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Pillsbury House + Theatre and Exposed Brick Theatre are thrilled to come together to present Christopher Chen’s deeply humane, poignant, and affecting drama, PASSAGE. Set in the fictional Country X, a neocolonial client of Country Y, PASSAGE examines colonialism, power, and how societal imbalances affect interpersonal dynamics through the story of B, a local doctor, and F, … Read more…

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We’re welcoming back acclaimed playwright Sharon Bridgforth for the world premiere of her newest work bull-jean / we wake, a new performance installation and invitation staged by PH+T Associate Company Member Daniel Alexander Jones with a stellar team of collaborators featuring Aimee K. Bryant and Omi Osun Joni L. Jones. Building upon the visions realized during the December 2021 … Read more…
Pillsbury House + Theatre and Pangea World Theater are excited to be partnering to present Black Dance Improvisation Festival, the newest in visionary Black Dance Artist Leslie Parker’s multi-year body of work titled Call to Remember.
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Pillsbury House + Theatre is excited to announce the world premiere of award-winning playwright Benjamin Benne’s What / Washed Ashore / Astray, performing March 17 through April 16, 2023!
This poetic and sensory play follows the reunion of twin sisters Cat and Chris at a cabin on the Pacific Northwest shoreline after it becomes apparent one of them will die within the year. Surrounded by the passage of time and the rhythm of … Read more…
Pillsbury House + Theatre is thrilled to announce the bull-jean stories, the first show of the 2023 season, performing January 12 through February 5, 2023. Continuing a series of Windham-Campbell prize winner Sharon Bridgforth’s work at PH+T, the bull-jean stories stars Ivey award winner and PH+T Resident Teaching Artist Aimee K. Bryant as she embodies a variety of characters that invite audiences to travel through the warm, hilarious, and … Read more…
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Past Seasons
- Yacub: Mad Scientist or Genius? by Homer Jackson director Ralph Remington 2/92
- Statements After an Arrest Under the Immorality Act by Athol Fugard director Ralph R. 7/92
- Gerry Girouard Dancers in The Shadows of the Diamond Realm 7/92
- Danny and the Deep Blue Sea by John Patrick Shanley director Ralph Remington 1/93
- Slow Dance on the Killing Ground by William Hanley director Ralph Remington 3/93
- Power Tools by Xavier Leonard director Ralph Remington 6/93
- The Taking of Miss Janie by Ed Bullins director Ralph Remington 9/93
- Azande in Les Mannequins by Azande director Azande 9/93
- The Colors of Desire by Alexs Pate and David Mura director Ralph Remington 2/94
- Savage in Limbo by John Patrick Shanley director Ralph Remington 3/94
- Thoughts from a Cultural Revolutionary by Ralph Remington director Ralph Remington 4/94
- Combination Skin by Lisa Jones director Dawn Renee Jones 7/94
- MultiCultiBoho Sideshow by Alexs Pate director Ralph Remington 11/94
- This City of Dreams by Walter Allen Bennett,Jr. director Ralph Remington 3/95 9/95
- The Hittite Empire in Undersiege Stories by the Hittite Empire 6/95
- The Punic Wars by Sirius B 7/95
- Extremities by William Mastrosimone director Ralph Remington 3/96
- Sexual Perversity in Chicago by David Mamet director Dwight Callaway 8/96
- Bring the Children Home by Marci Rendon directors Noël Raymond & Heidi Hunter Batz 9/96
- Streamers by David Rabe director Noël Raymond 2/97
- Women of Manhattan by John Patrick Shanley director Ralph Remington 7/97
- The Brunette Breck Girl by Heidi Arnesan director Heidi Arnesan 7/97
- Burn This by Lanford Wilson director Ralph Remington 10/97
- The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window by Lorraine Hansberry directors D. Callaway & Ralph R. 2/98
- Where I’m At conceived, developed and directed by Heidi Hunter Batz 3/98
- Dutchman by LeRoi Jones director Brian Goranson 6/98
- A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams director Leah C. Gardiner 2/99
- Shelter (staged reading) by Dwight Hobbes director Ralph Remington 6/99
- Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches by Tony Kushner director Noël Raymond 2/00
- The House That Crack Built by Djola Branner director Heidi Hunter Batz 10/00
- Angels in America, Part Two: Perestroika by Tony Kushner director Noël Raymond 3/01
- The Gimmick by Dael Orlandersmith director Sharon Walton 7/01
- Mr. Bundy by Jane Martin director Faye Price and Sari Ketter 3/02
- The Bi Show (in collaboration with Mama Mosaic) director Noël Raymond 5/02
- Boesman and Lena by Athol Fugard director Noël Raymond 10/02
- [sic] by Melissa James Gibson director Noël Raymond 2/03
- Evidence of Silence Broken (in collaboration with Tru Ruts Endeavors) director Daniel Alexander Jones 4/03
- Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train by Stephen Adly Guirgis director Stephen DiMenna 10/03
- Far Away by Caryl Churchill director Noël Raymond 3/04
- Talking Masks (in collaboration with Carlyle Brown and Company) director Carlyle Brown 5/04
- Bel Canto by Daniel Alexander Jones director Stephen DiMenna 10/04
- The Story by Tracey Scott Wilson director Sharon Walton 3/05
- Hot Comb by Kimberly Joy Morgan director Dr. Tawnya Pettiford-Wates 5/05
- An Almost Holy Picture by Heather McDonald director Noël Raymond 9/05
- Hot Comb ’06 director Dr. Tawnya Pettiford-Wates 1/06
- Phoenix Fabrik director Daniel Alexander Jones 6/06
- Bugby Tracey Letts director Stephen DiMenna 10/06
- Underneath the Lintelby Glen Berger director Noël Raymond 2/07
- Lowby Rha Goddess director Chay Yew 6/07
- Home by Samm-Art Williams director Marion McClinton 10/07
- Same Differenceby Samuel G. Roberson, Jr. director Anton Jones 2/08
- Other by the Breaking Ice Company director Heidi Hunter Batz 3/08
- Bulrusher by Eisa Davis director Marion McClinton 5/08
- Blackbird by David Harrower director Stephen DiMenna 10/08
- No Child by Nilaja Sun director Noël Raymond 2/09
- Playlist by Aditi Brennan Kapil and the Breaking Ice Company director Heidi Hunter Batz 5/09
- King of Shadows by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa director Randy Reyes 10/09
- No Child ’10 by NIlaja Sun director Noel Raymond 2/10
- Pa’s Hat by Cori Thomas director Marion McClinton 5/10
- Vigil by Morris Panych director Stephen DiMenna 9/10
- Broke-ology by Nathan Louis Jackson director James A. Williams 3/11
- In the Red and Brown Water by Tarell Alvin McCraney director Marion McClinton, produced in partnership with The Mount Curve Company in the Dowling Studio at the Guthrie Theater, 5/11
- The Pride by Alexi Kaye Campbell, director Noël Raymond, 10/11
- Buzzer by Tracey Scott Wilson, director Marion McClinton, 2/12
- Jomama Jones: Radiate Live! created by Daniel Alexander Jones in collaboration with Bobby Halvorson, 6/12
- The Brothers Size by Tarell Alvin McCraney, directed Marion McClinton, produced in partnership with The Mount Curve Company in the Dowling Studio at the Guthrie Theater, 9/12
- Buzzer by Tracey Scott Wilson, director Marion McClinton, produced in the Dowling Studio at the Guthrie Theater, 2/13
- River See by Sharon Bridgforth, featuring Sonja Parks, 4/13
- the road weeps, the well runs dry by Marcus Gardley, directed by Marion McClinton, 10/13
- Gidion’s Knot by Johnna Adams, directed by Noël Raymond, 3/14
- Mercy Killers written and performed by Michael Milligan, 4/14
- Marcus; or the Secret of Sweet by Tarell Alvin McCraney, directed Marion McClinton, produced in partnership with The Mount Curve Company in the Dowling Studio at the Guthrie Theater, 9/14
- Death Tax by Lucas Hnath, directed by Hayley Finn, 3/15
- The Gospel of Lovingkindness by Marcus Gardley, directed by Marion McClinton, 6/15
- Prep by Tracey Scott Wilson, directed by Noël Raymond, 9/15
- Bright Half Life by Tanya Barfield, directed by Ellen Fenster, 2/16
- Scapegoat by Christina M. Ham, directed by Marion McClinton, 6/16
- The Children by Michael Elyanow, directed by Noel Raymond, 10/16
- The Great Divide: Plays for a Broken Nation by Benjamin Benne, Alan Berks, Christina M. Ham, Katie Ka Vang and James A. Williams, directed by Ellen Fenster, music by DJ Chamun, 4/17
- Pike St by Nilaja Sun, directed by Ron Russell, 6/17
- ≈[almost equal to] by Jonas Hassen Khemiri, directed by Noel Raymond, 10/17
- The Great Divide II: Plays on the Politics of Truth by Christina Ham, Jessica Huang, Tim J. Lord, Stacey Rose, and Andrew Rosendorf, directed by Noël Raymond, music by DJ Chamun, 3/18
- dat Black Mermaid Man Lady / The Show by Sharon Bridgforth, directed by Ebony Noelle Golden, 6/18
- West of Central by Christina Ham, directed by Hayley Finn, 9/18
- She Persists: The Great Divide III by Cristina Florencia Castro, Casey Llewellyn, Oya Mae Duchess-Davis, Philana Omorotionmwan & Aamera Siddiqui, directed by Noël Raymond, 3/19
- Blood Knot by Athol Fugard, directed by Marion McClinton, 5/19
- Jimmy & Lorraine: A Musing by Talvin Wilks, directed by Brian Jennings, 9/19
- Renegade-ism: Artists on the Edge, featuring Monkeybear’s Harmolodic Workshop, Leslie Parker with Collaborators Amara T. Smith and mayfield brooks, and Blackout Improv, 2/20
- Flip the Script: The Great Divide IV, audio plays by Alan Berks, Cristina Florencia Castro, Andrew Rosendorf & Aamera Siddiqui, Directed by Noël Raymond, 10/20
- Fannie Lou Hamer: Speak on it by Cheryl L. West, Directed by signe V. Harriday, 10/20
- Breaking Ice 3/21
- What to Send Up When It Goes Down by Aleshea Harris, Directed by Signe V. Harriday, 8/21 & 10/21
- Charlie (Brown) Black by Mikell Sapp, Directed by Talvin Wilks, 5/22
- The Lorraine Hansberry Initiative’s ‘To Sit Awhile’ with work contributed by Tracey Williams-Dillard, Sharon Bridgforth, Vinecia Coleman, Andrea Jenkins, Ayaan Nataala, Za’Nia Coleman, the Audacious Artist Cohort and more, 8/22
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