July 2009

Stories

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Left to right: (top) Don Stolz, Patrick Scully, Faye Price, Judith Brin Ingber, (middle) Charles Nolte, Marcus Dillard, Barbara Field, (bottom) Carolyn Pool, Sheila Livingston, Barbara Kingsley, and Stephen D'Ambrose

"History teaches everything, including the future" (Alphonse de Lamartine). While you're enjoying the present summer and worrying about the coming future, we hope you enjoy these video interviews about Minnesota's performing arts past.

Articles

Decade by decade

By Joshua Humphrey
Posted Wednesday, July 1

Use this text timeline of Minnesota Theater history to follow along with this month's video interviews.

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Celebration of spirit

By MinnesotaPlaylist
Posted Wednesday, July 1

An interview with long-time Minnesota theater legend Don Stolz who "refuses to do a play that presents life as hopeless. . . It just isn't true."

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Growth

By MinnesotaPlaylist
Posted Tuesday, July 7

The creator of the Choreographers' Evening, Judith Brin Ingber has been in middle of the growth of dance in Minnesota from the 1950s to today.

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Lights, character, action

By MinnesotaPlaylist
Posted Monday, July 13

Lighting designer Marcus Dillard steps out from behind the scenes to share his recollections. "The technology is changing everything constantly."

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The center

By MinnesotaPlaylist
Posted Monday, July 13

How did the Guthrie's cash machine "A Christmas Carol" happen? Where did the Playwrights Center come from? Barbara Field was in the middle of it.

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Challenge

By MinnesotaPlaylist
Posted Thursday, July 16

Mixed Blood, Penumbra, August Wilson, New York, the Guthrie, Pillsbury House — Faye Price is on quite a journey.

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Small theaters everywhere

By MinnesotaPlaylist
Posted Monday, July 20

By the mid-90s, the Twin Cities suddenly appeared to be crawling with scrappy, spunky, young, and tiny independent new theaters. Carolyn Pool dove right in.

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The big G

By MinnesotaPlaylist
Posted Monday, July 20

Sheila Livingston came to Minnesota at the same time as Tyrone Guthrie. In the early days, a big G meant cereal, not theater.

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More than cabaret

By MinnesotaPlaylist
Posted Thursday, July 23

How do you put politics into dance? Or build a queer-identified space where straights feel welcome? Why do it at all? Patrick Scully answers

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The "Culture Wars" explained, finally

By MinnesotaPlaylist
Posted Thursday, July 23

From the birth of the NEA to the battle fields in Minnesota, Patrick Scully explains the "Culture Wars" coherently, vividly, and quickly.

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Good company

By MinnesotaPlaylist
Posted Saturday, July 25

Stephen D'Ambrose and Barbara Kingsley have built lives as actors in this community that so many admire. They're also such great fun to talk with.

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To study the world

By MinnesotaPlaylist
Posted Monday, July 27

Charles Nolte did it all. Then he taught a lot of Minnesota performing artists how to do it too.

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Blogs

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Wild grass

May 2010
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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. . .

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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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