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Guthrie actors busting out all over in London
Posted on Aug 29, 2010 at 8:59 a.m. by LeeH
Star Tribune's Graydon Royce reports from London on the opening of Tiny Kushner at Tricycle Theater and Sally Wingert's West End debut.
London calling Minnesota artists
by Graydon Royce, Star Tribune
It's not rare for Minnesotans to sample London's cultural life, but this summer offers an unusual taste of home. The orchestra's Proms appearances are the leading edge of a modest (i.e. typically Midwestern) Gopher-state foray. In the West End, London's Broadway, actor Sally Wingert plays a role eight times a week in "La Bete," a comedy starring David Hyde Pierce and Mark Rylance -- incidentally both Guthrie alumni themselves.
And at Tricycle Theatre, two trains and a bus ride away from the West End, the faces of Minnesota actors Kate Eifrig and Jim Lichtscheidl appear on a poster promoting "Tiny Kushner," the collection of Tony Kushner plays that launched at the Guthrie Theater in 2009. It opens Sept. 1 at the Tricycle, which critic Michael Billington describes as Britain's foremost political theater.