Jillia Pessenda’s Made In China, part of Bedlam Theatre’s Ten Minute Community Play Festival. Courtesy Brad Dahlgaard.
The performing arts exist in the world, about the world, and for the world. In that spirit, we’ve asked a wide variety of performing artists across the state to inaugurate MinnesotaPlaylist.com by responding to the question, “What is the function of the performing arts?”
By Ben Krywosz
Posted Wednesday, October 1
Artists have a responsibility to define their own function in a world that really does crave all forms of artistic expression.
By Mo Perry
Posted Wednesday, October 1
She was done with the play-acting and joined the Peace Corps. But Mo Perry came back to the righteousness (and rum) of theater.
By Marya Hornbacher
Posted Monday, October 6
Theater brings mystery, excitement, and romance, and that’s just when her parents first met. Then she started to see shows.
By Hal Cropp
Posted Monday, October 6
People learn through imitation. Art imitates life. Life imitates art. In this town, they meet in the grocery and city council.
By Joe Chvala
Posted Saturday, October 11
Years ago, people conjured minotaurs, tricksters, and the favor of the gods through ritual. Today, Joe Chvala uses dance and theater.
By Julianna Skluzacek
Posted Saturday, October 11
What happened to the glamorous life in the theater she was promised? Community theater has other rewards. It better!
By Kathleen Spehar-Hansen
Posted Thursday, October 16
Theater is collaborative, but the economy is competitive. Kathleen Spehar-Hansen tries to find balance in service to the community.
By Four Humors Theater
Posted Thursday, October 16
Four soldiers of the theater are pinned down by enemy fire in an unnamed country in an unnamed war. One of them won’t make it home.
By Trú Rúts Endeavors
Posted Tuesday, October 21
Shá Cage and e.g. bailey discuss how artistic expression rises from community in a highly personal way.
By Ryan Hartigan
Posted Tuesday, October 21
Grazing through other intellectual commentary on the arts, Ryan Hartigan turns Oscar Wilde’s aphorism "All art is useless" inside out.
By Michelle Hensley
Posted Sunday, October 26
Performing in prisons and homeless shelters teaches Michelle Hensley a few things about connecting with the audience.
By Alan M. Berks
Posted Sunday, October 26
Why Hamlet is the perfect Baby Boomer.
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phillip low performs in Macbeth: The Video Game Remix playing at Bryant Lake Bowl this month.
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