Acting

Balancing act

By Joseph Scrimshaw
Posted Wednesday, September 1

Joseph Scrimshaw begins the month with praise for the kind of effortless comic acting, balancing humor and pathos, that we don't see enough.

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80% of success

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.

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Good company

By MinnesotaPlaylist
Posted Saturday, July 25

Stephen D'Ambrose and Barbara Kingsley have built lives as actors in this community that so many admire. They're also such great fun to talk with.

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Small theaters everywhere

By MinnesotaPlaylist
Posted Monday, July 20

By the mid-90s, the Twin Cities suddenly appeared to be crawling with scrappy, spunky, young, and tiny independent new theaters. Carolyn Pool dove right in.

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Fuchsia sombrero ashtray

By Mo Perry
Posted Wednesday, May 27

From an actor's perspective, if working on a classic piece of theater is a paint-by-number project, then doing new works is a beginner’s pottery class.

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I ♥ difficult actors

By Matt Sciple
Posted Monday, November 24

Have you met Anita Coddle or Ivanna Feelit? Though they may seem difficult, they keep theater lively.

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Another actor prepares

By John Middleton
Posted Thursday, November 20

A comprehensive, sequential warm-up from breath to yoga to centering—um, does anyone else feel a little numb right now?

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Dumb as planned

By Chris Carlson
Posted Monday, November 17

The question is “How do you rehearse improv?” The answer: Bananas. Seriously. Improvisers make it art to not know what they’re doing.

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Noble dress-up

By Mo Perry
Posted Wednesday, October 1

She was done with the play-acting and joined the Peace Corps. But Mo Perry came back to the righteousness (and rum) of theater.

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The Taming of the Shrew, Sept 11-26, 2010.  Theatre Pro Rata.

The Taming of the Shrew

See it this week at The Gremlin Theatre in Minneapolis. Presented by Theatre Pro Rata.

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Anissa Siobhan Brazill performs in The Taming of the Shrew playing at The Gremlin Theatre this month.

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