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Theatrical Plays

  • Arts

    December 5, 2012

    Martin McDonagh delves into dark relationships

    The Irish playwright's The Cripple of Inishman and A Behanding in Spokane bring shocking imagery and twists

  • Calendar

    November 28, 2012

    A Behanding in Spokane

    The Irish playwright's The Cripple of Inishman and A Behanding in Spokane bring shocking imagery and twists

  • Arts

    October 31, 2012

    Company commands the stage

    Dieter Bierbrauer leads another strong Theater Latte Da production

  • Arts

    October 24, 2012

    Hidebound at In the Heart of the Beast

    Dieter Bierbrauer leads another strong Theater Latte Da production

  • Calendar

    October 17, 2012

    Speed-the-Plow

    Dieter Bierbrauer leads another strong Theater Latte Da production

  • Arts

    September 19, 2012

    Eurydice at Pillsbury House

    The modernized play deals with life, death, and heartbreak for two lovers

  • Calendar

    August 22, 2012

    Previews

    The modernized play deals with life, death, and heartbreak for two lovers

  • Calendar

    August 15, 2012

    Outside Providence

    The modernized play deals with life, death, and heartbreak for two lovers

  • Calendar

    July 4, 2012

    The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)

    The modernized play deals with life, death, and heartbreak for two lovers

  • Calendar

    May 30, 2012

    Care Enough

    The modernized play deals with life, death, and heartbreak for two lovers

  • Calendar

    May 9, 2012

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

    The modernized play deals with life, death, and heartbreak for two lovers

  • Calendar

    April 25, 2012

    Doubt

    The modernized play deals with life, death, and heartbreak for two lovers

  • Arts

    March 7, 2012

    The Birds at the Guthrie

    Play is really nothing to crow about

  • Calendar

    October 19, 2011

    The Burial at Thebes

    Play is really nothing to crow about

  • Calendar

    October 12, 2011

    Hunter Gatherers

    Play is really nothing to crow about

  • Calendar

    August 17, 2011

    Parallel Lives

    Play is really nothing to crow about

  • Calendar

    July 6, 2011

    Street Scene

    Play is really nothing to crow about

  • Calendar

    June 29, 2011

    Shakespeare Smash!

    Play is really nothing to crow about

  • Calendar

    June 1, 2011

    God of Carnage

    Play is really nothing to crow about

  • Arts

    May 25, 2011

    One for the Road at Bryant-Lake Bowl

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

  • Calendar

    May 18, 2011

    One for the Road

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

  • Calendar

    May 4, 2011

    Next To Normal

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

  • Calendar

    March 2, 2011

    Heroes

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

  • Calendar

    February 23, 2011

    Song of Extinction

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

  • Blogs

    June 29, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    May 27, 2010

    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 >>

  • Calendar

    February 25, 2009

    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 >>

  • Calendar

    January 28, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    August 10, 2008

    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 >>

  • Calendar

    May 21, 2008

    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 >>

  • Arts

    August 22, 2007

    Breaking All the Rules

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

  • Arts

    December 6, 2006

    Spotlight: Waiting for Godot

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

  • Blogs

    February 3, 2006

    Chicago loves Craig Wright's Grace

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

  • Arts

    July 13, 2005

    Backstage Drama

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

  • Blogs

    June 13, 2005

    Playwrights' Center creates National Advisory Board

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

  • Arts

    March 31, 2004

    The Birds And The Bees

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

  • Arts

    June 18, 2003

    The Gods And Small Things

    Craig Lucas sends six characters in search of a tragedy

  • News

    March 19, 2003

    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?

  • Arts

    October 10, 2001

    Happily Ever After

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

  • Arts

    April 18, 2001

    Bring the Pain

    Neil LaBute's theater of cruelty

  • Arts

    November 8, 2000

    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

  • Arts

    April 28, 1999

    Exciting Foreplay

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

  • Arts

    April 7, 1999

    Righting the Play

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

  • Arts

    February 10, 1999

    A Hero's Welcome

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

  • Arts

    November 25, 1998

    The Wilde One

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

  • Arts

    October 21, 1998

    Merry XXXmas

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

  • Arts

    March 25, 1998

    The Misanthrope

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

  • Arts

    January 14, 1998

    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.

  • Arts

    June 11, 1997

    The Last Talley

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

  • Arts

    May 21, 1997

    Mending Fences

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

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