Guthrie Theater

An accomplished British novelist, essayist and playwright, J.B. Priestley is perhaps best known for his play An Inspector Calls. Written in 1938, When We Are Married remains an audience favorite today.

For the first time in its history, the UK's National Theatre is broadcasting live performances of plays in high definition into other theaters worldwide. The Guthrie will be the exclusive Twin Cities venue to re-broadcast the high-definition screening in this exciting international partnership.

Ella explodes onto the stage in a torrent of jazzy passion, weaving together the music and life of vocal legend Ella Fitzgerald. Her story is told in the fashion most suitable to such an artist: through the passion of her own music.

Oscar Wilde’s masterpiece returns to the Guthrie’s thrust stage more than 10 years since the Star Tribune hailed Dowling’s last production as "an entertaining romp!" The Importance of Being Earnest remains an audience favorite for its delicious wit, hidden identities, and silly games of keeping up appearances that aren’t always what they seem.

Highly visual, physical and comic, Super Monkey is a world premiere dramatic-comedy created by award-winning artist Jon Ferguson and an ensemble of some of the leading physical performers in the Twin Cities.

Stuart Pimsler Dance & Theater returns to the Guthrie to present the world premiere of a new work inspired by the poetry of Leonard Cohen and the music of Antony and the Johnsons.

Guthrie Director Joe Dowling will return to his acting roots to play the title role in this powerful play about faith healer Frank Hardy, his wife Grace (Sally Wingert) and talent manager Teddy (Raye Birk). Haunted by shared memories, each character relays their own version of a single story and how they are ultimately broken by a final, fatal event.

It’s 11 o’clock in the morning in a council flat on the Walworth Road in London. In two hours’ time, as is normal, three Irish men will have consumed six cans of Harp, 15 crackers with spreadable cheese, 10 pink biscuit wafers and one oven-cooked chicken with a strange blue sauce. In two hours’ time, as is normal, five people will have been killed.

More than 30 actors, dancers and singers will come together in this unique collaboration among Kevin Kling and these two unique theater companies who share a mission in their work with artists with disabilities. The result is an amazing story about healing on a personal, cultural and global level.

The Guthrie’s annual holiday tradition continues in the 35th Anniversary production!

After the phenomenal success of last year’s co-production of Henry V, The Acting Company and the Guthrie are partnering for a second consecutive year for this national tour.

This two-week festival brings together local companies and artists to present the best work of the Twin Cities theater scene.

With action that moves at the rapid pace of a thriller as the mystery of Macbeth unfolds, this tragedy reveals Shakespeare at his storytelling best. Loaded with contemporary resonances, Macbeth’s quest for glory exposes the politics of power and the corruption power breeds.

In this head-spinning comedy, playwright Hwang turns his own travails into humorous insights, warning us that good intentions do not necessarily make the world go ’round.

Brief Encounter will play the Guthrie as one of just three exclusive stops in the U.S. following its critically acclaimed run in London. Using the unforgettable 1946 film by Noël Coward as the inspiration, Brief Encounter is a theatrically engaging blend of film, theater, comedy, songs and beguiling romance.

Featuring some of Noël Coward’s best-known songs and lesser known works, this musical review provides a glimpse at this brilliant man of the theater and a few of the women who influenced him.

Tony Award-winning and Pulitzer-nominated M. Butterfly traces lines of race, gender and power through love and deception. French diplomat Rene Gallimard is dazzled by "the perfect woman," Song Liling, a performer in the Peking opera. Yet as he seeks power over her, he finds far more than the submissive leading lady he wanted.

Nora seems to have it all: a successful husband, three adorable children and a beautiful home in Lincoln Park. But what looks like the perfect life is woefully incomplete, propped up by dark secrets and bitter betrayals. This contemporary adaptation brings Ibsen’s classic into our century with a sharp eye for social satire and moments of dark comedy coupled with powerful human drama.

More than 10 years since the Guthrie last staged this uproariously funny comedy – considered by many to be the original situation comedy – Guthrie Director Joe Dowling will direct Goldsmith’s lighthearted comedy of manners on the Guthrie’s thrust stage. Peppered with terrific characters and filled with music, She Stoops to Conquer’s mistaken identities and rich humor promise a flirtatious summer extravaganza.

The unraveling of Blanche DuBois plays out within a lily-laced atmosphere of heated passion and pulsing sweat in Tennessee William’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama. Through its tumult of fantasies, reality and impassioned speeches, A Streetcar Named Desire paints a fascinating tragedy of a woman who struggles boldly against a harsh world, creating a night of compelling, intensely emotional theater.