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Box scores 11/22 through 12/4

Process

Bradley Greenwald pitches a perfect game of "I Am My Own Wife" on December 3, 2011. Check it out. How many times have you had a perfect show?

Box scores 11/8 through 11/20

Process

Through our one-of-a-kind box scores, you can follow the progression of the Jungle's "I Am My Own Wife," night by night, up and down. Amazing.

Box scores 9/4 through 9/6

Process

Two shows work minor kinks out of the system on opening weekend.

Who picked the best cast for tragedy?

Innovation

Vote here for your favorite combination of actors in the classic play, Aeschylus's "Agamemnon".

FTL Week 6: Classic Play Edition #2

Innovation

What local cast and design would make Aeschylus's "Agamemnon" soar? Draft your teams today.

Same show, different casts: FTL Week 5

Innovation

How much can a cast make or break a play? Vote here.

FTL Week 5: Classic Play Edition

Innovation

Imagine a fantasy local production of Arthur Miller's classic "All My Sons".

Box scores 10/17 thru 10/23

Production

Anna Bella Eema find its audience in the final weekend. The Woman in Black stumbles through Friday but recovers for Saturday and Sunday.

Cast your vote in Week 4 of FTL

Innovation

What do you want to see? What do you not want to see? Make your preferences known, anonymously.

Call for new teams, Week 4

Innovation

Submit new teams here. Competition is heating up and the public cries out for Craig Johnson to do a solo adaptation of The Importance of Being Earnest.

Box scores 10/12/11 thru 10/16/11

Production

Accidental Death of an Anarchist is exuberant; The Pride closes; Anna Bella Eema hunts for a groove.

Build your own FTL rosters, Week 2

Innovation | Vision

Don't sit on the sidelines any longer. Enter your Fantasy Theater Team before next week's voting.

Introducing . . . Theater Box Scores

Production

Check out our first round of performing arts "box scores," a shorthand way to find out about performances every night of the week.

Create your Fantasy Theater League team

Innovation

Want to play Fantasy Theater? Create your ideal local production here, now until Sunday.

The Minnesota performing arts are...

Describe Minnesota's performing arts scene (with a twist).... We asked the same question last year. Are we more triangle or purple this year?

Thankfully, MinnesotaPlaylist provides...

Everyone likes to know what they do well. What do you like most about MinnesotaPlaylist.com?

I visit MinnesotaPlaylist.com...

How often do you check out the website? We miss you when you're away.

My role is...

What do you do in the performing arts? We accidentally left out the categories "drinker," "whiner," and "mannequin."

I am...

Birthdays are nice. One year older, one year wiser, one year closer to playing King Lear. How old are you?

My total household income is...

The myth is that you're all starving; we suspect the reality is different.

As an artist, I earn...

Last week, four different people said to me, "Really? You can make a living in the theater in Minnesota?" Is that true or not?

I live in...

Stand up for your city, suburb, or grossly over-generalized rural area, and be counted!

Really, the Minnesota performing arts are...

Describe Minnesota's performing arts scene (with less twist and no vermouth at all): Amateur and amazing? Professional and conservative? You tell us.

Post-show traditions...

Where are the best places to go after a show? What is the best way to forget a show that hurt you?

In the future...

What is a phase in the performing arts? And what is here to stay? Express your opinion on twitter, Actors' Equity, and season ticket holders.

If they were king...

Leadership is hard. Which Artistic Director would you put in charge of everything?

If I were king...

Unscientific online polling is really good for creating unfair impressions about controversial issues. We do our part here.

I make art to...

What's your excuse?

Best supporting actor is...

What Minnesota politician would make the best supporting character in a Shakespeare-like history play about Barack Obama's presidency?

It hurts when I do this...

What training method do you think is most over-rated? Which is most under-rated?

Lightning round #2

When you answer these questions, you have a good chance of being right.

If only they had dramaturgs during the Renaissance...

No one notices that Viola is quite feminine? Caesarian section isn't "of woman born"? Why doesn't Hamlet just kill his uncle already?

Lightning round #1

As Americans, we have a God-given right to identify which of two entirely different things is best. Look at how well it works in our political system.

I want to hear from ...

Who would you like to see write an article for MinnesotaPlaylist?

I want to be a featured artist but ...

Why the *^$% haven't you bought a Talent Profile?

I also visit ...

No one is monogamous on the Internet. What other theater websites do you visit?

I need to know more about ...

What subjects do you want us to cover?

If only MinnesotaPlaylist ...

What new features do you want to see most?

Thankfully, MinnesotaPlaylist.com provides ...

What do you like most on our Website?

I am ...

How many times have you been around the block?

I live in ...

Where do you rest your weary, beautiful, creative head?

My total household income is ...

Do MinnesotaPlaylist.com readers all live in tiny studio apartments?

As an artist, I earn ...

Is anyone making money here?

I visit MinnesotaPlaylist.com ...

Tell us how often you grace us with your presence.

I am a ...

Who reads MinnesotaPlaylist.com?

I learned a lot about ...

What was your favorite issue?

What the ...

Which Artistic Director would make the best astronaut?

The Minnesota performing arts are ...

How would you describe Minnesota's performing arts scene? With a twist. . .

I make art to ...

What's your excuse?

My friends/family think I'm ...

Crazy? Flakey? 'Cause all the people we know who work in "regular" jobs are so sane.

I should have been ...

If you could start over what would you be instead?

For the love of ...

Why did you even start performing live?

Methinks he doth write too much ...

What is your least favorite Shakespeare play?

Lightning Round #3

There are two kinds of people in the world - those who divide things into two's, and those who are lying to themselves.

Lightning Round #2

We answer the age-old questions - Shakespeare or Chekhov? Tequila or Jagermeister?

Lightning Round #1

There are two kinds of people in the world - those who divide things into two groups, and those who don't.

If I could only be alone ...

What are the best theaters to bond with the cast, bond with a cast member, or bond with the audience?

Letters to the editor: June 2009

Greater Minnesota

Connecting urban arts organizations with the venues in their own backyard is emphatically not a new idea. Plus, go north.

Letters to the editor: February 2009

Tim Gihring of Minnesota Monthly applauds the ideas in Melodie Bahan's “Don't review this” but asks her to be less cautious as a publicist.

Big ol' virtual suggestion box 2009

More smoking on stage or less? Theater for breakfast? Improv artists teaching second grade teachers? You sent us your big ol' ideas for 2009.

Letters to the editor: January 2009

Readers respond to Quinton Skinner, Polly Carl, Dominique Serrand, and whether or not MinnesotaPlaylist dissed Tony and Tina's Wedding.

Letters to the editor: November 2008

We encourage thoughtful comments, ideas, disagreements, and criticism. Write us. Here are some of the messages we’ve been sent so far.

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BLOG: What're you talking about 10/24-11/3

Posted Nov. 4

News and notes |

This week brings conversations on Halloween costumes, the movie Anonymous, and bad audience behavior

BLOG: What're you talking about 10/15-10/21

Posted Oct. 21

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