PlayLabs 2014 continues Tuesday, October 21 with a reading of The Absence of Weather by Core Writer Ken Urban at 7 p.m. The second reading of The Absence of Weather is Saturday, October 25 at 1 p.m. We talked with Ken about the play
... read morePlayLabs 2014 kicks off with a reading of Cocked by Core Writer Sarah Gubbins on Monday, October 20 at 7 p.m. The second reading of Cocked is Friday, October 24 at 7 p.m. Reserve your seats here. We talked
... read morePlaywright Sibyl Kempson, who was the 2013-14 McKnight National Residency and Commission Fellow at the Playwrights' Center, has been awarded a 2014 United States Artists Rockefeller Fellowship.
Representing eight creative disciplines, each
... read moreLAKE UNTERSEE by Joe Waechter
Workhaus Collective, Minneapolis, MN
September 11 – 27, 2014
World premiere. Rocky, a troubled teenager, longs to leave his divorced
... read moreIn addition to the nearly 50 workshops we do each year with our fellows and Core Writers, the Playwrights' Center partners with several theaters and organizations on development work.
This summer the Playwrights’ Center started the workshop
... read moreFor the first time, the history of the Playwrights’ Center is on display in the University of Minnesota’s Performing Arts Archive. Materials from the last 43 years, including programs, flyers, press
... read moreSamuel D. Hunter, a Core Writer at the Playwrights’ Center from 2011 to 2014, has been awarded a MacArthur Fellowship, commonly called the “genius grant.”
According to the MacArthur Foundation, “The MacArthur Fellows Program awards unrestricted
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