February 2009

Reviewing the media

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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?

Articles

The press release

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.

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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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Forgetting taboos

By Dominic Orlando
Posted Thursday, February 5

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

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The follow-up

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.

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How to be a critic

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.

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Review this

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?

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Critical interview

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.

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Batman knows all

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.

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This is our youth

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.

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Using the tubes

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.

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Corporate welfare crybaby hypocrites

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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Shame on me

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.

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Letters to the editor: February 2009

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.

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