The Cowles Center: Minneapolis’s Home for Dance
Dance in Minnesota has an address: 528 Hennepin Avenue. The Cowles Center for Dance & the Performing Arts joined two historic theatres — the 1910...
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MacPhail Center for Music: Minneapolis’s Musical Living Room
The soaring glass building beside the Guthrie hums — literally. MacPhail Center for Music, founded in 1907 and now one of the largest community music...
The St. Paul Chamber Orchestra: Virtuosity at Human Scale
Thirty-four virtuosos, no conductor’s ego, and some of the most alive classical music in America: The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, founded in 1959, is the...
Minnesota Opera: New Works From the North Star State
Minnesota Opera has a claim few companies on Earth can match: it changed what American opera is. From the Ordway Center stage in St. Paul,...
Children’s Theatre Company: A Tony-Winning Stage for Young Hearts
The Children’s Theatre Company of Minneapolis makes a bold claim and backs it up: it is the finest theatre for young audiences in America —...
James J. Hill House: The Empire Builder’s St. Paul Mansion
Summit Avenue is America’s best-preserved Victorian boulevard, and its crown is the James J. Hill House — 36,000 square feet of Richardsonian Romanesque grandeur built...
Theater Latté Da: Where Musical Theatre Gets Reinvented
Musical theatre’s most exciting laboratory hides in Northeast Minneapolis. Theater Latté Da, resident at the historic Ritz Theater, has built a national reputation for reinventing...
Historic Fort Snelling: Where Minnesota’s Story Begins
At the bluff where the Mississippi and Minnesota rivers meet — Bdote, a place sacred to the Dakota for millennia — stands Fort Snelling, the...
Penumbra Theatre: St. Paul’s Beacon of Black Theatre
Founded in 1976 by Lou Bellamy in St. Paul’s Hallie Q. Brown Community Center, Penumbra Theatre became one of the most important Black theatres in...
Minnesota Transportation Museum: Climb Aboard History at the Roundhouse
The Jackson Street Roundhouse is one of the last working railroad roundhouses in America — and the Minnesota Transportation Museum makes it a playground of...
