with the quiet before the storm. It's clear something is up once you arrive on the ninth floor of the Guthrie Theater. The bay doors to the… More >>

<i>A Streetcar Named Desire</i> drives at the heart A Streetcar Named Desire drives at the heart

Tennessee Williams's plays are rich concoctions that can easily go to your head like a liqueur — sweet, easy to drink in, and able to make you dizzy if you… More >>

<i>Out of the Pan into the Fire</i> Out of the Pan into the Fire

You can get a feel for how a show has gone by the debris left on stage at the end. What do we have following Out of the Pan into… More >>

<i>Treasure Island</i> is an adventure Treasure Island is an adventure

Theatrical thrills come in many packages, and there is something particularly compelling when limited resources meet boundless imagination. With Live Action Set, Noah Bremer has crafted engaging theater mainly out… More >>

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