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Minnesota nurtures some of the best theater, dance, and unclassifiable live performance in the country. We enjoy an impressive collection of successful community theaters, Tony Award-winning regional theaters, scrappy small professional theaters, dance companies, academic training programs, and indescribably odd and wonderful performance festivals.
MinnesotaPlaylist connects the diverse vibrant strands of this influential and admired performing arts community into a comprehensive, high-quality industry journal aimed specifically at performing artists, designers, administrators, and performing arts fans.
MinnesotaPlaylist provides news you can use on affordable rehearsal space, the latest marketing plans, and more; essential tools you need like audition notices and talent profiles; inspirational discussion about the theories and practices that drive us to create more and better work; and more information on what’s playing in Minnesota right now.
Alan Berks is a Minneapolis-based writer whose work has been seen in New York, Chicago, Phoenix, Indianapolis, San Francisco, and around the Twin Cities. His play Goats was nominated for a 2006 New York Innovative Theater Award. 3 Parts Dead, written in collaboration with Burning House Group, was named one of the best experimental theater productions of 2007 by the Star Tribune. The play Everywhere Signs Fall was also listed by the Star Tribune as one of the best new scripts of 2008.
Leah Cooper is a freelance stage director and nonprofit administration consultant. From 2001 to 2006, she led the Minnesota Fringe Festival to annual attendance increases and financial stability. She currently serves on the Minneapolis Arts Commission.
Matthew Foster is the communications director for the Minnesota Fringe and a freelance graphic designer and Web developer for nonprofit arts and public policy organizations. Matthew is also a playwright and artistic director of the very small, Minneapolis-based theater company Ministry of Cultural Warfare.
Anna Sundberg is a live performance enthusiast. You will see Anna very frequently as an audience member, and somewhat frequently as a performer. Since moving to the Twin Cities in 2006, she has acted with Theatre Unbound, Girl Friday Productions, Theatre in the Round, Walking Shadow Theatre Company, Great River Shakespeare Festival, and Guthrie Theater. She has also performed at Bryant-Lake Bowl, Patrick's Cabaret, the Red Eye, the Rogue Buddha Gallery, the Soap Factory, and Walker Art Center.
In 2001, Twin Cities Theatre and Film started as a nonprofit organization called Twin Cities Theatre and Film Alliance. The mission of the alliance was to strengthen, promote and unify the theatre and film communities of Minneapolis-St. Paul. Part of the fulfillment of this mission was the founding of a Web site.
In February 2002, the alliance sold the site to David Lind, a local actor, director, playwright, and teacher. Over the next few years, David expanded the site’s audience until tctheatreandfilm.org became one of the leading theater industry Web sites in Minnesota with thousands of visitors a week.
In mid-2007, we began discussions with David about taking the site to another level of service. In 2008, we purchased the site and began its transformation in to an in-depth magazine about all live performance (excluding music without a conscious narrative element) around the state.
In October 2008, MinnesotaPlaylist launched with all the functions of tctheatreandfilm.org plus a new design and unique content from artists around the state.
In November 2009, MinnesotaPlaylist celebrated its one-year anniversary with a redesigned, relaunched site including audience reviews, and more.
See it this week at The Gremlin Theatre in St. Paul. Presented by Theatre Pro Rata.
Alexis Clarksean performs in The Awakening playing at Gremlin Theatre this month.
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Pangea_PanLab: HOT review of Teo Castellanos' "NE 2nd Avenue" in the Star Tribune: http://bit.ly/cWEgw7 tonight & tomorrow only #mnpl
JaneCF: Excited to see opening night of Hamlet at Cromulent Shakes! www.cromulentshakespeare.org. #mnpl
TCTheater: RT @jgulden: @TCTheater Wish I could get out and see some things but I will be on stage in BCT's Master Class all weekend! #mnpl
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