March 17, 1980 - John Orlock, resident playwright for the Cricket Theater in Minneapolis, describes his play Revolution of the Heavenly Orbs. It is the first time Orlock has attempted a three-act play.
March 24, 1980 - An interview with John Orlock, resident playwright for the Cricket Theater in Minneapolis. Orlock talks about the field of drama and his work Revolution of the Heavenly Orbs.
October 17, 1980 - MPR’s Nancy Fushan reports on on Jim Stowell's play, Desperados. Stowell is the director of the Palace Theater, where the play is being performed.
December 17, 1980 - MPR’s Nancy Fushan talks with Libby Larsen, a local composer; and John Olive, resident playwright at Actors Theater, about their musical collaboration of O. Henry’s Gift of Magi into a musical.
June 20, 1981 - MPR’s Nancy Fushan interviews Tom Dunn, founder an director of Playwrights’ Lab (now known as the Playwrights’ Center), about the organization’s 10-year anniversary.
September 3, 1981 - Foxfire, a dramatization of a series of novels based on Appalachian folk tales, opens at the Guthrie Theater. MPR’s Nancy Fushan talks with actors Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy about the play and the Minneapolis stage itself.
March 4, 1982 - MPR’s Nancy Fushan interviews actor David Warrilow, who is currently performing in Shakespeare's As You Like It at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis. Warrilow talks about his career and his roles in plays by Samuel Beckett, as well as the challenge of Shakespeare.
April 3, 1982 - MPR’s Dale Connelly presents Playwrights’ Laboratory 82’, which showcases playwright Paul D'Andrea’s Lumbah Yard, a drama written especially for radio, with assistance from the Minneapolis Playwrights' Lab. Following radio play, Robert Collins, critic for City Pages, and listeners share impressions and ask questions of playwright.
August 2, 1982 - MPR’s Deborah Fisher reports on panel discussions after Penumbra Theatre play Zooman.
November 23, 1982 - MPR’s Nancy Fushan talks with the performers of the play The Dance and the Railroad, which is being staged at the Cricket Theatre.