Christopher Kehoe in Monster, part of Theatre Pro Rata's 2009-2010 season. Know your season? List it in the performance calendar and send us a good photo. We’ll plug it here through the month. (Photo: Charlie Gorrill)
Around conference tables or in coffee shops, bars, and apartments, tis the season for performing arts companies to make lists and check them twice, before they announce the shows they'll be offering for the 2009-2010 season. As winter grinds on, we wait and wonder, and make a few suggestions.
By MinnesotaPlaylist
Posted Sunday, March 1
Jungle Theater Artistic Director Bain Boehlke and Associate AD Joel Sass explain in a video interview how they think about the plays they put on the stage.
By Rhiana Yazzie
Posted Thursday, March 5
Great plays about the Native American experience exist. In a state with such a large Native population, Rhiana Yazzie explores a canon we should know better.
By Steve Antenucci
Posted Thursday, March 5
Theatre in the Round's Steve Antenucci describes how to grudge, kick and scream your way to a season.
By Walking Shadow Theatre Company
Posted Monday, March 9
The creators of Shakespeare's Land of the Dead fill their seasons by reading and seeing more than seems possible.
By Matthew A. Everett
Posted Monday, March 9
Blogger and playwright Matthew A. Everett believes the next Kushner, or Albee, or even Shakespeare, is right under your nose. Meet them; do their work.
By Casey Greig
Posted Thursday, March 12
Sitting with his unemployment check, actor Casey Greig fantasizes about a season that'll draw in a younger audience. His fantasies are loud.
By Tom Hoch
Posted Thursday, March 12
Three historic theaters to program, 5800 seats to fill, and a city to please. Find out why you can see Wicked one night and Gordon Lightfoot the next.
By Michael-jon Pease
Posted Monday, March 16
The nonprofit theater subscriber has been around since the regional theater movement began. Can they survive in a new economy? Should they? Why and why not?
By Harry Waters Jr.
Posted Wednesday, March 18
Macalester Professor and actor Harry Waters Jr. cares less about what plays you pick than he does about how you choose to do them.
By Richard Hitchler
Posted Monday, March 23
What if your theater is so peculiar or so particular that you need to make the scripts before you can make the season?
By Alan M. Berks
Posted Thursday, March 26
A completely biased, utterly subjective, unapologetically redundant, totally unsolicited list of demands about your next season.
September 2010
Personal best
August 2010
Fringe points of view
July 2010
Gone fishin'
June 2010
Wild grass
May 2010
What's that sound?
April 2010
The healing arts
March 2010
All the world's a stage. . .
February 2010
Reel live
January 2010
Feeling Minnesota
December 2009
Jingle blogs
November 2009
Making art, work
October 2009
So very close. . .
See it this week at The Gremlin Theatre in Minneapolis. Presented by Theatre Pro Rata.
Grant Henderson performs in The Taming of the Shrew playing at The Gremlin Theatre this month.
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Commonweal: Required Reading - what would you add to this list of essential theatre reads? http://bit.ly/dneYjx #2amt #mnpl
sailert: Agree. RT @almeberks: #mnpl Scottsboro Boys was wow. Complicated, beautiful, affecting, intelligent, entertaining, disturbing. More please
maxsparber: TC Arts are "in many ways, ahead of the rest of the country" -- NEA Chairman Rocco Landesman http://bit.ly/TCarts #mnpl #2amt