Editor’s picks

Mown

By John Middleton
Posted Tuesday, June 29

Regular MinnesotaPlaylist contributor John Middleton returns with his thoughts on the grassroots.

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Leaving a mark

By James Williams
Posted Thursday, April 29

The impulse to create can be channeled into social or antisocial directions. James Williams teaches theater to help build a better society.

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Transformation

By Leah Cooper
Posted Tuesday, April 20

Far from big budget shows and scrambles for development opportunities, Leah Cooper experiences the kind of theater that still lives up to her childhood ideals.

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Reel live: The photographs

By Craig VanDerSchaegen
Posted Wednesday, February 24

Cameras, zombies, and make-up artists-O my! Enjoy this photo essay of actors and crew on three local film sets.

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Minnesota filmmakers, live on stage

By MinnesotaPlaylist
Posted Monday, February 15

Bill Corbett, Patrick Coyle, Ali Selim, and Rob Perez have each seen their visions come alive on the big screen. Enjoy their discussion in this video.

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The missing Minnesota mythos

By Marya Hornbacher
Posted Monday, January 18

"We are on the cusp of a change in what Twin Cities theater is, or at least, what it is willing to do."

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To study the world

By MinnesotaPlaylist
Posted Monday, July 27

Charles Nolte did it all. Then he taught a lot of Minnesota performing artists how to do it too.

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The "Culture Wars" explained, finally

By MinnesotaPlaylist
Posted Thursday, July 23

From the birth of the NEA to the battle fields in Minnesota, Patrick Scully explains the "Culture Wars" coherently, vividly, and quickly.

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Meet the neighbors, Part 2

By Alan M. Berks
Posted Monday, June 8

On a road trip around Greater Minnesota, Alan Berks visits 9 representative organizations, from community theater to university theater to barn-based theater.

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Adaptable

By MinnesotaPlaylist
Posted Monday, May 11

The prolific, ubiquitous, droll, jocular, successful and local playwright Jeffrey Hatcher sits for a video interview on the state of playwrighting.

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Untitled. Unfinished. UNRELEASED.*

By Tom Poole
Posted Monday, May 4

Do you want to do the work required to turn an idea into an actual play more than you want to eat kettle chips and watch reruns of Ultimate Cage Fighting?

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Laws of the Jungle

By MinnesotaPlaylist
Posted Sunday, March 1

Jungle Theater Artistic Director Bain Boehlke and Associate AD Joel Sass explain in a video interview how they think about the plays they put on the stage.

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Don't review this

By Melodie Bahan
Posted Monday, February 2

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

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Interview with Dominique Serrand

By MinnesotaPlaylist
Posted Monday, January 19

From religion to Minnesota's Legacy Amendment to health care reform, one of the forces behind Jeune Lune speaks.

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The good, the bad, and the ugly

By Kathy Graves
Posted Thursday, January 8

Our industry is better able than most to think outside the box. That will serve us well.

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Live wire

By Quinton Skinner
Posted Monday, January 5

The state of the theater cannot be separated from the state of our culture or our lives in this country now.

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Beyond “Offending the Audience” or how I came to write America’s most (and least) wanted play

By Greg Allen
Posted Thursday, December 11

The Neo-Futurists buy pizza for their audience whenever they sell out. Twenty years ago, they never imagined they'd be buying so much pizza.

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Watch out

By Marya Hornbacher
Posted Thursday, December 11

Prof. Paul Woodruff wrote a book on the “art of watching and being watched.” You should avoid reading it if you possibly can.

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Humans with pulses

By Joseph Scrimshaw
Posted Thursday, December 4

Lonely theater artists (LTA) seek HWP (humans with pulse) for GT (good time), maybe a couple laughs. Must be willing to pick up tab.

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Northside

By Jeff Redman
Posted Monday, December 1

The only theater in north Minneapolis survives by knowing their neighbors, from Katie to Carissa to Ellen and her friend Shirley.

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The Taming of the Shrew, Sept 11-26, 2010.  Theatre Pro Rata.

The Taming of the Shrew

See it this week at The Gremlin Theatre in Minneapolis. Presented by Theatre Pro Rata.

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