Rank your favorite casts and crew, Week 3

by MinnesotaPlaylist • Oct. 16

Innovation | Vision

This week, we have a bunch of new entries. Let them know what you think of their ideas.

Fantasy Theater League, Week 2

by MinnesotaPlaylist • Oct. 10

Innovation

Week 2 of Fantasy Theater League pits Theater of the Absurd against Theater of the Nude.

Introducing . . . the Fantasy Theater League

by MinnesotaPlaylist • Oct. 2

Innovation

Put your best production ideas to the test in MinnesotaPlaylist's new Fantasy Theater League.

How's your fringe show?

by MinnesotaPlaylist • May. 18

Fringe

The 2011 Minnesota Fringe Festival is three months away. Have you already fallen behind?

Advice to the beginner in the performing arts, part 2

by MinnesotaPlaylist • Jan. 20

Training

Additional advice for the beginner from professionals in the world of performing arts.

Advice to the beginner in the performing arts

by MinnesotaPlaylist • Jan. 13

Training

Local and national theater professionals offer advice to people just getting started in the performing arts.

Local playwrights tackle WikiLeaks

by MinnesotaPlaylist • Dec. 16

Process | Vision

How would playwrights respond to WikiLeaks? We ask ten.

Collaboration song

by MinnesotaPlaylist • Nov. 3

Process | Production

Think you know what sound designers do? Watch this video interview to learn the real scoop from Victor Zupanc, one of the country's best.

Minnesota filmmakers, live on stage

by MinnesotaPlaylist • Feb. 14

Process | Production

Bill Corbett, Patrick Coyle, Ali Selim, and Rob Perez have each seen their visions come alive on the big screen. Enjoy their discussion in this video.

In case of emergency

by MinnesotaPlaylist • Nov. 9

Management

Don't panic. Organizations and programs exist to help performing artists survive difficult times. Use this brief reference guide in case of emergency.

To study the world

by MinnesotaPlaylist • Jul. 26

Training

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

Good company

by MinnesotaPlaylist • Jul. 25

Tradition

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.

The "Culture Wars" explained, finally

by MinnesotaPlaylist • Nov. 3

Management

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

More than cabaret

by MinnesotaPlaylist • Jul. 23

Innovation | Management

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

The big G

by MinnesotaPlaylist • Jul. 20

Tradition

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

Small theaters everywhere

by MinnesotaPlaylist • Jul. 20

Management

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.

Challenge

by MinnesotaPlaylist • Jul. 15

Innovation

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

Lights, character, action

by MinnesotaPlaylist • Jul. 12

Production

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

The center

by MinnesotaPlaylist • Jul. 12

Process

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.

Growth

by MinnesotaPlaylist • Jul. 7

Training

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.

Celebration of spirit

by MinnesotaPlaylist • Jul. 1

Greater Minnesota | Tradition

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."

Just do it

by MinnesotaPlaylist • May. 20

Your handy-dandy guide to new work development opportunities, compiled by MinnesotaPlaylist Intern, Anna Sundberg.

Adaptable

by MinnesotaPlaylist • May. 7

Innovation

The prolific, ubiquitous, droll, jocular, successful and local playwright Jeffrey Hatcher sits for a video interview on the state of playwrighting.

Laws of the Jungle

by MinnesotaPlaylist • Mar. 2

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.

Critical interview

by MinnesotaPlaylist • Feb. 16

Criticism

Four Twin Cities critics sit down for a wide-ranging interview on the tension in their role, their relationship to artists and responsibility to readers.

Interview with Dominique Serrand

by MinnesotaPlaylist • Jan. 21

Management | Vision

From religion to Minnesota's Legacy Amendment to health care reform, one of the forces behind Jeune Lune speaks.

Space for rent

by MinnesotaPlaylist • Nov. 3

Management

Specs and contact information for twenty good rehearsal spaces.