Eric RinghamThe Guthrie stages a fine production of a play that doesn’t age well. Read more →
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Euan KerrThree Mu Performing Arts actors took a searing examination of Chinese-American culture and presented it in Chinese restaurants in towns around Minnesota. It worked. Read more →
Joe Dowling has pumped a beloved classic full of life. Read more →
Chris RobertsSome delectable southern songcraft, a Chilean surrealist filmmaker’s return to the big screen and a Kabuki-style production of “12th Night,” all have the hounds buzzing this week. (Want to be an Art Hound? Sign up!) Soap Factory Executive Director Ben Heywood thinks we should suspend all relatively empty forms of pop culture consumption until we’ve Read more →
This week, a special blend of klezmer and classical, the kinship between the Yangtze and the Mississippi rivers, and Shakespeare in the Park…ing Ramp. Read more →
“It’s really about bringing international visionaries to the Twin Cities,” Performing Arts Curator Philip Bither said of the season he is announcing today. Read more →
This week, the emotional pull of puppetry in a Minneapolis garage, a revered Minnesota choreographer’s vision of hell, and the astonishing photographs of Vivian Maier. (Want to be an Art Hound? Sign up!) Minneapolis mosaicist Lisa Arnold explains why the photographs of Vivian Maier, a mid-20th century amateur artist whose voluminous body of work was Read more →
Jose James, The Shadow War, and celebrating a great children’s author Read more →
Carousel inspired carnivalesque characters and the artist who paints them, a rapture in which only artists leave the earth, and the beauty and power of an Arabic musical virtuoso. (Want to be an Art Hound? Sign up!) The music of oud and violin virtuoso Simon Shaheen is extremely arresting and moving to choreographer and dancer 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 →