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In this month's issue, we look at the strategies and stories of performing artists who have made a professional life in the theater for decades, are trying to make a life last for decades, or stopped trying to make a life in the theater just last week.
By Steve Hendrickson
Posted Monday, November 2
Steve was a promising young actor with a chance to work with famous director Alan Schneider. Follow along as our tragic hero lets hubris get in the way.
By Wendy Knox
Posted Monday, November 2
Artistic survival is always a challenge. How much harder does it become when your entire mission is to agitate against what comes too easily?
By Casey Greig
Posted Monday, November 2
Is the solution to an actor’s career woes found in an old system? Casey Greig calls it patronage but you might think it's another old word that starts with 'p.'
By Idris Goodwin
Posted Monday, November 9
Do you need to be in a "good theater town" to make good theater? An award-winning playwright tries to build his career in more remote locations.
By MinnesotaPlaylist
Posted Monday, November 9
Don't panic. Organizations and programs exist to help performing artists survive difficult times. Use this brief reference guide in case of emergency.
By Tim Uren
Posted Monday, November 16
How do are you supposed to play this game? When will you know if you win? Sometimes you earn points in the most unexpected places.
By Jeff Bartlett
Posted Monday, November 16
When Jeff Bartlett wandered off the street into a construction zone, he never imagined it would become a good part of his life's work.
By John Middleton
Posted Monday, November 23
We asked one of our favorite writers for his thoughts on surviving as a performing artist. Now, we're not sure whether he'll ever talk to us again.
By Alan M. Berks
Posted Sunday, November 1
Performing artists do complain too much, but that doesn't mean there isn't something really wrong with this system.
By Alan M. Berks
Posted Thursday, November 5
Americans spent $12.1 billion on performing arts admission in 2002 but 81% of Equity actors live on less than $25,000 a year.
By Alan M. Berks
Posted Tuesday, November 10
Actors Sally Wingert, Tracey Maloney, and Bethany Ford share their struggles to make ends meet. No matter your level of experience, you always feel insecure.
By Alan M. Berks
Posted Wednesday, November 18
Artists make their living outside the performing arts using performance skills while non-artists make a living inside the performing arts using business acumen.
By Alan M. Berks
Posted Wednesday, November 18
Full-time salaried employment made Minnesota the theater community it is today. Tiny Lanesboro, MN continues that legacy.
By Alan M. Berks
Posted Friday, November 27
Half-formed thoughts that I don't yet know how to make into stories about making art work.
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.
Brianna Belland Choreographed Innuendos and Outuendos playing at Patrick's Cabaret this month.
Find performers, designers, crew, writers, composers, choreographers, and administrators for your next project.
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
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