The Playwrights’ Center launched its first detailed look at its 50th Anniversary Season last night with its Taste of the Season preview. While in normal times, the Taste of the Season has served as an in-person, hybrid fundraiser and preview, due to ongoing public health conditions it went online this year:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtrTZ4J_WEA&ab_channel=pwcenter

The virtual event included encounters with PWC Artistic Director Jeremy Coehen and four affiliated playwrights: Kristoffer Diaz, Mathilde Dratwa, Carson Kreitzer, and TyLie Shider.

The Taste of the Season preview included a glimpse at four playwrights with work under development through the Playwrights’ Center.

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2021-2022 Season

Ruth Easton New Play Series (October 2021–February 2022)

Now entering its 17th year, the Ruth Easton New Play Series will feature five featured and Affiliated Writers workshopping their new plays over a 30-hour development process.

Timebomb by Carson Kreitzer
This Happened Once at the Romance Depot Off the I-87 in Westchester by Gina Femia
Whittier by TyLie Shider
Decoys by Gracie Gardner
Tha Chink-Mart by Ray Yamanouchi

In the Lab (March 2022)

In The Lab, launched last season to meet the changing needs of artists exploring new works — and new ways of working — lets artists develop wildly experimental new works in a multitude of forms. It is presented as an online development and performance project series.

Traces by Rachel Jendrzejewski
Things with Friends an audio experience by Kristoffer Diaz

Playlabs Festival (April–May 2022)

The 38th PlayLabs festival offers playwrights receive 36 hours of rehearsal time, two public readings, and time for rewrites in-between. This year’s festival will also showcase scenes by 2021-2022 PWC playwriting fellows.

Dirty Laundry by Mathilde Dratwa
The Percy Meacham Dance Experience by Darren Canady
Trapt by Stacey Rose
beats and lyrics by Zion “No!z” Rose
PlayLabs Playwriting Fellows Showcase

Artists in Conversation

An intimate look at playwrights and their processes launched in 2020, this program builds on the PWC’s successful Public Discussion series. Artists in Conversation allows audiences direct access to artists who share their behind-the-scenes thoughts on process, the craft, the field, and the world. Past conversations have featured acclaimed theater artists such as Migdalia Cruz, Heather Raffo, Daniel Alexander Jones, José Rivera, and Paula Vogel, among others.

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Amy Donahue is a staff reviewer at the Twin Cities Arts Reader. She interned with the magazine during the summer of 2017, served as a guest contributor while studying abroad in Europe that fall, and has moved up to regular old reviewing. She served as interim Editor-in-Chief in 2023.

She admits to being at least 50% terrified of contemporary German opera.