City Pages critic Quinton Skinner, Pioneer Press critic Dominic Papatola, dance critic Camille LeFevre, and Star Tribune critic Graydon Royce sat down with MinnesotaPlaylist.com. See our video interview, Feb. 16.
How can I get them to cover my show? How can I get them to cover my show in the right way? Why do they hate me? Why don’t they help us? What do these people called "the press" think they're doing anyway?
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 Alan M. Berks
Posted Monday, February 2
Don't give reporters reason to curse you. Make sure your press release spreads word of your show, easy and smooth.
By Dominic Orlando
Posted Thursday, February 5
A critic’s reaction inspires Dominic Orlando to contemplate Doubt, Forgetting, and a taboo greater than sex.
By Alan M. Berks
Posted Sunday, February 8
Some journalists will tell you that they haven't got time to answer their phones. Call them anyway.
By Alan M. Berks
Posted Thursday, February 12
How should a critic pick what shows to review? The Star Tribune's Graydon Royce sends us an honest question. How would you respond?
By John Middleton
Posted Thursday, February 12
Clarity is not your friend; foreign-sounding words are - and other tricks of the critical trade from John Middleton.
By MinnesotaPlaylist
Posted Monday, February 16
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.
By phillip andrew bennett low
Posted Wednesday, February 18
Storyteller and blogger phillip low considers Jeffrey Hatcher's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, a new twist on the original two-face story.
By Cristeta Boarini
Posted Thursday, February 19
University of Minnesota student Cristeta Boarini thinks more young people would go to theater, if more theater was like The Flickering Wall.
By Matthew Foster
Posted Monday, February 23
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.
By Minnesota Playlist readers
Posted Thursday, February 26
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.
By Brad Zellar
Posted Thursday, February 26
Can Pure Confidence save theater? MinnesotaPlaylist tries to convert one theater skeptic at a time, starting with local writer Brad Zellar.
By Matthew Foster
Posted Thursday, February 26
Cutting arts funding is moronic fiscal policy; it can only be justified as cultural revenge killling.
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Pangea_PanLab: HOT review of Teo Castellanos' "NE 2nd Avenue" in the Star Tribune: http://bit.ly/cWEgw7 tonight & tomorrow only #mnpl
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TCTheater: RT @jgulden: @TCTheater Wish I could get out and see some things but I will be on stage in BCT's Master Class all weekend! #mnpl
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