Thinking Outside
The Black Box
2025 ZEITGEIST Theater Season
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WHAT THE CONSTITUTION MEANS TO ME
By Heidi Schreck
Directed by Kendra Carlson
January 16, 17, 18, 19 & 22, 23, 24, 25 (All evening shows at 7pm – Matinee Sunday the 19th at 2pm)
Direct from Broadway, playwright Heidi Schreck’s boundary-breaking play breathes new life into our Constitution and imagines how it will shape the next generation of Americans.
Fifteen year old Heidi earned her college tuition by winning Constitutional debate competitions across the United States. In this hilarious, hopeful and achingly human new play, she resurrects her teenage self in order to trace the profound relationship between four generations of women and the founding document that shaped their lives.
Schreck’s timely and galvanizing play, directed by Oliver Butler, became a sensation off-Broadway before transferring to Broadway where it received two Tony Award nominations among countless other accolades. The New York Times hailed What the Constitution Means to Me as “not just the best play to open on Broadway so far this season, but also the most important.”
STRING
By Jessica Lind Peterson
Directed by Mary Fox
February 13, 14, 15, 16 & 19, 20, 21, 22 (All evening shows at 7pm – Matinee Sunday the 16th at 2pm)
This hilarious romantic comedy chronicles the unlikely courtship between a poet and a pizza delivery boy. Raina is determined to find that great love one only reads about in Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s sonnets. Unknowingly, it arrives on her doorstep one day in the form of a scruffy pizza delivery boy who flunked high school English.
Runner-up for the Kennedy Center Mark Twain Comedy Playwriting Award.
AMERICAN SON
By Christopher Demos-Brown
April 3, 4, 5, 6 & 9, 10, 11, 12 (All evening shows at 7pm – Matinee Sunday the 6th at 2pm)
An estranged biracial couple must confront their feelings about race and bias after their son is detained by the local police following a traffic stop incident. Their disparate histories and backgrounds inform their assumptions as they try to find out what happened to their son.
RENT
By Jonathan Larson
July 31, August 1, 2, 3 & 6, 7, 8, 9 (All evening shows at 7pm – Matinee Sunday the 3rd at 2pm)
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, friends in Manhattan’s East Village struggle to build the lives of their dreams. Pennilessness, drug abuse, HIV/AIDS, social tension, and political unrest, among other hardships, challenge the group physically and emotionally. Facing the problems head on, they make personal self-discoveries and find what really matters most in life.
LA RONDE
By Arthur Schnitzler
Adapted by Robert Lee
September 25, 26, 27, 28 & October 1, 2, 3, 4 (All evening shows at 7pm – Matinee Sunday the 28th at 2pm)
A provocative and fully contemporary re-imagining of Schnitzler’s notorious play Reigen, known as its French translation, La Ronde. Sexy, literate, emotional, and highly theatrical.
GOD OF CARNAGE
By Yasmina Reza
Translated by Christopher Hampton
November 13, 14, 15, 16 & 19, 20, 21, 22 (All evening shows at 7pm – Matinee Sunday the 16th at 2pm)
A playground altercation between eleven-year-old boys brings together two sets of Brooklyn parents for a meeting to resolve the matter. At first, diplomatic niceties are observed, but as the meeting progresses, and the rum flows, tensions emerge and the gloves come off, leaving the couples with more than just their liberal principles in tatters.
Tony Award winner (2009)
“[A] streamlined anatomy of the human animal…delivers the cathartic release of watching other people’s marriages go boom. A study in the tension between civilized surface and savage instinct, this play is itself a satisfyingly primitive entertainment.”
-The New York Times
SPECIALTY LIVE SHOWS
SALMELA SISTERS CABARET
Lussi and Sofia are back with another Salmela Sister’s Cabaret! Join them (and some super special guests) for a festive evening of singing. $15 suggested donation. All proceeds from ticket sales will go to Zeitgeist’s Community work.
January 3
7:00PM
“There is something for everyone in our 2024 season, from new work to reimagined classics, to thinking outside the black box and bringing plays to new and exploratory places. Our theater might be small, but to me, that is what is most exciting. Small space, big theater. When curating this season, we lead with love, and based it around the joy and passion of artists that surround us in Duluth, we promise you’ll feel all of that too. Welcome to Theater at Zeitgeist, we’re so glad you’re here.”
Mary Fox
Producing Artistic Director
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