Northern Lights: the Nine/eleven Plays

The Jungle and Craig Wright aren’t the only theatrical team tackling 9/11 this month. The Illusion’s Northern Lights project, in fact, is an admirably ambitious affair, staging eleven plays that grapple with the meaning of that pivotal event of our time, all newly commissioned and selected from among eighty contenders. The works include Newsday columnist Jimmy Breslin’s drama about a man haunted by the disappearance of a neighbor he barely knew, and a selection of Minnesota playwrights, including Anne Dimock’s Woman Bakes American Flag Cake—a tweak of the Onion’s 9/11 issue. 528 Hennepin Ave., Minneapolis; 612-339-4944; www.illusiontheater.org