Author: Mari Wittenbreer

The Children at Pillsbury House Theater

Michael Elaynow’s The Children at Pillsbury House Theatre (through Oct 16), a retelling of Euripides’ Medea, is set in modern times with time travel elements enabling ancient Corinthians and Americans to inhabit the stage together. If you go, be sure to arrive…

Trouble In Mind at the Guthrie Theater

“Justify!” demands the fictional director in Alice Childress’ Trouble in Mind a play-within-a–play drama now at the Guthrie, through June 5. “Justify,” spits back Wiletta in the second act as she struggles with the need to keep her acting job…