Mixed Blood Theatre: Radical Hospitality on the West Bank
In a converted firehouse in Cedar-Riverside, Mixed Blood Theatre has pursued one mission since 1976: theatre that tells the whole American story, in all its...
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Jungle Theater: Linden Hills’ Little Stage With Big Ambitions
In the storybook neighborhood of Linden Hills, a 150-seat theatre keeps winning the argument that intimate beats enormous. The Jungle Theater, founded in 1991 by...
Twin Cities Book Festival: Rain Taxi’s Big Day of Books
Each fall, the Minnesota State Fairgrounds trade pronto pups for paperbacks: the Twin Cities Book Festival, presented by the literary organization Rain Taxi since 2001,...
The Loft and Open Book: Minneapolis’s Literary Engine Room
Downtown’s Mill District hides America’s literary engine room. Open Book, a renovated warehouse on Washington Avenue, stacks three treasures under one roof: The Loft Literary...
In the Heart of the Beast: Puppets, Masks and the MayDay Parade
Since 1973, In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre has practiced a radical idea in South Minneapolis: art made by a community,...
Minnesota Fringe Festival: Eleven Days of Wild, Wonderful Theatre
Democracy, but make it theatre: the Minnesota Fringe Festival fills Minneapolis stages each summer with 100+ shows chosen by pure lottery — no curators, no...
Art-A-Whirl and the Northeast Arts District: America’s Biggest Art Crawl
Every May, Northeast Minneapolis — a grid of old warehouses, breweries and churches — becomes the largest open artist studio tour in the United States....
The Cedar Cultural Center: The World Plays on the West Bank
On a given week at The Cedar, you might hear Malian desert blues, Swedish folk fiddles, Somali oud masters and a Minneapolis indie band —...
The Dakota: Jazz, Dinner and Minneapolis Nights Done Right
Prince loved it. Legends from Ramsey Lewis to McCoy Tyner made it a tour essential. The Dakota, on Nicollet Mall in downtown Minneapolis, is one...
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...
