Theatrical Plays

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

Doubt

The Birthday Party

The Birds at the Guthrie

Play is really nothing to crow about

Twin Cities' best plays of 2011

Hairspray, Doubt, On the Spectrum, and more

The Burial at Thebes

Hairspray, Doubt, On the Spectrum, and more

Hunter Gatherers

Hairspray, Doubt, On the Spectrum, and more

Parallel Lives

Hairspray, Doubt, On the Spectrum, and more

Waiting for Godot

Hairspray, Doubt, On the Spectrum, and more

Street Scene

Hairspray, Doubt, On the Spectrum, and more

Shakespeare Smash!

Hairspray, Doubt, On the Spectrum, and more

God of Carnage

Hairspray, Doubt, On the Spectrum, and more

One for the Road at Bryant-Lake Bowl

Harold Pinter's dark play subjects family to "enhanced interrogation"

One for the Road

Harold Pinter's dark play subjects family to "enhanced interrogation"

Next To Normal

Harold Pinter's dark play subjects family to "enhanced interrogation"

Heroes

Harold Pinter's dark play subjects family to "enhanced interrogation"

Song of Extinction

Harold Pinter's dark play subjects family to "enhanced interrogation"

Pillsbury House Theatre hosts late night series

Photo courtesy Pillsbury House Theatre Stacy Karen Robinson​Looking for a different theatrical experience? Do you want food with that? For the 13th year, curators Laurie Carlos and e.g. bailey bring Non English Speaking Spoken Here: The Late Night Series to the Pillsbury House Theatre in M ... 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 >>

Regina Taylor trilogy gets first peek at Playwrights' Center

Playwright and actor Regina Taylor​The Playwrights' Center is partnering up with the Goodman Theatre in presenting staged readings of a new trilogy of works by Regina Taylor called The Trinity River Plays. The readings, which are free and open to the public, take place tonight and tomorrow night. ... More >>

Playwrights' Center Reading: The Three Christs of Yspilanti

Playwright and actor Regina Taylor​The Playwrights' Center is partnering up with the Goodman Theatre in presenting staged readings of a new trilogy of works by Regina Taylor called The Trinity River Plays. The readings, which are free and open to the public, take place tonight and tomorrow night. ... More >>

Pen Pals: Tony Kushner

Playwright and actor Regina Taylor​The Playwrights' Center is partnering up with the Goodman Theatre in presenting staged readings of a new trilogy of works by Regina Taylor called The Trinity River Plays. The readings, which are free and open to the public, take place tonight and tomorrow night. ... More >>

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

Playwright and actor Regina Taylor​The Playwrights' Center is partnering up with the Goodman Theatre in presenting staged readings of a new trilogy of works by Regina Taylor called The Trinity River Plays. The readings, which are free and open to the public, take place tonight and tomorrow night. ... More >>

2008 Fresh Ink Series: and they said I wouldn't make it

Playwright and actor Regina Taylor​The Playwrights' Center is partnering up with the Goodman Theatre in presenting staged readings of a new trilogy of works by Regina Taylor called The Trinity River Plays. The readings, which are free and open to the public, take place tonight and tomorrow night. ... More >>

Spirit in the House Festival

Playwright and actor Regina Taylor​The Playwrights' Center is partnering up with the Goodman Theatre in presenting staged readings of a new trilogy of works by Regina Taylor called The Trinity River Plays. The readings, which are free and open to the public, take place tonight and tomorrow night. ... More >>

Breaking All the Rules

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

Spotlight: Waiting for Godot

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

Chicago loves Craig Wright's Grace

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

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?

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?

The Crucifix

Arthur Miller's 'Resurrection Blues' nails society's sins

Happily Ever After

Onetime Mardi Gras queen and current avant-garde playwright Lisa D'Amour looks for the sinister side of our fairy tales

Bring the Pain

Neil LaBute's theater of cruelty

J'amuse

The Ministry of Cultural Warfare issues a manifesto for revolutionary sketch comedy: If all art is political, stay away from lousy politics

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

Exciting Foreplay

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

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

The Wilde One

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"

The Misanthrope

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

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.

The Last Talley

Attention Ragstock Shoppers: '70s styling in Lanford Wilson's Fifth of July

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

Love & Faxes

Desdemona: a play about a handkerchief

Femmey Fracas

Desdemona: a play about a handkerchief