Ian McKellen is Guest Speaker at The Guthrie 10/8

The Guthrie is pleased to announce stage and screen actor Ian McKellen will join Guthrie Director Joe Dowling as this year's Global Voices speaker on Monday, October 8 at 7PM on the Wurtele Thrust Stage.

Tickets are priced from $35 to $50 and go on sale to the public on Friday, September 7 at 10AM through the Guthrie Theater Box Office 612-377-2224 or toll-free 877-44-STAGE. Tickets for this Global Voices event will not be available for purchase online.

McKellen, winner of the Tony, Olivier, Screen Actors Guild and Golden Globe Awards, is appearing at the Guthrie in the Royal Shakespeare Company's productions of King Lear and The Seagull, October 5 ? 14. The Guthrie is proud to be one of only three US cities on the Royal Shakespeare Company's tour.

Global Voices, the Guthrie's distinguished annual forum, brings world-renowned artists to our theater for dialogue, insight and inspiration. Past Global Voices speakers include Mikhail Baryshnikov, Edward Albee, Stephen Sondheim, Anna Deveare Smith and Tom Stoppard.

The Guthrie Theater, founded in 1963, is an American center for theater performance, production, education and professional training. The Guthrie is dedicated to producing the great works of dramatic literature, developing the work of contemporary playwrights and cultivating the next generation of theater artists. The Guthrie is located at 818 South 2nd Street (at Chicago Avenue), in downtown Minneapolis.

Photo: Ian McKellen by Retna Ltd.