Professional Theater Companies

Newsweek covers Tony Kushner in Minnesota

The famed writer of Angels in America is sharing his spotlight.

American Idiot to hit the stage this September

Green Day's lumbering concept opus barges into the world of musical theater.

CNN International profiles Minneapolis's economy

The gist: Things are shitty in MPLS, but slightly less shitty than the average American city, thanks in part to a robust health care industry. Another silver lining: local theater companies are thriving as Twin Citians flock there to escape reality.

Readers respond to City Pages' theater cutbacks

Guthrie Theater's Joe Dowling makes more than NYC peers?

Jeff Bartlett

TU Dance charms St. Paul crowd

Audiences at The O'Shaugnessy ... More >>

Arts Community Fires Warning Shot for Southern Theater

Brave New Workshop: Sharp as ever after 50 years

Throwing knives at critics hasn't undercut the group's popularity

Southern's Bartlett, 30-year arts veteran, ousted: outcry ensues

Final Act

Jeune Lune's artistic director discusses the renowned theater company's demise

Breaking All the Rules

What is Workhaus thinking? They let writers produce plays that no one has ever seen!.

New Horizons

After 30 years at Jeune Lune, cofounder Barbra Berlovitz explores another stage in her career

A tribute for Lou

The Year in Theater

The Greeks, the geeks, the freaks, the dualistic representations of the Argentine distaff underclass--all the best of Twin Cities drama circa 2005

Backstage Drama

Is the Playwrights' Center alienating its local core--or are its critics just acting out?

Aycking To Be

Edwin Strout strives to give a comic hero his proper due

What Rhymes With Frolicsomeness?

The Guthrie hijacks 'The Pirates of Penzance'

The Year in Theater

Last year my boss sent me to sit in a dark room for 150 nights. Here's what I took away from the ordeal.

War of the Worlds

Kent Stephens's latest project is a play about a play about a rehearsal of a play about a novel

A Woman's Work is Never Done

Women make up well more than half of the Guthrie's audience, but less than 10 percent of its produced playwrights. Is this a tragedy or a farce?

A World Without Tutus

Civic boosters are proud of the Twin Cities' theaters, orchestras, museums, and literary centers. so what happened to the ballet?

Together

A Small Cadre of Theater Artists Prove the Value of Company

The Year in Theater

Projectile Criticism

Assuring Theatrical Quality Through a Well-Armed Director

The Trouper

How to win over critics and lose money, sleep, and ambition: A life in local theater

Digital Drama

Capital Drama

Footsteps

After a storybook career on the stage, dancer and choreographer Lise Houlton helms the troupe her mother founded, Minnesota Dance Theater

Dramatis Personae

Trading Places

In a drama of mistaken identities, superproducer Cameron Mackintosh brings a musical to a nonprofit stage, while the Guthrie claims a cut of the residuals

Shadow and Act

Penumbra Theatre's campaign to build an ambitious new stage has the makings of an epic drama--or a nonprofit tragedy

Exciting Foreplay

Remain in Light

The Customer is Always Right

For nearly 60 years, the Old Log Theater has practiced the art of making a profit

If you build it...

Much To-Do

Richard Iglewski's sense of play and artistry extend from Shakespearean drama to Eastern music

The Big House

Public politicking. Cautious programming. Retail-style marketing. Has the Guthrie Theater, with its 1,300 seats and $40 million endowment, become a prisoner of the community that built it?

Day Trippers

Rent Hike: A leggy landlady (Lola Lesheim) makes paying rent a kind of murder for her pulp-writing tenant (Paul Smith) in Killers

The Pilgrim's Progress

Six Feet High and Rising: Storyteller Jim Stowell takes measure of water under the bridge in Three Rivers Meeting.

Dramatis Personae

I'm Dreaming of a Green Christmas

When Santa cuts back on grant money, local theaters turn to their holiday shows to change coal into cash.

The Show Must Go On

Orpheum Theatre Manager Fred Krohn has a contract with the city requiring that he book only union shows. Yet when he brought in the non-Equity 42nd St., the city looked the other way.

Mending Fences

The Twin Cities' most celebrated playwright and their most prominent theater finally meet--under questionable circumstances.

It Takes A Nation Of Millions

Making A Scene