Greater Minnesota

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Commonweal Theatre Company's multi-million dollar 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.

Our town

by Hal Cropp • Dec. 21

Greater Minnesota

People learn through imitation. Art imitates life. Life imitates art. In this town, they meet in the grocery and city council.

Why community theater, or: Why my couch has been onstage more than I have

by Julianna Skluzacek • Dec. 21

Greater Minnesota | Process

What happened to the glamorous life in the theater she was promised? Community theater has other rewards. It better!

Inside outside (the photos)

by V. Paul Virtucio • Dec. 30

Greater Minnesota | Process

Photos from the rehearsal process.

Inside outside

by Stuart Pimsler Dance and Theater • Dec. 30

Greater Minnesota | Process

Inside the process exactly as it happened of reworking Rooms of Disquiet at the Tofte Lake Center.

Meet the neighbors

by Alan M. Berks • Jun. 1

Greater Minnesota

Get a video introduction to some of the theater makers who make Greater Minnesota safe for the performing arts. Part 1 of 3.

First, we take Des Moines

by Jon Mikkelsen • Jun. 3

Audience | Greater Minnesota

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.

Apples and Kabuki in Wisconsin

by Joseph Scrimshaw • Jun. 3

Greater Minnesota

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.

Meet the neighbors, Part 2

by Alan M. Berks • Jun. 8

Greater Minnesota

On a road trip around Greater Minnesota, Alan Berks visits 9 representative organizations, from community theater to university theater to barn-based theater.

Winona hugs us

by Paul Barnes • Jun. 13

Greater Minnesota

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.

Meet the neighbors, Part 3

by Alan M. Berks • Jun. 18

Greater Minnesota

Creative people will be creative. Give people time for the unfamiliar to become familiar. Musicals subsidize, and other lessons from the road in Minnesota.

Letters to the editor: June 2009

by Minnesota Playlist readers • Jun. 21

Greater Minnesota

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

Seduced

by Clark A. Cruikshank • Jun. 21

Greater Minnesota

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!!!!

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."

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