Guthrie Theater production history

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]

1960s

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

1963

Vineland Place

• Hamlet – by William Shakespeare^[3]
• The Miser – by Molière
• The Three Sisters – by Anton Chekhov
• Death of a Salesman – by Arthur Miller

1964

Vineland Place

• Henry V – by William Shakespeare
• Saint Joan – by George Bernard Shaw
• The Glass Menagerie – by Tennessee Williams
• Volpone – by Ben Jonson

1965

Vineland Place

• Richard III – by William Shakespeare
• The Way of the World – by William Congreve
• The Cherry Orchard – by Anton Chekhov
• The Caucasian Chalk Circle – by Bertolt Brecht
• The Miser – by Molière

1966

Vineland Place

• The Skin of Our Teeth – by Thornton Wilder
• The Dance of Death – by August Strindberg
• As You Like It – by William Shakespeare
• The Doctor's Dilemma – by George Bernard Shaw
• S.S. Glencairn – by Eugene O'Neill

1967

Vineland Place

• The Shoemaker's Holiday – by Thomas Dekker
• Thieves' Carnival – by Jean Anouilh
• Harpers Ferry – by Barrie Stavis
• The House of Atreus – based on Oresteia by Aeschylus, adapted by John Lewin
• The Visit – by Friedrich Dürrenmatt adapted by Maurice Valency

1968

Vineland Place

• Twelfth Night – by William Shakespeare
• Serjeant Musgrave's Dance – by John Arden
• The Master Builder – by Henrik Ibsen
• The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui – by Bertolt Brecht
• Merton of the Movies – by Marc Connelly and George S. Kaufman
• The House of Atreus – based on Oresteia by Aeschylus, adapted by John Lewin

Crawford Livingston Theater

• She Stoops to Conquer – by Oliver Goldsmith
• Tango – by Sławomir Mrożek
• Enrico IV – by Luigi Pirandello

The Other Place

• Blood of an Englishman – by John Lewin
• The Jealous Husband and The Flying Doctor – by Molière
• Little Murders – by Jules Feiffer
• Red Cross – by Sam Shepard
• The Indian Wants the Bronx – by Israel Horovitz
• The Man with the Flower in his Mouth – by Luigi Pirandello
• Quirk – by Omar Shapli
• Halloween – by Leonard Melfi
• Charlie – by Sławomir Mrożek
• Brecht on Brecht – by Bertolt Brecht

On tour

• The House of Atreus – based on Oresteia by Aeschylus, adapted by John Lewin
• The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui – by Bertolt Brecht

1969

Vineland Place

• Julius Caesar – by William Shakespeare
• The Beauty Part – by S.J. Perelman
• The Homecoming – by Harold Pinter
• Mourning Becomes Electra – by Eugene O’Neill
• Uncle Vanya – by Anton Chekhov

Crawford Livingston Theater

• The Alchemist – by Ben Jonson
• Ardele – by Jean Anouilh

The Other Place

• The Measures Taken – by Bertolt Brecht
• The Dutchman – Leroi Jones
• A Slight Ache – by Harold Pinter
• Krapp's Last Tape – by Samuel Beckett
• The Hostage – by Brendan Behan
• The Ghost Dancer – by Fred Gaines

1970s

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

1970

Vineland Place

• The Venetian Twins – by Carlo Goldoni, adapted by Robert David MacDonald
• Ceremonies in Dark Old Men – by Lonne Elder III
• The Tempest – by William Shakespeare
• A Man's a Man – by Bertolt Brecht
• A Play – by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, adapted by Paul Avila Mayer

The Other Place

• Silence and Landscape – by Harold Pinter
• Don Pimperlin's Love of Belisa in His Garden – by Federico García Lorca
• Kumaliza – by C.L. Burton
• The Madness of Lady Bright – by Lanford Wilson
• Stars and Stripes Forever – by Fred Gaines
• The Labyrinth – by Fernando Arrabal
• Winners – by Brian Friel
• Baal – by Bertolt Brecht
• Encore, Food for Thought, and A Mild Case of Death – by David Korr
• Madam Popov and Wet Dream by God – by Gladden Schrock

1971-72

Vineland Place

• Cyrano de Bergerac – by Edmond Rostand
• The Taming of the Shrew – by William Shakespeare
• A Touch of the Poet – by Eugene O'Neill
• Misalliance – by George Bernard Shaw
• The Diary of a Scoundrel – by Aleksandr Ostrovsky

On tour

• Fables Here and Then – by David Feldshuh and Guthrie actors

1972-73

Vineland Place

• A Midsummer Night's Dream – by William Shakespeare
• Of Mice and Men – by John Steinbeck
• The Relapse – by Sir John Vanbrugh
• An Italian Straw Hat – by Eugène Labiche
• Oedipus the King – by Sophocles
• A Christmas Carol – by Charles Dickens
• Cyrano, a new musical version – book and lyrics by Anthony Burgess, music by Michael J. Lewis

On tour

• Of Mice and Men – by John Steinbeck

1973-74

Vineland Place

• Becket – by Jean Anouilh
• Oedipus the King – by Sophocles
• The Government Inspector – by Nikolai Gogol
• Juno and the Paycock – by Seán O'Casey
• I, Said the Fly – by June Havoc
• Waiting for Godot – by Samuel Beckett
• The Merchant of Venice – by William Shakespeare
• The Miracle Man – by Erik Brogger, adapted from Molière

On tour

• The Portable Pioneer and Prairie Show – by David Chambers and Mel Marvin

1974-75

Vineland Place

• King Lear – by William Shakespeare
• Love's Labour's Lost – by William Shakespeare
• The Crucible – by Arthur Miller
• Tartuffe – by Molière
• The School for Scandal – by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

On tour

• Everyman – by Anonymous

1975-76

Vineland Place

• Arsenic and Old Lace – by Joseph Kesselring
• The Caretaker – by Harold Pinter
• A Streetcar Named Desire – by Tennessee Williams
• Loot – by Joe Orton
• Mother Courage – by Bertolt Brecht
• Under Milk Wood – by Dylan Thomas
• Private Lives – by Noël Coward
• A Christmas Carol – by Charles Dickens
• Measure for Measure – by William Shakespeare

1976-77

Vineland Place

• The Matchmaker – by Thornton Wilder
• Doctor Faustus – by Christopher Marlowe
• Cat on a Hot Tin Roof – by Tennessee Williams
• Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead – by Tom Stoppard
• An Enemy of the People – by Henrik Ibsen
• The Winter's Tale – by William Shakespeare
• A Christmas Carol – by Charles Dickens
• The National Health – by Peter Nichols

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

1977-78

Vineland Place

• She Stoops to Conquer – by Oliver Goldsmith
• A Moon for the Misbegotten – by Eugene O'Neill
• La Ronde – by Arthur Schnitzler
• Catsplay – by István Örkény
• The White Devil – by John Webster
• Design for Living – by Noël Coward
• A Christmas Carol – by Charles Dickens
• Pantagleize – by Michel de Ghelderode

Guthrie 2

• Ashes – by David Rudkin
• Mouth on Fire, Not I, Play, and Krapp's Last Tape – by Samuel Beckett
• The Conversion of Aaron Weiss – by Mark Medoff
• Dear Liar – by Jerome Kilty
• Dark Pony and Reunion – by David Mamet

On tour

• A Moon for the Misbegotten – by Eugene O'Neill
• Clowns, Lovers & Kings – by Tom Hegg and Susan Dafoe

1978-79

Vineland Place

• The Pretenders – by Henrik Ibsen
• Teibele and Her Demon – by Isaac Bashevis Singer and Eve Friedman
• Boy Meets Girl – by Samuel and Bella Spewack
• Bonjour, là, bonjour – by Michel Tremblay
• Hamlet – by William Shakespeare
• Marriage – by Nikolai Gogol, adapted by Barbara Field
• A Christmas Carol – by Charles Dickens
• The Beggar's Opera – by John Gay

Guthrie 2

• Flashbacks: Christmas Past, Christmas Present – adapted by Scott Rubsam and Gail Smogard
• My Cup Runneth Over – by Robert Patrick
• Surprise, Surprise – by Michel Tremblay
• Vienna Notes – by Richard Nelson
• Litko – by David Mamet
• On Mount Chimbarazo – by Tankred Dorst
• Angel, Honey, Baby, Darling Dear – by Robert Patrick
• A Kurt Weill Cabaret
• Martha Schlamme in Concert
• Little Eyolf – by Henrik Ibsen
• Émigrés – by Sławomir Mrożek

On tour

• Marriage – by Nikolai Gogol, adapted by Barbara Field

1979-80

Vineland Place

• The Rivals – by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
• Right of Way – by Richard Lees
• The Glass Menagerie – by Tennessee Williams
• Monsieur de Molière – by Mikhail Bulgakov
• Endgame – by Samuel Beckett
• Romeo and Juliet – by William Shakespeare
• A Christmas Carol – by Charles Dickens
• You Can't Take It With You – by George Kaufman and Moss Hart

On tour

• The Glass Menagerie – by Tennessee Williams
• Americana – adapted by Scott Rubsam
• I Remember – by Stephen Willems
• Even as the Sun – by Warren Green

1980s

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

1980-81

Vineland Place

• Wild Oats – by John O'Keefe
• Camille – by Alexandre Dumas, fils
• The Tavern – by George M. Cohan
• Desire Under the Elms – by Eugene O'Neill
• Mary Stuart – by Friedrich Schiller
• A Christmas Carol – by Charles Dickens
• Arms and the Man – by George Bernard Shaw
• Macbeth – by William Shakespeare

On tour

• The Tavern – by George M. Cohan
• A Midsummer Night's Dream – by William Shakespeare, adapted by Stephen Willems
• Soldiering – by Stephen Willems

1981-82

Vineland Place

• The Tempest – by William Shakespeare^[5]
• Don Juan – by Molière^[6]
• Our Town – by Thornton Wilder
• Foxfire – by Hume Cronyn and Susan Cooper
• Eve of Retirement – by Thomas Bernhard
• Eli: A Mystery Play – by Nelly Sachs
• A Christmas Carol – by Charles Dickens
• Candide – by Len Jenkin, adapted from the novel by Voltaire, Directed by Garland Wright
• As You Like It – by William Shakespeare

On tour

• The Rainmaker – by N. Richard Nash
• Trouble Begins at Eight: A Mark Twain Offering – by Christopher Markle

1982-83

Vineland Place

• Summer Vacation Madness – by Carlo Goldoni
• Requiem for a Nun – by William Faulkner
• The Marriage of Figaro – by Beaumarchais
• Room Service – by Jon Murray and Allen Boretz
• Heartbreak House – by George Bernard Shaw
• A Christmas Carol – by Charles Dickens
• Entertaining Mr. Sloane – by Joe Orton
• Peer Gynt – by Henrik Ibsen

On tour

• Talley's Folly – by Lanford Wilson

1983-84

Vineland Place

• "Master Harold"...and the Boys – by Athol Fugard
• The Threepenny Opera – by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill
• Guys and Dolls – by Damon Runyon
• The Entertainer – by John Osborne
• The Seagull – by Anton Chekhov
• A Christmas Carol – by Charles Dickens
• The Importance of Being Earnest – by Oscar Wilde
• Hedda Gabler – by Henrik Ibsen

On tour

• The Importance of Being Earnest – by Oscar Wilde

1984-85

Vineland Place

• A Soldier's Play – by Charles Fuller
• Hang on to Me – songs by George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin, book by Maxim Gorky^[7]
• Three Sisters – by Anton Chekhov
• Tartuffe – by Molière
• 'Night Mother – by Marsha Norman
• Twelfth Night – by William Shakespeare
• A Christmas Carol – by Charles Dickens
• Anything Goes – by Cole Porter

On tour

• Foxfire – by Hume Cronyn and Susan Cooper

1985-86

Vineland Place

• Great Expectations – by Charles Dickens
• Cyrano de Bergerac – by Edmond Rostand
• A Midsummer Night's Dream – by William Shakespeare^[8]
• Candida – by George Bernard Shaw
• Execution of Justice – by Emily Mann
• A Christmas Carol – by Charles Dickens
• On the Razzle – by Tom Stoppard
• The Rainmaker – by N. Richard Nash

On tour

• Great Expectations – by Charles Dickens, adapted by Barbara Field

1986-87

Vineland Place

• Saint Joan – by George Bernard Shaw
• The Merry Wives of Windsor – by William Shakespeare
• The Birthday Party – by Harold Pinter
• On the Verge – by Eric Overmeyer
• Rhinoceros – by Eugène Ionesco
• A Christmas Carol – by Charles Dickens
• Double Infidelities – by Pierre Marivaux
• The Gospel at Colonus – by Lee Breuer

1987-88

Vineland Place

• The Misanthrope – by Molière
• The Piggy Bank – by Eugène Labiche & Alfred Delacour
• The Bacchae – by Euripides
• The House of Bernarda Alba – by Federico García Lorca
• Leon & Lena (and Lenz) – by Georg Buchner
• A Christmas Carol – by Charles Dickens
• Richard III – by William Shakespeare

1988-89

Vineland Place

• The Glass Menagerie – by Tennessee Williams
• The Imaginary Invalid – by Molière
• Frankenstein – Playing with Fire – by Barbara Field
• Hamlet – by William Shakespeare
• The Wild Duck – by Henrik Ibsen
• A Christmas Carol – by Charles Dickens
• Pravda – by David Hare and Howard Brenton

Guthrie Lab

• Cymbeline – by William Shakespeare

1989-90

Vineland Place

• Harvey – by Mary Chase
• Uncle Vanya – by Anton Chekhov
• The Duchess of Malfi – by John Webster
• Volpone – by Ben Jonson
• The Screens – by Jean Genet^[9]
• A Christmas Carol – by Charles Dickens
• Candide – by Hugh Wheeler and Leonard Bernstein

Guthrie Lab

• Measure for Measure – by William Shakespeare

1990s

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

1990-91

Vineland Place

• Richard II – by William Shakespeare^[10]
• Henry IV – by William Shakespeare^[10]
• Henry V – by William Shakespeare^[10]
• The Skin of Our Teeth – by Thornton Wilder
• The Front Page – by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur
• A Christmas Carol – by Charles Dickens
• Medea – by Euripides

Guthrie Lab

• Troilus and Cressida – by William Shakespeare

1991-92

Vineland Place

• Death of a Salesman – by Arthur Miller
• The Man Who Came to Dinner – by George Kaufman and Moss Hart
• The Illusion – by Pierre Corneille
• Fantasio – by Alfred de Musset^[11]
• The Tempest – by William Shakespeare^[11]
• A Christmas Carol – by Charles Dickens
• Marat/Sade – by Peter Weiss

Guthrie Lab

• Pericles – by William Shakespeare

1992-93

Vineland Place

• Iphigeneia at Aulis – by Euripides^[12][13]
• Agamemnon – by Aeschylus^[12][13]
• Electra – by Sophocles^[12][13]
• Private Lives – by Noël Coward
• The Winter's Tale – by William Shakespeare
• The Seagull – by Anton Chekhov
• A Christmas Carol – by Charles Dickens
• The Good Hope – by Herman Heijermans

Guthrie Lab

• The Merchant of Venice – by William Shakespeare

1993-94

Vineland Place

• Too Clever by Half – by Alexander Ostrovski
• Naga Mandala by Girish Karnad
• The Triumph of Love – by Pierre Marivaux
• Othello – by William Shakespeare
• A Christmas Carol – by Charles Dickens
• A Woman of No Importance – by Oscar Wilde
• Dream on Monkey Mountain – by Derek Walcott

Guthrie Lab

• Peer Gynt – by Henrik Ibsen

1994-95

Vineland Place

• The Rover – by Aphra Behn
• The Play's the Thing – by Ferenc Molnár
• Home – by David Storey
• The Broken Jug – by Heinrich von Kleist
• As You Like It – by William Shakespeare
• A Christmas Carol – by Charles Dickens
• Macbeth – by William Shakespeare
• K: Impressions of The Trial – by Franz Kafka

Guthrie Lab

• Mother Courage and Her Children – by Bertolt Brecht

1995-96

Vineland Place

• King Lear – by William Shakespeare
• The Royal Family – by George Kaufman and Edna Ferber
• The Firebugs – by Max Frisch
• Big White Fog – by Theodore Ward
• A Christmas Carol – by Charles Dickens
• Babes in Arms – by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart

Guthrie Lab

• Short Plays:
  • Tone Clusters – by Joyce Carol Oates
  • Naomi in the Living Room – by Christopher Durang
  • The Zoo Story – by Edward Albee
• Old Times – by Harold Pinter
• K: Impressions of The Trial (revival) – by Franz Kafka

1996-97

Vineland Place

• The Cherry Orchard – by Anton Chekhov^[14]
• She Stoops to Conquer – by Oliver Goldsmith^[14]
• Philadelphia, Here I Come! – by Brian Friel^[14]
• A Doll's House – by Henrik Ibsen^[14]
• A Christmas Carol – by Charles Dickens
• The Price – by Arthur Miller^[14]
• A Midsummer Night's Dream – by William Shakespeare^[14]

Guthrie Lab

• Simpatico – by Sam Shepard
• Mystery of the Rose Bouquet – by Manuel Puig
• Many Colors Make the Thunder-King – by Femi Osofisan

1997-98

Vineland Place

• You Can't Take It with You – by George Kaufman and Moss Hart
• Blithe Spirit – by Noël Coward
• Racing Demon – by David Hare
• A Christmas Carol – by Charles Dickens
• The Playboy of the Western World – by John Millington Synge
• Thunder Knocking on the Door – by Keith Glover
• Much Ado About Nothing – by William Shakespeare

Guthrie Lab

• Black No More – by Syl Jones

1998-99

Vineland Place

• The Importance of Being Earnest – by Oscar Wilde
• A Month in the Country – by Brian Friel
• The Venetian Twins – by Carlo Goldoni
• A Christmas Carol – by Charles Dickens
• The Magic Fire – by Lillian Garrett-Groag
• Julius Caesar – by William Shakespeare
• Summer and Smoke – by Tennessee Williams

Guthrie Lab

• Molly Sweeney – by Brian Friel
• Gross Indecency – by Moisés Kaufman
• Lysistrata – by Aristophanes

1999-2000

Vineland Place

• The School for Scandal – by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
• Ah, Wilderness! – by Eugene O'Neill
• Martin Guerre – by Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schonberg^[15]
• A Christmas Carol – by Charles Dickens
• Misalliance – by George Bernard Shaw
• The Darker Face of the Earth – by Rita Dove
• The Plough and the Stars – by Seán O'Casey

Guthrie Lab

• Sweeney Todd – by Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler
• Mr. Peters' Connections – by Arthur Miller
• Lake Hollywood – by John Guare
• Side Man – by Warren Leight

On tour

• A Midsummer Night's Dream – by William Shakespeare^[16]

2000s

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

2000-01

Vineland Place

• Twelfth Night – by William Shakespeare
• Hedda Gabler – by Henrik Ibsen
• To Fool the Eye – adaptation by Jeffrey Hatcher of Leocadia by Jean Anouilh
• A Christmas Carol – by Charles Dickens
• Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? – by Edward Albee
• Hamlet – by William Shakespeare (a Royal National Theatre production presented by the Guthrie Theater)^[17]
• Once in a Lifetime – by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman

Guthrie Lab

• The Invention of Love – by Tom Stoppard
• Blood Wedding – by Federico García Lorca
• In the Blood – by Suzan-Lori Parks

On tour

• Molly Sweeney – by Brian Friel

season play guides

2001-02

Vineland Place

• Amadeus – by Peter Shaffer
• Da – by Hugh Leonard
• A Christmas Carol – by Charles Dickens
• Antony and Cleopatra – by William Shakespeare
• The Canterbury Tales – by Geoffrey Chaucer
• All My Sons – by Arthur Miller

Guthrie Lab

• The Carpetbagger's Children – by Horton Foote
• Merrily We Roll Along – by Stephen Sondheim and George Furth
• Thief River – by Lee Blessing

On tour

• Ah, Wilderness! – by Eugene O'Neill

season play guides

2002-03

Vineland Place

• Resurrection Blues – by Arthur Miller^[18][19][20]
• The Comedy of Errors – by William Shakespeare
• A Christmas Carol – by Charles Dickens
• Mrs. Warren's Profession – by George Bernard Shaw
• Six Degrees of Separation – by John Guare
• Three Sisters – by Anton Chekhov

Guthrie Lab

• Good Boys – by Jane Martin
• The Chairs – by Eugène Ionesco
• Wintertime – by Charles L. Mee
• Top Girls – by Caryl Churchill

On tour

• The Stuff of Dreams – by Bill Corbett

season play guides

2003-04

Vineland Place

• Pride and Prejudice – by Jane Austen
• The Night of the Iguana – by Tennessee Williams
• Twelfth Night – by William Shakespeare (a Shakespeare's Globe production presented by the Guthrie WorldStage Series)^[21]
• A Christmas Carol – by Charles Dickens
• Crowns – by Regina Taylor
• Romeo and Juliet – by William Shakespeare
• The Pirates of Penzance – by W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan

Guthrie Lab

• Nickel and Dimed – by Joan Holden
• Othello – by William Shakespeare
• Boston Marriage – by David Mamet
• Blue/Orange – by Joe Penhall

Riverfront site of future (2006) theater building

• Carmen Funebre – by production ensemble (a Teatr Biuro Podróży production presented by the Guthrie WorldStage Series and the Walker Arts Center)^[22]

On tour

• Othello – by William Shakespeare

season play guides

2004-05

Vineland Place

• Death of a Salesman – by Arthur Miller
• Pygmalion – by George Bernard Shaw
• A Christmas Carol – by Charles Dickens
• Oedipus – by Ellen McLaughlin
• As You Like It – by William Shakespeare
• She Loves Me – by Joe Masteroff, Sheldon Harnick and Jerry Bock

Guthrie Lab

• Lady with a Lapdog- by Anton Chekhov
• 4.48 Psychosis – by Sarah Kane (a Royal Court Theatre production presented by the Guthrie WorldStage Series)
• The Sex Habits of American Women – by Julie Marie Myatt
• Pericles – by William Shakespeare
• The Notebook and The Proof – by Agota Kristof (a De Onderneming Theatre production presented by the Guthrie WorldStage Series)
• A Body of Water – by Lee Blessing

On tour

• Death of a Salesman – by Arthur Miller
• Freezing Paradise: An Evening with Kevin Kling – by Kevin Kling

season play guides

2005-06

Vineland Place

• His Girl Friday – by John Guare
• The Constant Wife – by W. Somerset Maugham
• Intimate Apparel – by Lynn Nottage
• Measure for Measure – by William Shakespeare (a Shakespeare's Globe production presented by the Guthrie WorldStage Series) ^[23]
• A Christmas Carol – by Charles Dickens
• The People's Temple – by Leigh Fondakowski
• Hamlet – by William Shakespeare^[24]

Guthrie Lab

• Macbeth – by William Shakespeare (an Out of Joint Theatre Company production presented by the Guthrie WorldStage Series) ^[25]

Pantages Theatre

• Arlecchino: Servant of Two Masters – by Carlo Goldoni (a Piccolo Teatro di Milano production presented by the Guthrie WorldStage Series)

season play guides

2006-07

Wurtele Thrust Stage

• The Great Gatsby – by F. Scott Fitzgerald^[26]
• Lost in Yonkers – by Neil Simon
• A Christmas Carol – by Charles Dickens
• The Merchant of Venice – by William Shakespeare
• 1776 – music and lyrics by Sherman Edwards, book by Peter Stone

McGuire Proscenium Stage

• DruidSynge – by John Millington Synge (a Druid Theatre Company production presented by the Guthrie WorldStage Series)
• The Real Thing – by Tom Stoppard
• Edgardo Mine – by Alfred Uhry
• The Glass Menagerie – by Tennessee Williams
• Major Barbara – by George Bernard Shaw

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

2007-08

Wurtele Thrust Stage

• Jane Eyre – by Charlotte Brontë, adapted by Alan Stanford
• King Lear – by William Shakespeare (a Royal Shakespeare Company production presented by the Guthrie WorldStage Series)^[27]
• The Seagull – by Anton Chekov (a Royal Shakespeare Company production presented by the Guthrie WorldStage Series)^[27]
• A Christmas Carol – by Charles Dickens, adapted by Barbara Field
• Peer Gynt – by Henrik Ibsen, translated and adapted by Robert Bly
• A Midsummer Night's Dream – by William Shakespeare
• The Government Inspector – by Nikolai Gogol, adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher

McGuire Proscenium Stage

• Private Lives – by Noël Coward
• The Home Place – by Brian Friel
• Third – by Wendy Wasserstein
• Secret Fall of Constance Wilde – by Thomas Kilroy

Dowling Studio

• Pen – by David Marshall Grant
• 9 Parts of Desire – by Heather Raffo
• B.F.A Actor Training Program Class of 2008:
  • Be Here Now – by Carson Kreitzer
  • When I Was a Ghost – by Deborah Stein
  • The End – by Sheri Wilner
• After a Hundred Years – by Naomi Iizuka

season play guides

2008-09

Wurtele Thrust Stage

• A View from the Bridge – by Arthur Miller
• A Christmas Carol – by Charles Dickens, adapted by Barbara Field
• The Two Gentlemen of Verona – by William Shakespeare
• Caroline, or Change – book and lyrics by Tony Kushner, music by Jeanine Tesori^[28]
• When We Are Married – by J. B. Priestley

McGuire Proscenium Stage

• Little House on the Prairie – based on the books by Laura Ingalls Wilder, book by Rachel Sheinkin, music by Rachel Portman, lyrics by Donna di Novelli ^[29]
• Shadowlands – by William Nicholson
• A Delicate Balance – by Edward Albee
• The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures – by Tony Kushner^[28]

Dowling Studio

• Old Wicked Songs – by Jon Marans (a Theater Latté Da production presented by the Guthrie Theater)
• The Caretaker – by Harold Pinter
• Blackbird – by David Harrower (a Pillsbury House Theatre production presented by the Guthrie Theater)
• Henry V – by William Shakespeare, co-production with The Acting Company
• Happy Days – by Samuel Beckett
• By the Bog of Cats – by Marina Carr (a Frank Theatre production presented by the Guthrie Theater)
• B.F.A Actor Training Program Class of 2009:
  • Writer 1272 – by Vincent Delaney
  • What May Fall – by Peter Gil-Sheridan
• Tiny Kushner: An evening of short plays by Tony Kushner^[28][30]
• My Father's Bookshelf – a collaborative creation by Live Action Set (a Live Action Set production presented by the Guthrie Theater)

season play guides

2009-10

Wurtele Thrust Stage

• The Importance of Being Earnest – by Oscar Wilde
• A Christmas Carol – by Charles Dickens, adapted by Barbara Field
• Macbeth – by William Shakespeare
• M. Butterfly – by David Henry Hwang
• A Streetcar Named Desire – by Tennessee Williams

McGuire Proscenium Stage

• Ella – book by Jeffrey Hatcher, conceived by Rob Ruggiero and Dyke Garrison
• Faith Healer – by Brian Friel^[31]
• Romeo and Juliet – by William Shakespeare, co-production with The Acting Company
• Brief Encounter – by Noël Coward, adapted by Emma Rice (a Kneehigh Theatre production presented by the Guthrie WorldStage Series)
• Dollhouse – by Rebecca Gilman, based on A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen
• The Scottsboro Boys – music by John Kander, lyrics by Fred Ebb, book by David Thompson^[32]

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

Walker Art Center’s McGuire Theater

• The Walworth Farce – by Enda Walsh (a Druid Theatre production presented by the Guthrie WorldStage Series and the Walker Art Center)

season play guides

2010s

Artistic Director: 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, David Bolger, Gary Gisselman, Joe Chvala, Joe Dowling, Joseph Haj, Marcela Lorca, Christopher Luscombe, Marion McClinton, Ethan McSweeny, John Miller-Stephany, Jonathan Munby, Lisa Peterson, Roger Rees, Sarah Rasmussen, Leigh Silverman, Francesca Zambello

McGuire Proscenium Stage: Maria Aitken, Christopher Bayes, Ian Belknap, Lou Bellamy, Valerie Curtis-Newton, Joe Dowling, David Esbjornson, Wendy Goldberg, Ramin Gray, David Ivers, Terry Johnson, Michael Kahn, Marcela Lorca, Patricia McGregor, Ethan McSweeny, John Miller-Stephany, Lisa Peterson, John Rando, Emma Rice, Peter Rothstein, Mark Rucker, Mark Rylance, Joel Sass, Casey Stangl, Max Stafford-Clark, Claire van Kampen, Mary Zimmerman

2010-11

Wurtele Thrust Stage

• The Master Butchers Singing Club – adapted by Marsha Norman from the book by Louise Erdrich^[33]
• A Christmas Carol – by Charles Dickens, adapted by Crispin Whittell
• The Winter's Tale – by William Shakespeare
• Arsenic and Old Lace – by Joseph Kesselring
• H.M.S. Pinafore – by Gilbert and Sullivan

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

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2011-12

Wurtele Thrust Stage

• Much Ado About Nothing – by William Shakespeare
• A Christmas Carol – by Charles Dickens, adapted by Crispin Whittell
• Cat on a Hot Tin Roof – by Tennessee Williams
• Hay Fever – by Noël Coward
• The Amen Corner – by James Baldwin (A Penumbra Theatre Company production presented by The Guthrie Theater)
• The Sunshine Boys – by Neil Simon

McGuire Proscenium Stage

• The Burial at Thebes – by Seamus Heaney
• Charley's Aunt – by Brandon Thomas
• End of the Rainbow – by Peter Quilter
• Time Stands Still – by Donald Margulies
• Roman Holiday – music and lyrics by Cole Porter, book by Paul Blake, based on the Paramount Pictures motion picture

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

2012-13

Wurtele Thrust Stage

• Tales from Hollywood – by Christopher Hampton^[35]
• A Christmas Carol – by Charles Dickens, adapted by Crispin Whittell
• Long Day's Journey into Night – by Eugene O’Neill
• Twelfth Night – by William Shakespeare (a Propeller production presented by the Guthrie WorldStage Series)
• The Taming of the Shrew – by William Shakespeare (a Propeller production presented by the Guthrie WorldStage Series)
• The Primrose Path – by Crispin Whittell, based on the novel Home of the Gentry by Ivan Turgenev
• Pride and Prejudice – adapted by Simon Reade from the book by Jane Austen

McGuire Proscenium Stage

• Appomattox – by Christopher Hampton^[35]
• The Servant of Two Masters – by Carlo Goldoni, adapted by Constance Congdon from a translation by Christina Sibul (a Yale Repertory Theatre production presented by the Guthrie Theater)
• Other Desert Cities – by Jon Robin Baitz
• Nice Fish – by Mark Rylance and Louis Jenkins, based on the poetry of Louis Jenkins
• Clybourne Park – by Bruce Norris

Dowling Studio

• Embers – by Christopher Hampton, based on the novel by Sándor Márai as translated by Carol Brown Janeway^[35]
• As You Like It – by William Shakespeare (The Acting Company in association with The Guthrie Theater)
• Buzzer – by Tracey Scott Wilson (a Pillsbury House Theatre production presented by the Guthrie Theater)
• B.F.A Actor Training Program Class of 2013:
  • Those Who Favor Fire – by Aditi Brennan Kapil
  • South Street – by Carson Kreitzer
• Yellow Fever – by R.A. Shiomi (a Mu Performing Arts production presented by the Guthrie Theater)

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2013-14

Wurtele Thrust Stage

• Uncle Vanya – by Anton Chekov
• A Christmas Carol – by Charles Dickens, adapted by Crispin Whittell
• Othello – by William Shakespeare
• Crimes of the Heart – by Beth Henley
• My Fair Lady – book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner, music by Frederick Loewe

McGuire Proscenium Stage

• Tribes – by Nina Raine
• Born Yesterday – by Garson Kanin
• Tristan and Yseult – by Anna Maria Murphy and Carl Grose, adapted by Emma Rice (a Kneehigh Theatre production presented by the Guthrie WorldStage Series)
• The Mountaintop – by Katori Hall (a Penumbra Theatre Company production presented by the Guthrie Theater)
• Hamlet – by William Shakespeare (The Acting Company in association with The Guthrie Theater)
• Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead – by Tom Stoppard (The Acting Company in association with The Guthrie Theater)
• Our Country's Good – by Timberlake Wertenbaker (an Out of Joint and Octagon Theatre Bolton production presented by the Guthrie WorldStage Series)
• Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike – by Christopher Durang

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

Wurtele Thrust Stage

• The Heidi Chronicles – by Wendy Wasserstein
• A Christmas Carol – by Charles Dickens, adapted by Crispin Whittell
• A Midsummer Night's Dream – by William Shakespeare
• The Crucible – by Arthur Miller
• The Music Man – by Meredith Willson

McGuire Proscenium Stage

• The White Snake – by Mary Zimmerman, based on the Chinese fable
• The Cocktail Hour – by A. R. Gurney
• Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play – by Anne Washburn
• Juno and the Paycock – by Seán O'Casey
• Stage Kiss – by Sarah Ruhl

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:
  • Blue Stockings – by Jessica Swale
  • Snapshots – a series of scenes from the dramatic canon
• Choir Boy – by Tarell Alvin McCraney

2015-16

Wurtele Thrust Stage

• To Kill a Mockingbird – adapted by Christopher Sergel, based on the novel by Harper Lee
• A Christmas Carol – by Charles Dickens, adapted by Crispin Whittell
• Pericles – by William Shakespeare (in association with Oregon Shakespeare Festival and The Folger Theatre)
• A 24-Decade History of Popular Music: The 20th Century Abridged - by Taylor Mac (Singular Voices/Plural Perspectives series)
• Harvey - by Mary Chase
• South Pacific - music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, book by Oscar Hammerstein II and Joshua Logan

McGuire Proscenium Stage

• The Events – by David Greig (an Actors Touring Company production presented by the Guthrie WorldStage Series)
• The Cocoanuts – music and lyrics by Irving Berlin, book by George S. Kaufman, adapted by Gregg Coffin
• Two one-act comedies (in association with Shakespeare Theatre Company):
  • The Critic – by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher
  • The Real Inspector Hound – by Tom Stoppard
• Trouble in Mind - by Alice Childress
• Disgraced - by Ayad Akhtar

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:
  • Earthquakes in London – by Mike Bartlett
  • Snapshots – a series of scenes from the dramatic canon
• 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)

2016-17

Wurtele Thrust Stage

• Sense and Sensibility - adapted by Kate Hamill, based on the novel by Jane Austen

McGuire Proscenium Stage

• The Parchman Hour: Songs and Stories of the '61 Freedom Riders - by Mike Wiley

Dowling Studio

• The Trump Card - by Mike Daisey (presented by The Guthrie Theater)
• Home Street Home - by zAmya Theater troupe with playwright Josef Evans (a zAmya Theater Project production presented by The Guthrie Theater)

References

External links

• Guthrie Theater web site