Works by Arnold Bennett, Rachel Crothers, Teresa Deevy Set for Mint Theater’s 2011 Season

The Mint Theater Company has announced the lineup of plays that it will present during 2011.

The company will begin the year with Arnold Bennett’s comedy, What the Public Wants, to run January 13 – March 13. Matthew Arbour will direct the 1909 satire about tabloid journalism.

Also on the company’s schedule is Rachel Crothers’ A Little Journey, which will run May 5 – July 3. This piece, a nominee for the first Pulitzer Prize for Drama, tells the story of a disillusioned young woman whose money and luck have run out, who discovers an unexpected second chance just as she’s about to leave New York. Jackson Gay will direct the production.

The Mint will also continue its exploration of plays by Irish playwright Teresa Deevy with a production of Temporal Powers in July. Jonathan Bank, who directed the company’s revival of Deevy’s Wife to James Whelan, will stage this work which won the Abbey Playwriting competition in 1932.