When I was in New York City a few months ago , I saw signs for the Broadway revival of Joe Turner's Come and Gone , with some big names ...

#TCTheater veteran actor James Craven starred in Jungle Theater's production of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Driving Miss Daisy in 2...

Although it premiered over 30 years ago, the play Marisol by Puerto Rican playwright José Rivera feels like it was written for today. It...

Last weekend, I saw four plays written by women. The first three were by living playwrights ( Grace McLean's musical In the Green , Laur...

For two years, the artists in Penumbra Theatre's Ashe Lab Residency program have been working together to create a new work of theater/m...

The History Theatre original play Not in Our Neighborhood was scheduled to run in rep with Not for Sale in March 2020. We know how that st...

Last night I posted on Instagram : "I know nothing about this play, but there's no one with whom I'd rather experience Shakes...

For the first time in their long and celebrated histories, #TCTheater's African American and Asian American theaters (Penumbra and Mu)...

I've learned more about boxing from #TCTheater this month that I ever knew before! But of course, like Illusion Theater's world pr...

Jitney is the first play in the so-called "Century Cycle" that August Wilson wrote, but, set in the '70s, it's the 8th...

"If this isn't nice, I don't know what the hell is." This quote by American author Kurt Vonnegut  is also a line in Cana...

A year ago Penumbra Theatre presented Dominique Morisseau's play Detroit '67 , set during the riots that occurred in that time and...

What do you get when you combine a talented young playwright, an excellent cast that includes five up-and-coming actors and two beloved ve...

You know a play titled Pussy Valley is going to be on the edge, not your typical evening at the theater. And boy does it deliver! Mixed B...

It seems entirely appropriate that on the 50th anniversary of the march in Selma , I attended a play about Thurgood Marshall . While Marti...

Last night was the highlight of the theater year - the Ivey Awards. Celebrating its tenth anniversary, the Iveys honor a dozen or so indiv...

Most people are familiar with the 1989 Oscar-winning hit movie Driving Miss Daisy , starring Jessica Tandy and Morgan Freeman. But perhaps...

There's a new theater project called " Launching New Plays into the Repertoire ," led by The Lark Play Development Center in...

I saw my first August Wilson play earlier this year, Penumbra Theatre's production of Ma Rainey's Black Bottom   at the Guthrie.  I...

August Wilson wrote ten plays about the African-American experience, each covering one decade in the 20th century.  He lived in St. Paul fo...