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Jeremy B. Cohen will become the Minneapolis-based Playwrights' Center's second Producing Artistic Director in the history of the organization. Cohen currently serves as the Associate Artistic Directo...

An initial list of productions scheduled to be presented during The 2010 Minnesota Fringe Festival has been released. The Festival will run August 5-15 at venues throughout Minneapolis. The selectio...

The Playwrights Center in Minneapolis has awarded the McKnight National Residency and Commission to Obie Award-winning writer and performer Taylor Mac. He will receive a $12,500 commission plus additi...

What's in a Mame?

Gretchen Egolf will play Blanche DuBois, joining the previously announced Ricardo Antonio Chavira (Stanley Kowalski), in Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire, to run July 3 - August 29 on the ...

The Guthrie Theater has announced its 2010-2011 season. As previously reported, the year will open with the world premiere of Marsha Norman's The Master Butchers Singing Club. Francesca Zambello wil...

After the success of last year's Tales of Rashomon, Green T productions again partners with Mixed Blood Theatre for Pinocchio-chan (May 6 - 16). Told through traditional Japanese music and dance, this play for young audiences tells the story of a wooden puppet who wants to be a real boy. Meanwhile, SteppingStone Theatre presents The Magic Pot: Three Tales From China (May 7 - 23), a collaboration with New York City's TADA! Youth Theater.

Ten Thousand Things has announced the productions for its 2010-11 season, as well as partial casting. The season will kick off with a production of Pedro Calderon de la Barca's Life Is a Dream, dire...

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