‘Priscilla’ at the Orpheum; Jewish Humor Festival
ALSO: ‘Out There 25: Reality/Identity/Myth’ at the Walker;’ The Terra-Gatto Warriors’ at Flanders Gallery; and more.
Weekend Best Bets
Weekend Best Bets is compiled by Minnesota Monthly arts editor Tim Gihring and appears every Thursday on MinnPost and on Minnesota Monthly’s website.
Lorna Landvik at BLB; images of Africa at the Weisman
ALSO: Kelly Rossum Quartet at the Dakota; explorations of memory at Rosalux Gallery; and more.
Peter Ostroushko at Landmark Center; Penumbra’s ‘Black Nativity’
ALSO: SPCO musicians’ ‘Messiah’; ‘All Is Calm’ at the Pantages; Alexander O’Neal at the Dakota; and more.
‘A John Waters Christmas’ monologue; ‘Catch Me If You Can’ at the Orpheum
ALSO: The Chastity Brown Band and Sophia Shorai at the Dakota; ‘Eat: An Exhibition by Wing Young Huie’ at Third Place Gallery; and more.
‘Servant’ at the Guthrie; ‘Santaland’ at the Southern
ALSO: ‘Madame Josette’s Naughty and Nice Cabaret’; a reading of ‘A Stone Thrown at the Guilty’; and more.
British ads at the Walker; Miss Richfield 1981 at Illusion
ALSO: Os Mutantes at the Cedar; thriller ‘Barbara’ at Film Society fundraiser; ‘A Tuna Christmas’; and more.
Replacements tribute at First Avenue; Shakespeare at Park Square
ALSO: ‘Miracle on Christmas Lake II’ in Osseo; Rogue Valley with Joey Ryan & The Inks at the Cedar; and more.
MCAD art sale; Zenon Dance at the Cowles Center
ALSO: SooVAC’s holiday pop-up shop; Leslie Jordan’s ‘Fruit Fly’; TU Dance in St. Paul; and more.
Cindy Sherman show at the Walker; ‘Untitled 9’ at SooVAC
ALSO: New Native Theatre’s ‘2012: The Musical’; Andy DuCett’s installation at the Soap Factory; and more.
Art Attack at Northrup King; ‘Company’ at the Ordway
ALSO: Laurie Anderson workshop for kids; MST3K creator Joel Hodgson’s one-man show; and more.
Dave Pirner, Chris Kluwe playing ‘vote no’ rally at Triple Rock Social Club
ALSO: The BodyCartography Project’s ‘Super Nature’ at the Walker; China’s terracotta warriors at MIA; and more.
Stonesfest at the Parkway; ‘King Lear’ at Park Square
ALSO: Delfos Danza Contemporánea at the Ordway; Halloween puppets; ‘Beatnik Giselle’; and more.
Twin Cities Film Fest: 9 days, 60 films
ALSO: St. Paul Art Crawl expands; Sound Unseen at Trylon; and more.
Strong cast in deft ‘Next to Normal’ at Mixed Blood
ALSO: ‘Measure for Measure’ at Open Book; Cuban music at the Dakota; and more.
Kathleen Edwards at Varsity; So Percussion at the Walker
ALSO: an ‘I Puritani’ concert opera at the Cowles; Esperanza Spalding’s Radio Music Society; and more.
‘Nabucco’ at Minnesota Opera; Festa Italiana at Harriet Island
ALSO: Nanci Griffith brings her “folkabilly” to the Dakota; ‘A Hole’ at Open Eye; and more.
Plays aplenty: ‘RED,’ ‘Tales of Hollywood,’ ‘The Way of Water’
ALSO: Rosy Simas Danse at the Southern; MN Orchestra musicians at Lake Harriet Bandshell; and more.
Dosh, Gary Louris, SPCO at Concrete & Grass Festival
ALSO: ‘Why We Do This’ at Soap Factory; ‘The Brothers Size’ at the Guthrie; Kramarczuk’s Kielbasa Festival; and more.
Jayhawks, Dessa, Semisonic at the Fair
ALSO: ‘The Philadelphia Story’ in Lanesboro; Edward S. Curtis photos at the Black Dog; Matt Moberg at Lake Harriet Bandshell; and more.
Fabulous Thunderbirds at the Fair; last chance for ‘Vampire’
ALSO: ‘Waiting for Godot’ at the Jungle; LoLa Art Crawl; S. Carey and ‘O Brother Where Art Thou’; and more.
