Duluth Playhouse

The Duluth Playhouse presents The One-act Play that Goes Wrong, a comedy that is part Monty Python, part Sherlock Holmes. Performances run Jan. 31 to Feb. 9. Synopsis: You’re invited to the opening night of the Cornley University Drama Society’s newest production, The Murder at Haversham Manor, where things are quickly going from bad to utterly disastrous. This 1920s whodunit has everything you never wanted in a show — an unconscious leading lady, a corpse that can’t play dead, and…

The Duluth Playhouse presents The Light in the Piazza, a musical based on the book by Craig Lucas, with music and lyrics by Adam Guettel. Performances run March 14-30. Travel with American tourists Margaret Johnson and her daughter Clara as they take in the wonders of Florence, Italy, in the summer of 1953. When a fateful gust of wind whisks Clara’s hat into the hands of Fabrizio, it’s amore at first sight. Heralded as a work of consummate beauty when…

Duluth Playhouse presents the play "Every Brilliant Thing". The play, written by Duncan Macmillan, with Jonny Donahoe, runs April 3 - 13. A boy’s handwritten list to cheer up his despondent mom becomes a surprisingly funny and poignant ode to humanity. Every Brilliant Thing invites audiences on a transcendent and tender coming-of-age journey that reminds us to pay attention to life’s smallest joys—and to each other. This hilarious and heart-wrenching play “highlights the irrepressible resilience of the human spirit and…

Everything is perfect - the house is tidy, the table is set, and Judy’s dress is pressed for when she greets Johnny at the door, martini in hand. It is the 1950s, and life is ordered just right. Or is it? As the fantasy fades, the edges of this perfect life start to unravel, and they discover that things are not quite what they seem. In Home, I’m Darling, playwright Laura Wade explores the complications of marriage and cake and…