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Guest Editor Ira Brooker is a writer and editor residing in Saint Paul's scenic Midway neighborhood. He holds down a corporate job by day and does freelance and creative work at night. He has been published in a number of venues both local and national, several of which you may have even heard of. He occasionally prattles on about pop culture at A Talent For Idleness and maintains an archive at irabrooker.com.

Articles by this author

Sympathy for the Jocks

by Ira Brooker • May. 14

Audience

Playlist editor Ira Brooker attempts to end the culture wars between sports fans and arts lovers.

The beautiful recyclability of theater

by Ira Brooker • Apr. 18

Tradition

Theater is the rare art form that not only welcomes but requires endless remakes, and that's a great thing.

Unloading Chekhov's gun

by Ira Brooker • Mar. 24

Process

In defense of the "pointless" digression.

"Be our Judas": Sam Landman's 'Audition Notices' hit home

by Ira Brooker • Feb. 14

Writer and actor Sam Landman's sardonic #AuditionNotice tweets help local theater folk laugh through the pain.

Searching for awful theater

by Ira Brooker • Jan. 28

Audience

Watching bad movies is a time-honored tradition. Is there a similar niche for transcendently terrible theater?

Who's afraid of The Pirate Bay?

by Ira Brooker • Jan. 7

Tradition

While books, music and movies scramble to adapt to the age of torrents, theater enjoys its unique niche as a virtually pirate-proof art form.

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