The Guthrie Theater is a center for theater performance, production, education, and professional training in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The following is a chronological list of the plays and performances that it has produced or presented. Production information from 1963 through the 2005–06 season is sourced primarily from The Guthrie Theater: Images, History, and Inside Stories[1] and The Guthrie Theater.[2]
Artistic Directors: Tyrone Guthrie (1963–66), Douglas Campbell (1966–67), no named artistic director (1968–69)
Stages: Thrust stage on Vineland Place, Crawford Livingston Theater (second thrust stage) in St. Paul, The Other Place
Directors (Vineland Place): Joseph Anthony, Edward Payson Call, Douglas Campbell, Tyrone Guthrie, Robert Lanchester, Philip Manor, John Olin, Stephen Porter, Mel Shapiro, Alan Schneider, Maurice Valency
Actors (partial listing): Paul Ballantyne, Fran Bennett, Raye Birk, Zoe Caldwell, Douglas Campbell, Helen Carey, Len Cariou, Patricia Conolly, Hume Cronyn, David Feldshuh, Rita Gam, Ellen Geer, Peter Michael Goetz, George Grizzard, Charles Keating, Linda Kelsey, James Lawless, Michael Moriarty, Robert Pastene, Richard Russell Ramos, Ken Ruta, Gale Sondergaard, Jessica Tandy
1968
Crawford Livingston Theater
1969
Crawford Livingston Theater
Artistic Directors: no named artistic director (1970), Michael Langham (1971–77), Alvin Epstein (1978–80)
Stages: Thrust stage on Vineland Place, The Other Place, Guthrie 2 on the West Bank
Directors (Vineland Place): Rae Allen, Michael Bawtree, Robert Benedetti, Michael Blakemore, Len Cariou, Eric Christmas, Jon Cranney, Ron Daniels, Anatoly Efros, Alvin Epstein, David Feldshuh, Edward Gilbert, Thomas Gruenewald, Adrian Hall, Nick Havinga, Israel Hicks, John Hirsch, Stephen Kanee, Michael Langham, Eugene Lion, Thomas MacAnna, Robert David MacDonald, Emily Mann, Philip Manor, Tom Moore, Steven Robman, Ken Ruta, Mark Schifter, Kenneth Welsh, David Wheeler
Actors (partial listing): Paul Ballantyne, Fran Bennett, James Blendick, Blair Brown, Barbara Bryne, Helen Carey, Len Cariou, Jeff Chandler, Patricia Conolly, David Feldshuh, Tovah Feldshuh, Peter Michael Goetz, Von Johnson, Charles Keating, Linda Kelsey, Nicholas Kepros, Mark Lamos, Karen Landry, Frank Langella, James Lawless, Robert Pastene, Richard Russell Ramos, Ken Ruta, Kenneth Welsh, Dianne Wiest
1973–74
On tour
- The Portable Pioneer and Prairie Show – by David Chambers and Mel Marvin
1976–77
Guthrie 2
- The Collected Works of Billy the Kid – by Michael Ondaatje
- The Future Pit – by Menzies McKillop
- Anulla Allen – Autobiography of a Survivor – by Emily Mann and Anulla Allen
- Triple bill:
- Cold – by Michael Casale
- Glutt – by Gladden Schrock
- Waterman – by Frank B. Ford
- Pilk's Madhouse – adapted by Ken Campbell
- Up the Seminole – by Keane Bonath
- Hello and Goodbye – by Athol Fugard
- Open Shut – by Robert Hellman [4]
On tour
- A Party for Two – by Dominique Serrand and Barbara Berlovitz
Artistic Directors: Liviu Ciulei (1980–85), Garland Wright (1985–95)
Stages: Thrust stage on Vineland Place, Guthrie Lab (black box) in the Warehouse District
Directors (Vineland Place): JoAnne Akalaitis, Kazimierz Braun, Lee Breuer, Edward Payson Call, Liviu Ciulei, Jon Cranney, Howard Dallin, Robert Falls, Richard Foreman, Kenneth Frankel, Athol Fugard, William Gaskill, Edward Gilbert, Gary Gisselman, Derek Goldby, Edward Hastings, Douglas Hughes, Michael Kahn, Stephen Kanee, George Keathley, Michael Langham, Michael Maggio, Emily Mann, Christopher Markle, Marshall W. Mason, Patrick Mason, Vivian Matalon, Tony Mockus, Timothy Near, Richard Ooms, Lucian Pintilie, Peter Sellars, Andrei Şerban, Harold Stone, Douglas Turner Ward, Les Waters, Stan Wojewodski Jr., Garland Wright
Artistic Directors: Garland Wright (1985–95), Joe Dowling (1995–2015)
Stages: Thrust stage on Vineland Place, Guthrie Lab (black box)
Directors (Vineland Place): JoAnne Akalaitis, Libby Appel, Lou Bellamy, Michael Bogdanov, Risa Brainin, Mark Brokaw, Joe Dowling, Michael Engler, Sheldon Epps, David Esbjornson, David Gordon, Douglas Hughes, Bill T. Jones, Sari Ketter, Michael Langham, Marion McClinton, Conall Morrison, Neil Munro, Charles Newell, Richard Ooms, Dominique Serrand, Bartlett Sher, Kristoffer Tabori, David Thacker, Jennifer Tipton, Douglas C. Wager, Laird Williamson, Robert Woodruff, Garland Wright
1997–98
Guthrie Lab
- Black No More – by Syl Jones
Artistic Director: Joe Dowling (1995–2015)
Stages: Thrust stage on Vineland Place, Guthrie Lab, Wurtele Thrust Stage, McGuire Proscenium Stage, Dowling Studio (black box)
Directors
Thrust stage: Michael Bogdanov, Timothy Bond, Tim Carroll, Joe Dowling, David Esbjornson, Leigh Fondakowski, Gary Gisselman, Doug Hughes, Sari Ketter, Mark Lamos, Marcela Lorca, Ethan McSweeny, John Miller-Stephany, Lisa Peterson, Peter Rothstein, Dominique Serrand, Casey Stangl, Douglas C. Wager
McGuire Proscenium Stage: Joe Dowling, Gary Gisselman, Wendy C. Goldberg, Michael Greif, Mark Lamos, Marcela Lorca, Lisa Peterson, Peter Rothstein, Rob Ruggiero, Casey Stangl, Susan Stroman, Francesca Zambello
2003–04
Riverfront site of future (2006) theater building
2006–07
Dowling Studio
- The Falls – by Jeffrey Hatcher
- Circle Around the Island – by Marcus Quiniones
- B.F.A Actor Training Program Class of 2007:
- Lizards ... by Megan Mostyn-Brown
- Shadowgrass by Dan Dietz
- Boats on a River – by Julie Marie Myatt
season play guides
2009–10
Dowling Studio
- Super Monkey – by production ensemble (a Jon Ferguson Theater production presented by the Guthrie Theater)
- Tales from the Book of Longing – concept by Stuart Pimsler and Suzanne Costello (a Stuart Pimsler Dance & Theater production presented by the Guthrie Theater)
- Northern Lights/Southern Cross: Tales from the Other Side of the World – by Kevin Kling, music by Pat Rix (an Interact Theater production in collaboration with Tutti Ensemble presented by the Guthrie Theater)
- Violet – music by Jeanine Tesori, lyrics and book by Brian Crawley, based on "The Ugliest Pilgrim" by Doris Betts (a Theater Latte Da production presented by the Guthrie Theater)
- Coward's Women – music by Noël Coward, concept by Michael Todaro (a Producing House production presented by the Guthrie Theater)
- Yellow Face – by David Henry Hwang (a Mu Performing Arts production presented by the Guthrie Theater)
- B.F.A Actor Training Program Class of 2010:
- Tiny Disasters – by Cory Hinkle and the cast and director
- Circle Mirror Transformation – by Annie Baker
Artistic Directors: Joe Dowling (1995–2015), Joseph Haj (2015–present)
Stages: Wurtele Thrust Stage, McGuire Proscenium Stage, Dowling Studio
Directors
Wurtele Thrust Stage: Libby Appel, Lou Bellamy, Lileana Blain-Cruz, David Bolger, Timothy Bond, Gary Gisselman, Joe Chvala, Joe Dowling, Wendy Goldberg, Joseph Haj, Lavina Jadhwani, Lauren Keating, Marcela Lorca, Christopher Luscombe, Marion McClinton, Ethan McSweeny, Rob Melrose, John Miller-Stephany, Jonathan Munby, Lisa Peterson, Roger Rees, Sarah Rasmussen, Blake Robison, Leigh Silverman, Francesca Zambello, Mary Zimmerman
McGuire Proscenium Stage: Maria Aitken, Christopher Bayes, Ian Belknap, Lou Bellamy, Desdemona Chiang, Rachel Chavkin, Valerie Curtis-Newton, Joe Dowling, David Esbjornson, Wendy Goldberg, Ramin Gray, Joseph Haj, David Ivers, Terry Johnson, Michael Kahn, Marcela Lorca, Taibi Magar, Meredith McDonough, Patricia McGregor, Ethan McSweeny, Jeffrey Meanza, John Miller-Stephany, Lisa Peterson, John Rando, Emma Rice, Lisa Rothe, Peter Rothstein, Mark Rucker, Mark Rylance, Joel Sass, Dominique Serrand, Casey Stangl, Max Stafford-Clark, Lyndsey Turner, Claire van Kampen, Kate Whoriskey, Mary Zimmerman
2010–11
McGuire Proscenium Stage
- 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 (a Tricycle Theatre production presented by the Guthrie WorldStage Series)
- The 39 Steps – adapted by Patrick Barlow
- Ma Rainey's Black Bottom – by August Wilson (a Penumbra Theatre Company production presented by the Guthrie Theater)
- Arms and the Man – by George Bernard Shaw
- God of Carnage – by Yasmina Reza
Dowling Studio
- Cowboy Versus Samurai – by Michael Golamco (a Mu Performing Arts production presented by the Guthrie Theater)
- Little Eyes – by Cory Hinkle (a Workhaus Collective production presented by the Guthrie Theater)
- Song of Extinction – by EM Lewis (a Theater Latté Da production presented by the Guthrie Theater)
- Heaven – music by Chan Poling (a Flying Foot Forum production presented by the Guthrie Theater)
- B.F.A Actor Training Program Class of 2011:
- THE ORESTEIA VARIATIONS, based on the Oresteia trilogy:
- Until We See Three of Everything – by Cory Hinkle
- Reverb – by Mat Smart
season play guides
2011–12
Dowling Studio
- The Edge Of Our Bodies – by Adam Rapp
- Julius Caesar – by William Shakespeare (The Acting Company in association with the Guthrie Theater)
- The Birds – by Conor McPherson, from the short story by Daphne du Maurier
- B.F.A Actor Training Program Class of 2012:
- O BRAVE NEW WORLD, based on Shakespeare's The Tempest:
- Golden Age – by Gregory S. Moss
- In Game or Real – by Victoria Stewart
- Are You Now or Have You Ever Been... – by Carlyle Brown (a Carlyle Brown & Company production presented by the Guthrie Theater).[34]
- Anytown – music by Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band (a Shapiro & Smith Dance production presented by the Guthrie Theater)
- Swimming with My Mother – concept by David Bolger (a CoisCéim Dance Theatre production presented by the Guthrie WorldStage Series)
- Trick Boxing – by Brian Sostek and Megan McClellan (a Sossy Mechanics production presented by the Guthrie Theater)
- The Brothers Size – by Tarell Alvin McCraney (a Pillsbury House Theatre and Mount Curve Company production presented by the Guthrie Theater)
season play guides
2013–14
Dowling Studio
- Moon Show 143 – by Kyle Loven (presented by the Guthrie Theater)
- How to be a Korean Woman – written and performed by Sun Mee Chomet (presented by the Guthrie Theater)
- An Iliad – by Lisa Peterson and Denis O'Hare, adapted from Homer as translated by Robert Fagles
- Skiing on Broken Glass – by David Goldstein
- Freud's Last Session – by Mark St. Germain
- Abe Lincoln and Uncle Tom in the White House – by Carlyle Brown (a Carlyle Brown & Company production presented by the Guthrie Theater)
- B.F.A Actor Training Program Class of 2014:
- Peter Piper – by Trista Baldwin
- The Hidden People: Part One – by Joe Waechter
- The Three Musketeers – by John Heimbuch, adapted from the novel by Alexandre Dumas (a Walking Shadow Theatre Company production presented by the Guthrie Theater)
2014–15
Dowling Studio
- Marcus, or the Secret of Sweet – by Tarell Alvin McCraney (a Pillsbury House Theatre and Mount Curve Company production presented by the Guthrie Theater)
- A Steady Rain – by Keith Huff (an Odyssey Theatre Ensemble production presented by the Guthrie Theater)
- Relics – an immersive performance created by Sarah Agnew, Nick Golfis and Chantal Pavageaux (presented by the Guthrie Theater)
- Jonah and the Whale: A New Musical – book by Tyler Mills, music and lyrics by David Darrow and Blake Thomas (a 7th House Theater production presented by the Guthrie Theater)
- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court – by Jeffrey Hatcher, adapted from the novel by Mark Twain (The Acting Company in association with the Guthrie Theater)
- Telling: Minnesota 2015 – The Telling Project presented by the Guthrie Theater
- The Nature Crown – conceived by Jon Ferguson, with text by Dominic Orlando (a Theatre Forever production presented by the Guthrie Theater)
- Macbeth – by William Shakespeare (The Acting Company in association with the Guthrie Theater)
- B.F.A Actor Training Program Class of 2015:
- Choir Boy – by Tarell Alvin McCraney
2015–16
Dowling Studio
- The Genealogy of Happenstance – by Allegra J Lingo (presented by the Guthrie Theater)
- U/G/L/Y – by Shá Cage (a Freestyle Theatre production presented by the Guthrie Theater)
- Wrestling Jerusalem – by Aaron Davidman (Singular Voices/Plural Perspectives series)
- The Great Work – book by Grant Sorenson, music and lyrics by David Darrow (a 7th House Theater production presented by the Guthrie Theater)
- The Amish Project – by Jessica Dickey (Singular Voices/Plural Perspectives series)
- You for Me for You – by Mia Chung (a Mu Performing Arts production presented by the Guthrie Theater)
- B.F.A Actor Training Program Class of 2016:
- Telling: Minnesota 2016 – The Telling Project presented by the Guthrie Theater
- The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha - conceived and created by the company (A Four Humors production presented by the Guthrie Theater)
- Steven Mackey: Orpheus Unsung - conceived by Mark DeChiazza (presented by the Guthrie Theater and the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra's Liquid Music)
2017–18
Dowling Studio
- Mala – by Melinda Lopez (an ArtsEmerson production presented by the Guthrie Theater)
- Birds Sing Differently Here – created by Dylan Fresco, Taous Claire Khazem and Iraqi Voices program participants (an original theater piece presented by the Iraqi and American Reconciliation Project)
- Solo Emerging Artist Celebration
- Antonio Duke – Tears of the Moon
- A.P. Lopez – Foray Softly
- Ifrah Mansour – How to Have Fun in a Civil War
- A People's History – by Mike Daisey (presented by the Guthrie Theater)
- B.F.A Actor Training Program Class of 2018:
- Under This Roof – by Barbara Kingsley (a Full Circle Theater production presented by the Guthrie Theater)
- Not Every Mountain – by Rude Mechs (a Rude Mechs production presented by the Guthrie Theater)
Public spaces in the Guthrie
- BAD NEWS! i was there... – by JoAnne Akalaitis (presented by the Guthrie Theater)
Walker Art Center's McGuire Theater
2018–19
Dowling Studio
- Two Degrees – by Tira Palmquist (a Prime Productions production presented by the Guthrie Theater)
- Hot Funky Butt Jazz – by the Interact ensemble (an Interact production presented by the Guthrie Theater)
- Get Used To It: A Celebration of Queer Artistry
- Unexploded Ordnances (UXO) – by Lois Weaver, Peggy Shaw, and Hannah Maxwell (a Split Britches production presented by the Guthrie Theater)
- Martha Graham Cracker's Lashed But Not Leashed – songs by Dito van Reigersberg, David Sweeny, Eliza Hardy, and Vince Federici (presented by the Guthrie Theater)
- Hi, Are You Single? – by Ryan Haddad (presented by the Guthrie Theater)
- Caught – by Christopher Chen (a Full Circle Theater production presented by the Guthrie Theater)
- Leaves of Grass - Illuminated – by Patrick Scully from the text by Walt Whitman (presented by the Guthrie Theater)
2019–20
Dowling Studio
- Zafira and the Resistance – by Kathryn Haddad (a New Arab American Theater Works production presented by the Guthrie Theater)
- Fast Company – by Carla Ching (a Theatre Mu production presented by the Guthrie Theater)
- Grey Rock – by Amir Nizar Zuabi (a Remote Theater Project production presented by the Guthrie Theater)
- Jogging – by Hannane Hajj Ali (presented by the Guthrie Theater)
Artistic Directors: Joseph Haj (2015–present)
Stages: Wurtele Thrust Stage, McGuire Proscenium Stage, Dowling Studio
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