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See it this week at Shakespeare & Company in White Bear Lake. Presented by Shakespeare & Company.
"History teaches everything, including the future" (Alphonse de Lamartine). While you're enjoying the present summer and worrying about the coming future, we hope you enjoy these video interviews about Minnesota's performing arts past.
Left to right: (top) Don Stolz, Patrick Scully, Faye Price, Judith Brin Inger, (middle) Charles Nolte, Marcus Dillard, Barbara Fields, (bottom) Carolyn Pool, Sheila Livingston, Barbara Kingsley, and Stephen D'Ambrose
6/8 On a road trip around Greater Minnesota, Alan Berks visits 9 representative organizations, from community theater to university theater to barn-based theater. By Alan M. Berks
Perspective helps. As the consequences of the recent economic crisis become more real to the Minnesota performing arts each day, we thought that a little perspective might be nice. We asked artists from across the spectrum to tell us about their memories of the Minnesota performing arts community. From Old Log owner and operator Don Stolz to Patrick's Cabaret creator Patrick Scully, from long-time Minnesota actors Barbara Kingsley and Stephen D'Ambrose to Playwrights Center co-founder and adaptor of the unstoppable Guthrie Christmas Carol Barbara Fields to light designer Marcus Dillard and more. Times have been tough before. Good theaters and dance companies have sadly come and gone, and new, good companies have been born every single decade. Good people putting their all into live performance endures just as it has at the for-profit Old Log Theater for the past seventy years or the one-of-a-kind Playwrights Center for almost 40. We hope you enjoy their stories.
As always, we welcome you to email us your own recollections from Minnesota performing arts history.
An interview with long-time Minnesota theater legend Don Stolz who "refuses to do a play that presents life as hopeless. . . It just isn't true."
Use this text timeline of Minnesota Theater history to follow along with this month's video interviews.
You ever have that dream where you move back to the small town you grew up in and open a homey little arts center? Well, wake up!!!!
Connecting urban arts organizations with the venues in their own backyard is emphatically not a new idea. Plus, go north.
Creative people will be creative. Give people time for the unfamiliar to become familiar. Musicals subsidize, and other lessons from the road in Minnesota.
Check out this list of performing arts festivals in beautiful places that you can reach easily. Enjoy your summer road trips more.