Photo Flash: Tony Kushner's New Play Comes To The Guthrie

The title of Tony Kushner's new play is inspired by two 19th-century thinkers and their works -- George Bernard Shaw's The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism and Mary Baker Eddy's Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. The play looks at the life of a 20th-century thinker, retired longshoreman Gus Marcantonio, who's feeling confused and defeated by the 21st century. In summer 2007, he invites his sister and his three children (who in turn bring along spouses, ex-spouses, lovers and more) to a most unusual family reunion in their Brooklyn brownstone. With humor and passion, the play examines the importance of connectedness and belonging - to a family, a community, a group, an ideology, a marriage - and what happens when those connections are lost.

The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures begins performances May 15 and continues through June 28, 2009 on the McGuire Proscenium Stage at the Guthrie. Single tickets are priced from $24 to $60. Tickets are now on sale through the Guthrie Box Office at 612.377.2224, toll-free 877.44.STAGE and online at www.guthrietheater.org.
The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures is presented as part of the Guthrie's Kushner Celebration.
www.CelebrateKushner.com