News & Notes

  • Laughter is a good virus

    Editorial
    In September 2007, I received a call from an employee of Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota because he remembered...
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  • Act a book

    Editorial
    Theater and Literacy Education go together like bananas and chocolate, like glue and construction paper, like the ocean and salty...
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  • Transformation

    Editorial

    Participation. Collaboration. Discovery. Transformation.

    In the performing arts we hold these words dear. We claim them, champion them, and sometimes...
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  • Force v. fear

    Editorial
    Along the same lines of Delta Rae Giordano’s post about Crisis Company there’s another organization in town that also conducts...
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  • Mikael Rudolph remembered

    Editorial
    mikaelwhitepull.jpg Mikael Rudolph: A Memorial statement by Dean J. Seal March 26th, 2010 Social Dance Hall gathering, South Minneapolis I’ve never...
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  • My life in crisis

    Editorial
    You park in the ramp and enter the building in downtown Minneapolis. You get your costume, an orange top and...
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  • Collaboration, communication, and confidence

    Editorial
    It turns out that collaboration, communication, and confidence—skills necessary in order to perform—are skills that are beneficial for people...
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  • Is art food?

    Editorial
    “ART IS FOOD,” proclaimed a flyer by Bread and Puppet Theater in 1984. “You cant EAT it BUT it FEEDS...
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  • Get up, stand up

    Editorial
    Unrequited love, that nauseated road-trip, is an irrational condition limited to human beings—as is "acting," where one behaves in a...
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