Graphic: Andy Rollins
It's awards season because it's time for the change of seasons—not just summer into fall but, for some anachronistic reason, the past theater season into the new one. In honor of the transition, we ask local artists consider their personal bests from the last year.
By Joseph Scrimshaw
Posted Wednesday, September 1
Joseph Scrimshaw begins the month with praise for the kind of effortless comic acting, balancing humor and pathos, that we don't see enough.
See it this week at The Gremlin Theatre in Minneapolis. Presented by Theatre Pro Rata.

Carin Bratlie direced The Taming of the Shrew playing at The Gremlin Theatre this month.
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Commonweal: Required Reading - what would you add to this list of essential theatre reads? http://bit.ly/dneYjx #2amt #mnpl
sailert: Agree. RT @almeberks: #mnpl Scottsboro Boys was wow. Complicated, beautiful, affecting, intelligent, entertaining, disturbing. More please
maxsparber: TC Arts are "in many ways, ahead of the rest of the country" -- NEA Chairman Rocco Landesman http://bit.ly/TCarts #mnpl #2amt