Theatre in the Round Players

They were joined by Frederick Hilgendorf, a high-school teacher and community theatre director from Wisconsin,[4] and on January 15, 1953 their first production opened in the YWCA at 12th and Nicollet in downtown Minneapolis - called Life with Father.

Over time, that evolved into the work of the play-selection committee, composed of members of its board of directors as well as the theater community.

Charles Nolte, stage and screen actor who earned his doctorate at the U in 1966 and taught there through the 1990s, also directed more than a dozen TRP productions.

[3] TRP also provided classes to preschool and elementary age children, in conjunction with the University of Minnesota Continuing Education in the Arts.

[14] Theater in the Round Players has followed a path supported by the classics, allowing for careful additions of new works - both american and international.

Taylor's Good, Christopher Durang's The Marriage of Bette and Boo, Eduardo de Filippo's Filumena, George Bernard Shaw's The Philanderer, and Ronald Millar's Abelard and Heloise, as well as the riskier A Day in the Death of Joe Egg by Peter Nichols, Equus by Peter Shaffer and The Great White Hope by Howard Sackler.