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.
September 2010
Personal best
August 2010
Fringe points of view
July 2010
Gone fishin'
June 2010
Wild grass
May 2010
What's that sound?
April 2010
The healing arts
March 2010
All the world's a stage. . .
February 2010
Reel live
January 2010
Feeling Minnesota
December 2009
Jingle blogs
November 2009
Making art, work
October 2009
So very close. . .
See it this week at The Gremlin Theatre in Minneapolis. Presented by Theatre Pro Rata.

Lesley J. Rice performs in 'Miniature Horse Don't Go to Heaven' and Other Plays Inspired by Real News Headlines playing at Bryant Lake Bowl 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