Commonweal Theatre Company's new space (open since 2007) stretches behind three old storefronts in downtown Lanesboro.
From Duluth to Willmar, Bemidji to Lanesboro, the performing arts have a long history and vibrant presence throughout Minnesota. In this issue, we focus specifically on what’s happening outside the Cities.
By Alan M. Berks
Posted Monday, June 1
Get a video introduction to some of the theater makers who make Greater Minnesota safe for the performing arts. Part 1 of 3.
By Joseph Scrimshaw
Posted Thursday, June 4
Looking for Total Artistic Control, Kathy Welch and Rick Coleman moved from the Twin Cities to the Old Gem Theater in New Richmond, WI. Learn what they found.
By Jon Mikkelsen
Posted Thursday, June 4
What do you do when you've written a raunchy gay sex farce sure to offend delicate sensibilities? Take it on the road, of course.
By Alan M. Berks
Posted Monday, June 8
On a road trip around Greater Minnesota, Alan Berks visits 9 representative organizations, from community theater to university theater to barn-based theater.
By Zach Curtis
Posted Thursday, June 11
Summer stock theater is a blur of frenzied blocking, memorizing, forgetting, tripping, building up, tearing down, and drinking. Peek inside the craziness.
By Paul Barnes
Posted Monday, June 15
Dream of starting a theater festival? If you're lucky, you'll find yourself as attractive and willing a dance partner as the city of Winona.
By Anna Sundberg
Posted Monday, June 15
Check out this list of performing arts festivals in beautiful places that you can reach easily. Enjoy your summer road trips more.
By Alan M. Berks
Posted Thursday, June 18
Creative people will be creative. Give people time for the unfamiliar to become familiar. Musicals subsidize, and other lessons from the road in Minnesota.
By Minnesota Playlist readers
Posted Sunday, June 21
Connecting urban arts organizations with the venues in their own backyard is emphatically not a new idea. Plus, go north.
By Clark A. Cruikshank
Posted Monday, June 22
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!!!!
By Alan M. Berks
Posted Sunday, June 28
It's never going to work as long as landlords get more grant money than artists.
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.
Anna Sundberg performs in Robin Hood playing at Children's Theatre Company this month.
Find performers, designers, crew, writers, composers, choreographers, and administrators for your next project.
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
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