March 2009

Tis the season

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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.

Articles

Laws of the Jungle

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.

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Meet First Nations Theater

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.

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360 degrees

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.

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Reading for awesomeness

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.

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The writer next door

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.

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Blood! Dead cats! Punk rock!

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.

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Multi-theater complex

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.

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Subscriber basics

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?

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Mix and match

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.

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Young and new

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?

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No one asked me but …

By Alan M. Berks
Posted Thursday, March 26

A completely biased, utterly subjective, unapologetically redundant, totally unsolicited list of demands about your next season.

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Now playing

The Taming of the Shrew, Sept 11-26, 2010.  Theatre Pro Rata.

The Taming of the Shrew

See it this week at The Gremlin Theatre in Minneapolis. Presented by Theatre Pro Rata.

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Grant Henderson performs in The Taming of the Shrew playing at The Gremlin Theatre this month.

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