Theater

Playwrights' Center 40th Anniversary Celebration: No Work, All Play

The Birds at the Guthrie

Play is really nothing to crow about

You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown

Bloomington Civic Theatre

The Lion King

Bloomington Civic Theatre

Parallel Lives

Bloomington Civic Theatre

Street Scene

Bloomington Civic Theatre

Shakespeare Smash!

Bloomington Civic Theatre

One for the Road

Bloomington Civic Theatre

Next To Normal

Bloomington Civic Theatre

Avenue Q revamped at Mixed Blood

More puppets being naughty

Heroes

More puppets being naughty

The Santaland Diaries

More puppets being naughty

"The Scottsboro Boys" next step is on Broadway

Paul Kolnik"The Scottsboro Boys" put on a happy face​Our review of The Scottsboro Boys at the Guthrie hits the stands today (click here to read). It's a compelling, complicated, intellectually charged musical (one more than worth seeing), although those involved surely can't help but look past the ... More >>

The Scottsboro Boys

Paul Kolnik"The Scottsboro Boys" put on a happy face​Our review of The Scottsboro Boys at the Guthrie hits the stands today (click here to read). It's a compelling, complicated, intellectually charged musical (one more than worth seeing), although those involved surely can't help but look past the ... More >>

Playwrights' Center hires Cohen as Producing Artistic Director

Welcome to the tundra: Jeremy Cohen joins the Playwrights' Center​The Playwrights' Center announces today the hiring of Jeremy B. Cohen as Producing Artistic Director (the second in PWC history), slated to move to the Twin Cities in August and officially take his post the next month, at which time ... More >>

Untitled Duet with Houseplant

Welcome to the tundra: Jeremy Cohen joins the Playwrights' Center​The Playwrights' Center announces today the hiring of Jeremy B. Cohen as Producing Artistic Director (the second in PWC history), slated to move to the Twin Cities in August and officially take his post the next month, at which time ... More >>

Playwrights' Center Reading: The Three Christs of Yspilanti

Welcome to the tundra: Jeremy Cohen joins the Playwrights' Center​The Playwrights' Center announces today the hiring of Jeremy B. Cohen as Producing Artistic Director (the second in PWC history), slated to move to the Twin Cities in August and officially take his post the next month, at which time ... More >>

Pen Pals: Tony Kushner

Welcome to the tundra: Jeremy Cohen joins the Playwrights' Center​The Playwrights' Center announces today the hiring of Jeremy B. Cohen as Producing Artistic Director (the second in PWC history), slated to move to the Twin Cities in August and officially take his post the next month, at which time ... More >>

Fringe By Numbers, Day Four: "Systems: A Literal Interpretation of the Fourth Wall"

Welcome to the tundra: Jeremy Cohen joins the Playwrights' Center​The Playwrights' Center announces today the hiring of Jeremy B. Cohen as Producing Artistic Director (the second in PWC history), slated to move to the Twin Cities in August and officially take his post the next month, at which time ... More >>

RENT at the Ordway

Welcome to the tundra: Jeremy Cohen joins the Playwrights' Center​The Playwrights' Center announces today the hiring of Jeremy B. Cohen as Producing Artistic Director (the second in PWC history), slated to move to the Twin Cities in August and officially take his post the next month, at which time ... More >>

Spirit in the House Festival

Welcome to the tundra: Jeremy Cohen joins the Playwrights' Center​The Playwrights' Center announces today the hiring of Jeremy B. Cohen as Producing Artistic Director (the second in PWC history), slated to move to the Twin Cities in August and officially take his post the next month, at which time ... More >>

Chicago loves Craig Wright's Grace

Welcome to the tundra: Jeremy Cohen joins the Playwrights' Center​The Playwrights' Center announces today the hiring of Jeremy B. Cohen as Producing Artistic Director (the second in PWC history), slated to move to the Twin Cities in August and officially take his post the next month, at which time ... More >>

Backstage Drama

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

Playwrights' Center creates National Advisory Board

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

If They Can Make it There, They'll Make it Anywhere

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

The Year in Theater

They laughed. They cried. They used the "F" word. They wore funny wigs... and we were there

Surrender To Santa

In praise of two not-quite Christmas shows

The Birds And The Bees

Theatre in the round buzzes; the Guthrie announces another manly season

The Gods And Small Things

Craig Lucas sends six characters in search of a tragedy

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?

End of the Affair

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?

Curtain Call

Remembering Playwright Todd Irvine; Praising Actor Edwin Strout

Inside The C.I.A.

Trying to Crack the Secret of Staging Your Own Show? Talk to the Center for Independent Artists.

Bring the Pain

Neil LaBute's theater of cruelty

The Trouper

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

The Adventures of Kira Obolensky

The author of the Adventures of Herculina may have stumbled upon her career, but the results are anything but awkward

Digital Drama

The author of the Adventures of Herculina may have stumbled upon her career, but the results are anything but awkward

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

Drama Queen

The amazing Jodi Kellogg changes her parts more often than most people change their socks. Who is she this time?

Exciting Foreplay

The amazing Jodi Kellogg changes her parts more often than most people change their socks. Who is she this time?

Righting the Play

A series of workshops at the Playwrights' Center strips the dramatic process down to author, script, actor, and audience

A Hero's Welcome

Ajax scours the body politic in search of a conscience; The Chairs discovers the seat of all meaninglessness

Dramatis Personae

Ajax scours the body politic in search of a conscience; The Chairs discovers the seat of all meaninglessness

Merry XXXmas

With her comic new play, Minneapolis writer Bridget Carpenter gives new meaning to the term "Blue Christmas"

Randy Rowoldt

He built a pair of wings for Shirley MacLaine, now he's showing us his closet

Natural High

You are the wind beneath my wings: Otto Lilienthal (Brian Baumgartner), a German flight pioneer, inspires the Wright brothers in Hidden Theatre's Disturbed by the Wind.

Gilded Lily

Crying in the Chapel: Eric Bogosian's "Bitter Sauce" interprets Shakespeare's Sonnet 118 in Love's Fire: Fresh Numbers by Seven American Playwrights.

Mending Fences

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

Shakespearean Tabloid

Desdemona: a play about a handkerchief