- Guthrie Experience 2010
- A Streetcar Named Desire
- The Scottsboro Boys
- The Master Butchers Singing Club
- The Great Game: Afghanistan
- The 39 Steps
- A Christmas Carol
- Romeo and Juliet/The Comedy of Errors
- The Winter's Tale
- Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
- Arms and the Man
- Arsenic and Old Lace
- God of Carnage
- H.M.S. Pinafore
A Streetcar Named Desire
by Tennessee Williams
directed by John Miller-Stephany
One of America's most iconic plays, A Streetcar Named Desire begins on a steamy afternoon in the heart of New Orleans as Blanche DuBois arrives on the doorstep of her younger sister Stella and Stella's sexy, yet brutish husband Stanley. With a pulsating underscore of music and memory that swells with the heat of pure emotion, A Streetcar Named Desire delivers an unforgettable dramatic ride, filled with love, loss and the dream of what's to come.
Read more » A Guthrie Experience for Actors in Training 2010
Macondo is a place of myth, a place where oil spills under and over water, creating a chain reaction that devastates human lives and animal habitats.
Read more » The Scottsboro Boys
Vineyard Theatre production of
The Scottsboro Boys
music and lyrics by John Kander and Fred Ebb
book by David Thompson
direction and choreography by Susan Stroman
With a score by Broadway's legendary songwriting team Kander & Ebb (Cabaret, Chicago) and a book by Tony-nominee David Thompson (Steel Pier), five-time Tony-winner Susan Stroman (The Producers, Contact) directs and choreographs a stellar cast in this new musical triumph that depicts one of the most important and notorious chapters in American history.
Read more » The Master Butchers Singing Club
by Marsha Norman
based upon the novel by Louise Erdrich
developed and directed by Francesca Zambello
Bookended by the two World Wars, The Master Butchers Singing Club, a moving story of tradition, family, love and loss, follows the life of Fidelis Waldvogel and his family, as well as Delphine Watzka and her partner Cyprian, as they adjust in their separate lives in the small town of Argus, North Dakota.
Read more » The Great Game: Afghanistan
The Guthrie Theater's WorldStage Series presents
the Tricycle Theatre's production of
The Great Game: Afghanistan
by Richard Bean, Lee Blessing, David Edgar, David Greig, Amit Gupta, Ron Hutchinson, Stephen Jeffreys, Abi Morgan, Ben Ockrent, Simon Stephens, Colin Teevan and Joy Wilkinson
directed by Nicolas Kent and Indhu Rubasingham
Recently nominated for a prestigious Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement, this ambitious theatrical experience from London's Tricycle Theatre explores Afghan culture and history in an enthralling three-part event.
Read more » The 39 Steps
adapted by Patrick Barlow
from the novel by John Buchan
from the movie of Alfred Hitchcock
licensed by ITV Global Entertainment Limited
and an original concept
by Simon Corble and Nobby Dimon
directed by Joel Sass
Combining spy thriller with farcical comedy and ingenious theatrical invention, The 39 Steps is an engaging, fast-paced whodunit that celebrates the magic of theater.
Read more » A Christmas Carol
November 19 - December 30, 2010
Wurtele Thrust Stage
by Charles Dickens
adapted by Crispin Whittell
directed by Joe Dowling
The Guthrie returns to this holiday favorite, in an all new production with a script by British playwright Crispin Whittell and directed for the first time by Joe Dowling.
Read more » Romeo and Juliet and The Comedy of Errors
January 08 - January 30, 2011
McGuire Proscenium Stage
The Acting Company in association with
the Guthrie Theater presents
Romeo and Juliet
by William Shakespeare
directed by Penny Metropulos
and
The Comedy of Errors
by William Shakespeare
directed by Ian Belknap
The Guthrie and The Acting Company reunite for the third year with The Comedy of Errors, a hilarious tale of multiple mistaken identities, and Romeo and Juliet, the story of star-crossed teenage love returning after an earlier run in 2010.
Read more » The Winter's Tale
January 29 - March 27, 2011
Wurtele Thrust Stage
by William Shakespeare
directed by Jonathan Munby
The Winter’s Tale, with its improbable twists and turns, signals Shakespeare’s mature and inspired creativity. This broadly appealing romance dazzles and delights with a lovely range of poetic and dramatic invention.
Read more » Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
February 10 - March 06, 2011
McGuire Proscenium Stage
Penumbra Theatre Company's
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
by August Wilson
directed by Lou Bellamy
Inside a cramped Chicago recording studio, the agony and rage bound up in the blues gets amplified when a young talent threatens to dethrone the queen.
Read more » Arms and the Man
March 19 - May 15, 2011
McGuire Proscenium Stage
by George Bernard Shaw
Arms and the Man contrasts the practical military knowledge of a Swiss mercenary – who knows that old soldiers carry food in their holsters and young ones pistols – with the romantic posturing of a Bulgarian soldier who becomes a hero by leading an improbably successful, and stupid, cavalry charge.
Read more » Arsenic and Old Lace
April 09 - June 05, 2011
Wurtele Thrust Stage
by Joseph Kesselring
directed by Joe Dowling
Spinster sisters Abby and Martha Brewster are devoted to charity and family. But the sisters have taken on another project as well – befriending lonely older gentlemen and then poisoning them with arsenic-laced elderberry wine.
Read more » God of Carnage
May 28 - August 07, 2011
McGuire Proscenium Stage
by Yasmina Reza
translated by Christopher Hampton
directed by John Miller-Stephany
God of Carnage is a self-proclaimed “comedy of manners ... without manners” in which the parents of two boys involved in a playground scuffle meet to discuss, logically and amiably, how to deal with the boys.
Read more » H.M.S. Pinafore
June 18 - August 28, 2011
Wurtele Thrust Stage
Gilbert and Sullivan's
H.M.S. Pinafore
directed by Joe Dowling
H.M.S. Pinafore, Gilbert and Sullivan’s first major success, provides a farcical look at the mixing of social classes and the failure of idealistic socialism when put into practice.
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