The Playwrights' Center

NOTE: The Playwrights’ Center does not list shows/events presented by companies renting the Waring Jones Theater. For information on rental productions, please contact the producing company directly.

To view a listing of current and upcoming productions authored by Center members, visit Member Work on Stage.

May
2008

• Thursday, May 15
Permanence Collection
Inspired by works of art in the Walker’s permanent collection, Permanence Collection by Kira Obolensky and Ed Bok Lee, is a humorous, elliptical and ironic exploration of class and the ways in which we attempt the impossible transformation of our realities into works of art. Listen in as this short play comes to life through actors stationed amongst the artworks. Two nights only (May 8 & May 15).

7 pm and 8pm - FREE
Copresented with Walker Art Center
at the Walker Art Center, 1750 Hennepin Ave, Minneapolis

• Monday, May 19
Ruth Easton New Play Series:
Core playwrights team up with top directors and Equity actors to present their freshest work.

When We Go Upon the Sea by Lee Blessing
A man named George Bush arrives one evening in The Hague, Netherlands, where he faces the difficult task of going on trial the next day. Before that however, he has an equally difficult job: getting through the night.

7:30 pm
The Guthrie Theater's Dowling Studio (9th Floor)
818 South 2nd Street, Minneapolis

Tickets ($10) for this reading can be ordered through the Guthrie box office at (612) 377-2224.

June
2008

• Monday, June 2
Jerome Many Voices Showcase
An exciting evening of fresh works from the 2007-08 Many Voices fellows, local writers of color who have completed a year of development and writing at the Center.

7 pm - FREE

• Monday, June 9
Pizza Lucé Roundtable Series - FREE
7 p.m.
Monologue Festival
An evening of monologues hot off the presses read by some of the Cities' finest actors.

After the reading, head across the street to Pizza Lucé and show your roundtable program for a FREE slice of their award-winning pizza!

• June 13-28, 2008

The Workhaus Collective presents

SadGrrl13
a new play by Cory Hinkle
directed and designed by Jeremy Wilhelm

As Dick Jones works out of his basement to save America’s children from online predators, a journalist fed up with sensational news reporting goes undercover to expose Dick’s true desires. A collision of Jacobean drama, contemporary visual art and transcripts from Internet chatrooms, SadGrrl13 is a dangerous tale of average Americans who believe that revenge is the same as justice.

Fri June 13, 8pm (preview)
Sat June 14, 8pm (opening)
Sun June 15, 8pm

Thu June 19, 8pm (Gala night: $35/$50 per couple)
Fri June 20, 8pm
Sat June 21, 8pm
Mon June 23, 8pm (Industry night - pay what you can)

Thu June 26, 8pm
Fri June 27, 8pm
Sat June 28, 8pm

Tickets: $8-15
Call 612-332-7481 x20

For more information visit workhauscollective.org
Get involved with the story at myspace.com/sadgrrl13

The 2007-08 PIZZA LUCÉ ROUNDTABLE READING SERIES
A Roundtable Reading is a fascinating hands-on cold-reading experience, a great way for playwrights to gain a better understanding of their script's performance power with the help of talented Twin Cities actors and attentive audiences. Roundtable readings take place in the Center's Waring Jones Theater at 6:30 pm on select Monday nights from September through June.

• Monday, June 16th
Pizza Lucé Roundtable Series - FREE
6:30 p.m.
Beyond the Owing
by Malachy Walsh
It’s Easter and Liz has come home with her fiancé Sutton to put the finishing touches on their wedding plans. But with a hole in the roof and a debt to be paid for chasing a dream, more than money must change hands as the question is raised: Who owes who? And for what?

After the reading, head across the street to Pizza Lucé and show your roundtable program for a FREE slice of their award-winning pizza!

July
2008

• Wednesday-Sunday, July 16-20
The 26th Annual PlayLabs Festival

5 of the most exciting new plays in America. Full details now available on our PlayLabs page