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State of the Arts Blog

Walker reveals 2014-15 performance season

Walker reveals 2014-15 performance season

“It’s really about bringing international visionaries to the Twin Cities,” Performing Arts Curator Philip Bither said of the season he is announcing today.
by Euan Kerr

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Art Hounds: Hero’s Journey, Behind the Eye, and a sexy, sensual groove from Sloslylove

This week, the hounds rhapsodize about writers flooding the MIA, a revealing bio-play about a courageous photographer and her lust for life, and a DJ who hypnotizes with his beats. (Want to be an Art Hound? Sign up!) Playwright and Workhaus Collective co-founder Trista Baldwin felt a life force surge through her when she went to Read more →
by Chris Roberts

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MN Opera to co-produce ‘Cold Mountain’

The Minnesota Opera has announced it is co-commissioning and co-producing “Cold Mountain,” a new opera by Pulitzer Prize winner Jennifer Higdon. Gene Scheer is the librettist. “Cold Mountain’ will be based on the novel of the same name by Charles Frazier. Made into a film in 2003, it recounts the story of a Confederate soldier Read more →
by Marianne Combs

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History Theatre 2014-2015 season features new Garrison Keillor play

The History Theatre in St. Paul has announced its next season of plays, and they include a new one by the host of A Prairie Home Companion, Garrison Keillor. The season opens on Sept. 27 with the world premiere of Keillor’s first full-length play, “Radio Man,” which offers a glimpse of life working on the Read more →
by Marianne Combs

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Dispatches from the Minneapolis Comic Con ‘nerd prom’

Dispatches from the Minneapolis Comic Con ‘nerd prom’

Comparing the Wizard World Minneapolis Comic Con to San Diego’s Comic-Con International, which I attended last July, would be a little ridiculous. Whereas SDCC’s estimated 130,000 attendees took over downtown San Diego for the better part of a week, last weekend’s local event didn’t even take over the whole Minneapolis Convention Center. Any comparison would Read more →
by Jeff Alexander

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Penumbra reveals 2014-15 season with focus on women

Penumbra Theatre releases details of its next season today, revealing a focus on the struggles of women. The company is using the title “Womensong” “Experiences of gender are personal and political, complicated by race, class, sexuality, religion, and place. This season we examine these complex and powerful intersections,” said Co-Artistic Director Sarah Bellamy in a Read more →
by Euan Kerr

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Textile Center names interim executive director

Textile Center names interim executive director

The Textile Center has named Nancy J. Lee to serve as its interim executive director. Lee, who steps into her role immediately, will replace Executive Director Timothy Fleming, who led the Textile Center since June 2012. Lee has worked extensively as a consultant. She also has served as a vice president of finance and CFO Read more →
by Marianne Combs

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Art Hounds: Climbing Poetree, Hitchcock, and a young black man’s strange journey

Art Hounds: Climbing Poetree, Hitchcock, and a young black man’s strange journey

This week, Raves for a Brooklyn spoken word duo, the master of suspense on the big screen, and a musical about a young African American man’s search for identity. (Want to be an Art Hound? Sign up!) Documentarian Veronica Ochoa got chills down her spine when she went to see “Passing Strange” at Mixed Blood Theatre Read more →
by Chris Roberts

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