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Room Service

See it this week at Theatre in the Round in Minneapolis. Presented by Theatre in the Round.

July 2009
Stories

"History teaches everything, including the future" (Alphonse de Lamartine). While you're enjoying the present summer and worrying about the coming future, we hope you enjoy these video interviews about Minnesota's performing arts past.

July 2009: Stories

Left to right: (top) Don Stolz, Patrick Scully, Faye Price, Judith Brin Ingber, (middle) Charles Nolte, Marcus Dillard, Barbara Fields, (bottom) Carolyn Pool, Sheila Livingston, Barbara Kingsley, and Stephen D'Ambrose

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In this month’s issue

Perspective helps. As the consequences of the recent economic crisis become more real to the Minnesota performing arts each day, we thought that a little perspective might be nice. We asked artists from across the spectrum to tell us about their memories of the Minnesota performing arts community. From Old Log owner and operator Don Stolz to Patrick's Cabaret creator Patrick Scully, from long-time Minnesota actors Barbara Kingsley and Stephen D'Ambrose to Playwrights Center co-founder and adaptor of the unstoppable Guthrie Christmas Carol Barbara Fields to light designer Marcus Dillard and more. Times have been tough before. Good theaters and dance companies have sadly come and gone, and new, good companies have been born every single decade. Good people putting their all into live performance endures — just as it has at the for-profit Old Log Theater for the past seventy years or the one-of-a-kind Playwrights Center for almost 40. We hope you enjoy their stories.


As always, we welcome you to email us your own recollections from Minnesota performing arts history.

  • July 13
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    MinnesotaPlaylist

    How did the Guthrie's cash machine "A Christmas Carol" happen? Where did the Playwrights Center come from? Barbara Fields was in the middle of it.

  • July 13
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    Lighting designer Marcus Dillard steps out from behind the scenes to share his recollections. "The technology is changing everything constantly."

  • July 7
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    The creator of the Choreographers' Evening, Judith Brin Ingber has been in middle of the growth of dance in Minnesota from the 1950s to today.

  • July 1
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    An interview with long-time Minnesota theater legend Don Stolz who "refuses to do a play that presents life as hopeless. . . It just isn't true."

  • July 1
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    Joshua Humphrey

    Use this text timeline of Minnesota Theater history to follow along with this month's video interviews.

  • June 28
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    Alan M. Berks

    It's never going to work as long as landlords get more grant money than artists.

  • June 22
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    Clark A. Cruikshank

    You ever have that dream where you move back to the small town you grew up in and open a homey little arts center? Well, wake up!!!!

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