Ansa Akyea, Greta Oglesby and Christiana Clark in a scene from "In the Red and Brown Water." Photo by Michal Daniel.

Last year, Obie-winning and Tony-nominated director Marion McClinton staged the Twin Cities' best play of 2011, Tarell Alvin McCraney's "In the Red and Brown Water," at the Guthrie Theater. That production was under the aegis of Pillsbury House Theatre and The Mount Curve Company.

The same team is coming together again for "The Brothers Size," part two of McCraney's trilogy. Like "Red and Brown Water," it is set in the bayou with sturdy lyrical language and mythological figures embodied by young people struggling for meaningful lives against circumstances and limitations. It will run in the fall although neither casting nor exact dates have been announced.

McClinton will also direct the premiere of Tracey Scott Wilson's "Buzzer," a dark comedy about a black young lawyer and who takes his white girlfriend to his old neighborhood. Co-commissioned by the Guthrie Theater, "Buzzer" kicks off Pillsbury House's 20th anniversary season( Feb. 17-March 18). All performances will be "pay-what-you-can."

The Pillsbury season includes a much-lauded engagement by Daniel Alexander Jones as soul diva Jomama Jones, who is celebrating a new album, "Radiate." Directed by Kym Moore, the soul superstar will be backed by the Sweet Peaches. The New York Times review hailed the performance as irresistible, saying it's "hard not to surrender to this sequin-encrusted earth mother's soulful embrace." The Pillsbury House slate also has dates for its Late Nite Series of experimental works, whose admission price includes dinner (Nov.3, 10 and 17) and Naked Stages (Dec. 5-15). For more info, call 612-825-0459 or go online.