Criticism

When critic meets playwright

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.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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