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• Collective's original productions draw new crowds to theater
  Minneapolis-based Workhaus Collective is meeting the challenge theaters face in attracting younger, non-theatergoers.November 20, 2009
• New Shubert Center to finally break ground
  After 10 years of non-stop lobbying and fundraising, the Minneapolis group Artspace will finally break ground Thursday on the new Minnesota Shubert Center in downtown Minneapolis.November 18, 2009
• Former St. Paul speakeasy avoids demolition, for now
  Community members have prevented the planned demolition of a former speakeasy in St. Paul, a place where "pretty girl entertainers" mingled with mobsters during the heyday of the Roaring '20s.November 17, 2009
• Peace puppets get to the heart of theater's mission
  The story of a simple monk trying to promote peace during the Vietnam war might seem an unlikely subject for a puppet show. Yet the performers in "A Path Home" at the In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theater say in many ways their show gets to the very roots of what they do as an organization.November 4, 2009
• Joe Dowling returns to stage with Faith Healer
  Guthrie Theater artistic director Joe Dowling makes his American acting debut in a play he has directed in the past and by a playwright he knows well. Dowling talks about the challenge of both directing and acting in a play that has tested previous actors and directors.Midmorning, November 2, 2009
• 'The Walworth Farce' brings a darkly comic look at family life
  The Druid Theater, one of Ireland's best known companies is in the Twin Cities this week to present "The Walworth Farce," a twisted take on family life.October 22, 2009
• Former Theater de la Jeune Lune duo mounts new show
  A year after the collapse of Theater de la Jeune Lune, two of that company's central figures are returning together to a Twin Cities stage this week.October 20, 2009
• Penumbra Theater stages final Wilson work 'Radio Golf'
  St. Paul's Penumbra Theater is regarded as one of the country's foremost interpreters of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright August Wilson's work, making Penumbra's first staging of Wilson's last play, "Radio Golf," an event in the local theater scene.October 12, 2009
• Guthrie to present 'Laramie Project' epilogue
  The Guthrie Theater and several other theaters in Minnesota will take part in a worldwide reading of a new epilogue to "The Laramie Project," about the killing of gay college student Matthew Shepard in Wyoming.October 9, 2009
• Synth-pop duo Lookbook opens up to the '80s
  The shadow of the 1980s still looms over a lot of pop music these days and for some of us, it's a decade we'd like to forget, but for the Minneapolis synth-pop duo Lookbook, the '80s represent a musical goldmine.October 2, 2009
• Zandra Rhodes turns from clothes to opera
  If you have been in downtown St. Paul over the last few days and seen a diminutive older women with bright pink hair - well, you've just had a brush with an international fashion icon.September 25, 2009
• 'The Turnaround King' helps regional arts groups
  Michael Kaiser is president of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. He's on an "Arts in Crisis" tour of all 50 states and Puerto Rico. Listen to his Q&A with Minnesota arts groups.September 17, 2009
• 'La Boheme' performance couples music and drawings
  Opera fans are used to seeing subtitles at productions, but now music lovers in Duluth have the opportunity to experience a new wrinkle -- drawings.August 19, 2009
• Lou Bellamy remembers director, mentor Claude Purdy
  This week people from all over the country will gather in Greenville, N.C. for the National Black Theater Festival -- and they will no doubt be swapping tales of Claude Purdy.August 3, 2009
• The Syringa Tree returns to the Jungle Theater
  In "The Syringa Tree," actor Sarah Agnew portrays some 25 characters in a play that tells the story of two women growing up in South Africa under apartheid.July 29, 2009

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