The cast of Scapegoat (left-to-right): Dan Hopman, Regina Marie Williams, James A. Williams, Jennifer Blagen. Photo by Bruce Silcox. The world premiere of Scapegoat, a new play by Christina M. Ham, opened this past weekend at Pillsbury House Theatre. The play is based upon the 1919 massacre of a group of black

Photo by Keri Pickett. Trouble in Mind, which opened this past weekend at the Guthrie Theater, is a humorous and gripping play that is not often produced. The author, Alice Childress, was an African-American actress whose notoriety as a “left-wing” playwright merited her own FBI investigative file in the 1950s. The

Luigi Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of an Author is the sort of play that textbook writers love to come across. When it premiered in Rome in 1921, audiences shocked by its content and unorthodox approach to storytelling voiced themselves very loudly. "Madhouse!" was one of the more polite things yelled across

Ryan Shams (Dr. Sanderson), David Kelly (Elwood P. Dowd), Ashley Rose Montondo (Nurse Kelly) and Tyson Forbes (Duane Wilson) in the Guthrie Theater’s production of Harvey. Photo by T. Charles Erickson. The title character in Harvey, which opened this weekend at the Guthrie Theatre, is a six-foot, white invisible rabbit.  Mary Chase’s play

Photo by George Byron Griffiths. Buyer & Cellar, a play by Jonathan Tolins that Variety called "Absolutely delicious!", concerns an out-of-work gay actor getting a “dream job” working as a store clerk in a shopping mall – a mall that just happens to be located in the basement of Barbara Streisand’s Malibu home.