By John Middleton
Posted Tuesday, June 29
Regular MinnesotaPlaylist contributor John Middleton returns with his thoughts on the grassroots.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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."
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
By Kathy Graves
Posted Thursday, January 8
Our industry is better able than most to think outside the box. That will serve us well.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
See it this week at The Gremlin Theatre in Minneapolis. Presented by Theatre Pro Rata.

Anissa Siobhan Brazill performs in The Taming of the Shrew playing at The Gremlin Theatre this month.
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