Workshop March 10-12
Public Reading March 12 - 3pm

A young woman is torn between her father (a preacher with a focus on beer, women, and guns) and her best friend (a mysterious, religiously uncommitted woman who believes that air-conditioning is the key to a modern church's success).  A dark meditation on love, religion, and forgiveness.

A Roundtable Reading is a fascinating hands-on cold-reading experience available to all member playwrights of the Playwrights' Center (based on availability). It's a great way for playwrights to gain a rare understanding of their script's performance power with the help of talented Twin Cities actors and a professional dramaturg. Event time is 6:30 pm.  The readings are free and open to the public.

A Roundtable Reading is a fascinating hands-on cold-reading experience available to all member playwrights of the Playwrights' Center (based on availability). It's a great way for playwrights to gain a rare understanding of their script's performance power with the help of talented Twin Cities actors and a professional dramaturg. Event time is 6:30 pm.  The readings are free and open to the public.

Workshop March 29-31 
Public Reading March 31 - 7pm

Once devoted housewife and mother, Sadie May Jenkins now lives as a reclusive outcast in a netherworld inside the ghetto of Houston, Texas . When she receives a visit from a troubled runaway girl, she discovers that the lost soul she’s trying to save maybe her own.

When Claudine meets Henry, a starving artist, she falls head over heels. Her mother, a financial guru, has her doubts. Is Henry everything her daughter has been looking for? Or is he after only one thing? A modern day adaptation of Henry James’ Washington Square, RICH GIRL is about women and their relationship to men, mothers and money –in that order.

When Claudine meets Henry, a starving artist, she falls head over heels. Her mother, a financial guru, has her doubts. Is Henry everything her daughter has been looking for? Or is he after only one thing? A modern day adaptation of Henry James’ Washington Square, RICH GIRL is about women and their relationship to men, mothers and money –in that order.

A Roundtable Reading is a fascinating hands-on cold-reading experience available to all member playwrights of the Playwrights' Center (based on availability). It's a great way for playwrights to gain a rare understanding of their script's performance power with the help of talented Twin Cities actors and a professional dramaturg. Event time is 6:30 pm.  The readings are free and open to the public.

A Roundtable Reading is a fascinating hands-on cold-reading experience available to all member playwrights of the Playwrights' Center (based on availability). It's a great way for playwrights to gain a rare understanding of their script's performance power with the help of talented Twin Cities actors and a professional dramaturg. Event time is 6:30 pm.  The readings are free and open to the public.

After his father disappears, 10-year-old Martin believes he can hear the Voice of God. When a mysterious man from the mayor’s office arrives selling The Project, Martin sees a way to find his missing father and bring himself closer to the Lord. LITTLE EYES is a darkly funny exploration of American fear, denial and religious fundamentalism in the months right after 9/11.

The Ruth Easton New Play Series is the public face of the Ruth Easton Lab, an exciting selection of new plays from the Center's Core Writers. Each play is lovingly prepared in the Lab with the help of the nation's top directors and the Twin Cities' sharpest actors, and brought to the public for an exclusive sneak peek into the theater of tomorrow.