News & Notes

  • Tom Proehl: A remembrance

    Editorial
    There are all sorts of books on how to be an effective leader, but those of us who had the...
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  • MN Arts Count: Log on and get counted

    News
    It’s easy peasy participating in the MN Arts Count. The process takes less than five minutes (more like two minutes)....
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  • Art, truth and transformation

    Editorial
    In 2006, a counselor at a residential treatment center began offering acting classes once a week to teens living there...
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  • Playhouse hooky

    Editorial
    Unsettling rumors circulating throughout the theater community are starting to make theater employees and arts devotees alike wring their hands...
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  • New company, soft-pedal fundraising

    News
    Some of the former Jeune Luners are on the move again. During a decidedly low-key fundraiser Tuesday evening at Franklin...
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  • The perils and promises of social media

    Editorial
    Last year, the Minnesota Council of Nonprofits’ communications technology conference, “Remix/Refresh/Reload,” could have easily been called “The Twitter Conference.” Social...
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  • Stage Beauty

    News
    During a recent theater tour, I was astounded to learn that much of the scenery painstakingly created for each new...
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  • Writer’s block: A play in one act

    Editorial
    Scene: A desk in a small apartment, somewhere in North America. The stage is dark, save a small Ikea desk...
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  • From stage to screen

    Editorial
    We’ve all been there, right? You’re at a party. Among the movers and shakers you move and, yes, occasionally shake...
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  • “Yeah! We’ve got this!”

    Editorial
    As I walked into the State Capitol on March 8 for my second Arts Advocacy Day, worker protests in Madison...
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