3010 Minnehaha Avenue, near Lake Street Minneapolis, Minnesota United States
Type
Regional theater
Opened
1963
The Firehouse Theater of Minneapolis and later of San Francisco was a significant producer of experimental, theater of the absurd, and avant guard theater in the 1960s and 1970s.[1] Its productions included new plays and world premieres, often presented with radical or inventive directorial styles.[2] The Firehouse introduced playwrights and new plays to Minneapolis and San Francisco. It premiered plays by Megan Terry, Sam Shepard, Jean-Claude van Itallie, María Irene Fornés and others; and it presented plays by Harold Pinter, John Arden, August Strindberg, John Osborne, Arthur Kopit, Eugène Ionesco, Berthold Brecht, Samuel Beckett and others.[3] In a 1987 interview Martha Boesing, the artistic director of another Minneapolis theatre, described the Firehouse Theater as "the most extreme of all the groups creating experimental theater in the sixties, and the closest to Artaud’s vision."[4] Writing in 1968, The New York Times said that the Firehouse Theater "has been doing avantgarde plays in Minneapolis nearly as long as the Tyrone Guthrie Theater has been doing the other kind, and with much less help from the Establishment."[5] That same year, when a federal grant was provided to support the Firehouse, it was pointed out in the Congressional Record that the Firehouse Theatre "is the only major theatre dealing experimentally with the writing of plays and their production outside the metropolitan New York area."[6]
^Berkowitz, Gerald M. (1997). New Broadways: Theatre Across America : Approaching a New Millennium. Hal Leonard Corporation. ISBN 978-1-55783-257-3.
^ Szilassy, Zoltán. American Theater of the 1960s. Southern Illinois University Press (1986). pp 8,77 ISBN 9780809312276
^[1]
Gottlieb, Saul. "Awkwardness Is Not a Bad Thing: An Interview with Sydney Walter and Marlow Hotchkiss of the Firehouse Theater, Minneapolis." The Drama Review. Vol. 14, No. 1 (Autumn, 1969), pp. 121-127
^Harding, James Martin. Rosenthall, Cincy. eds. Restaging the Sixties: Radical Theaters and Their Legacies. University of Michigan Press, 2006. ISBN 9780472069545 P. 146
^Sullivan, Dan. "Theater: Even Minnesota; Avant-garde Jack Jack, a Hit, Surprising Management of Experimental Stage". The New York Times. June 22, 1968
^[2] Congressional Record; proceedings and debates of the 90th Congress, second session, House of Representatives. P. 4333. Feb. 27, 1968
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