
The board of the Minnesota Orchestra met Friday for three hours without taking public action on the futures of president and CEO Michael Henson and former Music Director Osmo Vanska. Read more →
The board of the Minnesota Orchestra met Friday for three hours without taking public action on the futures of president and CEO Michael Henson and former Music Director Osmo Vanska. Read more →
The Minneapolis resident, who will find out Sunday whether he wins an Oscar for his role in “Captain Phillips,” is up for a starring role in “The Place That Hits The Sun.” Read more →
This week, romantic show tunes and piano stylings, layers of portraits, and a gut wrenching play about a parent-teacher conference. (Want to be an Art Hound? Sign up!) Minnesota Museum of American Art curator Christina Chang found Anne Labovitz’s exhibition “Layers” to be a refreshing immersion in portraiture art. Christina admires Labovitz’s technique of layering Read more →
Have you seen Ten Thousand Things’ production of “Music Man?” What’s your review? Read more →
Penumbra Theatre’s production of “The Ballad of Emmett Till” has elicited strong reviews. Read more →
The Minneapolis St Paul International Film Festival released the names of eight of the more than 200 films going to be shown at the fest this year, which runs April 3-19. The full line up will be released early in March. “Club Sandwich” (Fernando Eimbcke, director; Mexico, 2013) A deadpan coming of age story set Read more →
Four Twin Cities theater companies announced a new production collaboration today, the like which may never have been seen before. “I know it’s not duplicated in the Twin Cities. I don’t know of this happening quite this way in any community,” said Richard Cook, artistic director of St. Paul’s Park Square Theatre. The idea is Read more →
Palestinian director Hany Abu-Assad’s “Omar” is a universal story that just happens to be set in his troubled homeland. Read more →
The Minnesota Opera announced its 2014-2015 season this afternoon with a star studded webcast live from the Opera Center in the Minneapolis Warehouse District. Read more →
This week the hounds are more than charmed by some lunchtime Japanese opera, some centuries old klezmer music, and some psychedelic folk that may put you in a dream state. Dorothy Marden believes that to really understand klezmer music, you need to go back to a time when klezmer was the thread that ran through Read more →