News & Notes

  • Fans ignite the engine

    Editorial
    Fans: Cultivating a fan base, and using that to grow your audience from the bottom up. If you have "patrons,"...
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  • Fighting the good fight

    Editorial
    Theater is dead. OK, maybe not, but I like saying that, for shock value. Anyway, it's not a new statement...
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  • In defense of music theater

    Editorial
    Let me tell you what irritates me; when people patronize musical theater actors with remarks such as, “Oh, you must...
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  • Exit music

    Editorial
    And now it's done. Maybe. May comes to an end and of course the journey isn't over. Or I have...
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  • Is compassion inherently theatrical?

    Review
    The local playwright Rosanna Staffa once, while describing to me the difference between plays she liked and plays she didn't...
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  • New Native Theatre is born

    News
    Take a few hours out of your day on Monday to support a necessary addition to the Twin Cites theater...
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  • Dirty little secret

    Editorial
    I'm going to reveal a dirty little secret. I love to perform. That has never gone away. No matter how...
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  • Heaven and relationships

    Editorial
    On the heels of the national tour of my dance Heaven, created with and performed by the local, wonder-band...
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  • Lost narratives

    Review
    I've been thinking about the subject of narrative structure and the theater community's relationship to it so much over the...
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  • How to work with a composer

    Editorial
    If you're a director or writer and want music to be a part of your next project, you have a...
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  • The kids are alright

    Editorial
    Mulan. It was Disney. It was Children's Theater. It was ridiculous. And I got choked up SEVERAL times. That...
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  • Who's afraid of Edward Albee?

    Review
    Saw Jungle's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf last night. My favorite quote from the evening was the guy walking out...
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