Reviewing the media

The press release

by Alan M. Berks • Feb. 2

Criticism | Management

Don't give reporters reason to curse you. Make sure your press release spreads word of your show, easy and smooth.

Don't review this

by Melodie Bahan • Feb. 2

Criticism | Vision

Melodie Bahan loves good performing arts writing so much that she's begging arts journalists to make her life as a publicist more difficult.

Forgetting taboos

by Dominic Orlando • Feb. 5

Criticism | Vision

A critic’s reaction inspires Dominic Orlando to contemplate Doubt, Forgetting, and a taboo greater than sex.

The follow-up

by Alan M. Berks • Feb. 8

Criticism | Management

Some journalists will tell you that they haven't got time to answer their phones. Call them anyway.

Review this

by Alan M. Berks • Feb. 12

Criticism

How should a critic pick what shows to review? The Star Tribune's Graydon Royce sends us an honest question. How would you respond?

How to be a critic

by John Middleton • Nov. 3

Criticism

Clarity is not your friend; foreign-sounding words are - and other tricks of the critical trade from John Middleton.

Critical interview

by MinnesotaPlaylist • Feb. 16

Criticism

Four Twin Cities critics sit down for a wide-ranging interview on the tension in their role, their relationship to artists and responsibility to readers.

Batman knows all

by phillip andrew bennett low • Feb. 19

Criticism

Storyteller and blogger phillip low considers Jeffrey Hatcher's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, a new twist on the original two-face story.

This is our youth

by • Feb. 19

Audience | Innovation

University of Minnesota student Cristeta Boarini thinks more young people would go to theater, if more theater was like The Flickering Wall.

Using the tubes

by Matthew Foster • Feb. 22

Criticism | Management

Two rules for online media: If you build it, they won't come, and everything will take more labor than you think. Scared? Don't worry. There are options.

Letters to the editor: February 2009

by Minnesota Playlist readers • Feb. 25

Tim Gihring of Minnesota Monthly applauds the ideas in Melodie Bahan's “Don't review this” but asks her to be less cautious as a publicist.

Shame on me

by Brad Zellar • Feb. 26

Criticism

Can Pure Confidence save theater? MinnesotaPlaylist tries to convert one theater skeptic at a time, starting with local writer Brad Zellar.

Corporate welfare crybaby hypocrites

by Matthew Foster • Feb. 26

Criticism

Cutting arts funding is moronic fiscal policy; it can only be justified as cultural revenge killling.