Alan M. Berks is a Minneapolis-based writer whose plays have been seen in New York, Chicago, Phoenix, Indianapolis, San Francisco, and around the Twin Cities. He helped create Thirst Theater a while back. Now, he’s the co-founder of this here magazine. He’s also written Almost Exactly Like Us, How to Cheat, 3 Parts Dead, Goats, and more.
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TCG report, part 2
EditorialEditor's Note: Note that the following is written in a conversational, free-associational fashion—in other words, a blog rather than a...read the story -
Talk to the Theater Alliance
NewsHave you ever found yourself in a conversation with someone telling you precisely what "this theater community needs" and realizing...read the story -
Bob Malos is awesome
NewsHave you ever had an unexpected emergency that made it that much more difficult to work as artist? Perhaps your...read the story -
New Native Theatre is born
NewsTake a few hours out of your day on Monday to support a necessary addition to the Twin Cites theater...read the story -
Is compassion inherently theatrical?
ReviewThe local playwright Rosanna Staffa once, while describing to me the difference between plays she liked and plays she didn't...read the story -
Lost narratives
ReviewI've been thinking about the subject of narrative structure and the theater community's relationship to it so much over the...read the story -
Who's afraid of Edward Albee?
ReviewSaw Jungle's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf last night. My favorite quote from the evening was the guy walking out...read the story -
MinnesotaPlaylist.com is ice cream
News110,221 number of page views MinnesotaPlaylist.com experienced in the last thirty days. We've been over 100,000 per month for two...read the story -
Last night's forum on race and casting
NewsMarianne Combs moderated. She summarizes the positive ideas she found in the forum. Rohan Preston looks for controversy, but...read the story