By Roy Close
Posted Monday, May 25
Muzzle the urge to call that theater critic a despicable prick. The critic may just be the best friend a new work can have.
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 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 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 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 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 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 Dominic Orlando
Posted Thursday, February 5
A critic’s reaction inspires Dominic Orlando to contemplate Doubt, Forgetting, and a taboo greater than sex.
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.
See it this week at The Gremlin Theatre in St. Paul. Presented by Theatre Pro Rata.

Anissa Siobhan Brazill performs in The Spanish Tragedy playing at The Gremlin Theatre this month.
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