Listen to a feature story on Off-Leash Area at the Minnesota Public Radio website.

A great interview including rehearsal and performance footage by Off-Leash Area on the Access to Art program at Minneapolis cable station MTN Channel 17. Click here to watch to featured video

Couple Turns 3-Car Garage Into 38-Seat Theater

If you like watching theater in an intimate setting, there's a place you can go to experience a live performance among just 38 seats.

A husband and wife acting team in South Minneapolis is giving new meaning to the term "neighborhood theater," putting on productions in their three-car garage... read more

Theatre Journal 59.4 (2007) 664-666: Maggie's Brain reviewed by Beth Cleary, Macalester College

In 1952, the American Psychiatric Association published its first Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. As the manual continues to undergo revisions, with input from the mental disability rights movement, its influence on public understanding of mental illness has been profound and transformational for mentally ill people and their families. In the context of these developments, the "mad" character who deserves exile or institutionalization because she/he cannot be socialized has virtually disappeared from Western theatrical representations of mental illness (except perhaps for Sarah Kane's and Martin McDonough's psychos and sadists). At the same time, the problem of how to represent mental illness persists. In their production of Maggie's Brain, in development for several years, the eight-year-old Minneapolis company Off-Leash Area Productions dealt with this dilemma by substituting movement for words. Read More.