2025–2026 Season
The place to be
Something powerful happens when we gather in the same place and experience the same story together. Whether it’s an enduring classic or a bold new play, we can be entertained, inspired and moved by what happens onstage. Sometimes, we may even be transformed.
Our 2025–2026 Season will thrill and delight you: Love will bloom and get complicated. Glass ceilings, stereotypes and illusions will shatter. Plots will thicken. Both dreams and revenge will be realized. Ordinary characters will teach us extraordinary things, make us laugh and help us find our way in the world.
The Guthrie is the place to be, and we can’t wait to welcome you.
"The Guthrie was founded on the belief that theater is essential to building connections with one another and the world, and our 2025–2026 Season of enduring classics and electrifying new work is a beautiful reflection of that mission. I’m looking forward to being entertained, inspired and moved with our audiences this season."
- Joseph Haj, Artistic Director
2025–2026 SEASON
Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women
adapted by LAUREN M. GUNDERSON
from the novel by LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
directed by JACKSON GAY
April 18 – June 21, 2026
Wurtele Thrust Stage
A beloved coming-of-age drama
Jo March desperately wants to be a writer — an unusual dream for a teenage girl in 1860s Massachusetts. With her father away during the Civil War, Jo and sisters Meg, Beth and Amy, at home with their mother Marmee, remain joyful and dutiful despite their modest circumstances. As time passes, the women in the family grow ever closer as they navigate love, loss and new beginnings. Yearning for independence, Jo is emboldened by her sisters to channel her angst into her stories, eventually finding her place in the world as a published author. This new adaptation of the beloved classic celebrates the wonderful and trying transition from girlhood to adulthood.
Come From Away
book, music and lyrics by IRENE SANKOFF and DAVID HEIN
directed by KENT GASH
June 6 – August 9, 2026
McGuire Proscenium Stage
A musical inspired by true events
At 9:26 a.m. on September 11, 2001, the Federal Aviation Administration shuts down U.S. airspace in response to terrorist attacks, forcing all inbound planes to find alternate destinations. In total, 38 planes are diverted to Gander, Newfoundland, and the hospitable residents of the small Canadian town greet all 7,000 passengers with food, clothing and open hearts. By the time the “plane people” depart, defenses are down, romance blooms and lifelong friendships are formed. Based on the inspiring true story of Gander’s unexpected guests, this hopeful musical honors our common humanity and highlights the importance of reaching out to those in need.
Private Lives
by NOËL COWARD
directed by DAVID IVERS
July 18 – August 23, 2026
Wurtele Thrust Stage
A quick-witted comedy
It’s been five years since divorcees Elyot and Amanda called it quits. It wasn’t that they didn’t adore each other — their union was just too tempestuous for their own good. Now they’re both on marriage number two and honeymooning at a popular resort town in France with their new spouses, Sibyl and Victor, who remain unconvinced that the flames between the former dynamic duo have fizzled. When the couples discover they are vacationing at the same hotel, insults and romantic sparks fly until everyone is caught in the emotional crossfire and forced to follow their hearts. This delicious will-they-won’t-they comedy will have you rooting for the lovers and leave you laughing the whole way home.
