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Music, Theater, and Performing Arts

The stunning, Jean Nouvel-designed exterior of the Guthrie Theater / Credit: MCE

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A Performing Arts Primer

How we became the No. 1 state in public arts spending 

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Broadway What? West End Who?

You'll never run out of plays and musicals to see here

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Minnesota's Best Local Musicians & Venues

Where to go and what to see

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Why Comedians Can't Get Enough of Minnesota

Quoth Nate Bargatze: "You don't have to hit people over the head [there]"

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And the Country's Most Sorely Overlooked Dance Music Scene is...

Minneapolis and its sister city St. Paul, of course 

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Follow in the Footsteps of...

A couple takes their picture in front of the Bob Dylan mural in downtown Minneapolis
Bob Dylan
The Ultimate Experience at Paisley Park
Prince

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