Note: On April 18, 2011, the theater announced that, after the run of its first scheduled production, its financial situation had forced it to cancel the four productions scheduled for the rest of the 2011 season. The theater has stated that it intends to use the hiatus to develop a new strategic plan, and return with a 2012 season.

Originally founded as a company devoted to international dramatic literature, the Intiman (Swedish for “the intimate”) has been producing plays by the likes of Shaw, Sophocles, Shakespeare, Strindberg, Chekhov, and Oscar Wilde for most of its 36-year history. Eventually, the theater began including more American drama—a Eugene O’Neill here, a Tennessee Williams there—and especially in recent years, the Intiman has taken on more contemporary work, producing several new plays, a few one-man shows, and even its very first musical, The Light in the Piazza, in 2003. The theater recently completed a five-year project known as The American Cycle, which brought productions of the thoroughly American tales Our Town, All the King’s Men, To Kill a Mockingbird, Native Son, and The Grapes of Wrath to the Intiman stage.

The Intiman Theatre has certainly not lost its taste for Great Drama, though, and continues its commitment to producing great historic international plays. This mission is evident in local classrooms, too, where Intiman’s teaching artists bring the Living History program to students, using classic texts as a starting point for thinking about the big questions that still face us today. The Intiman also makes it easy and affordable for students to see these great plays live onstage by offering $5 tickets through the Teen-Tix program.