GUTHRIE THEATER

The Lehman Trilogy at the Guthrie Theater presents a sweeping generational saga that spans 170 years of American history, focusing on the rise and fall ...

This intelligent and witty Tony Award-winning play by Yasmina Reza asks the question, “What does our taste in art say about who we are as ...

There could scarcely be a more provocative start to the season—or a more vivid way to experience Shakespeare’s beloved final play. Unique staging that transports ...

A timeless holiday tale:A miserly and miserable man, Ebenezer Scrooge greets each Christmas with Bah! Humbug! until he is visited one Christmas Eve by the ...

The event reimagines Mac's beloved annual extravaganza Holiday Sauce - which the Los Angeles Times called "a present from the island of misfit toys ... ...

McGuire Proscenium Stage: Noura...

The action is set in Truvy’s beauty salon in Chinquapin, Louisiana, where all the ladies who are “anybody” come to have their hair done. Helped ...

Amanda Wingfield is a faded, tragic remnant of Southern gentility who lives in poverty in a dingy St. Louis apartment with her son, Tom, and ...

The slickest high rollers are in town, and they’re depending on Nathan Detroit to score a secret spot for their floating craps game. Throw in ...

Considered by many to be the perfect musical comedy, Guys and Dolls ran for 1,200 performances when it opened on Broadway in 1950. It received ...

Wurtele Thrust Stage: Mary Zimmerman; trans: David R. Slavitt....

An adventure based on the legend of 17th Century French dramatist and duelist Savinien de Bergerac, now known the world over as Cyrano. Afflicted with ...

McGuire Proscenium Stage: Lauren Yee....

Noises Off is a hilarious farce by Michael Frayn that takes you behind the scenes of a chaotic theatre production. The story unfolds in three ...

Barbara Field....

He’s young, he’s broke, his landlord’s knocking at the door, and he’s just found out his wife is going to have a baby. To make ...

More than fifty years ago one musical changed theater forever. Now it's back, and mesmerizing audiences once again. From the first note to the final ...

Danai Gurira; dir: Rebecca Taichman....

INDECENT, by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel, is a deeply moving play inspired by the true events surrounding the controversial 1923 Broadway debut of Sholem ...

Blithe Spirit is a classic comedy play, written by Noël Coward in 1941. The play follows the story of novelist Charles Condomine who, hoping to ...

Four-time Academy Award nominee and Golden Globe winner Marsha Mason (The Goodbye Girl) leads an ensemble cast as Fanny Farrelly in Lillian Hellman's suspenseful masterpiece ...

William Shakespeare; dir: Joseph Haj....

Gardens and cultures clash, turning friendly neighbors into feuding enemies in this funny world premiere by the author of The Book Club Play. Pablo, a ...

Dive into the world of artistic obsession and the complexities of creativity with Sunday in the Park with George, the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning ...

An explosive Kansas City DJ broadcasts his articulate, profane and impassioned testimony to American jazz in an 80-minute music-filled interactive experience. "A euphoric and heartrending ...

The Moving Company ; dir: Dominique Serrand....

Lloyd Suh....

This American classic is a story about eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove who wants nothing more than to be loved. Instead, she's abused. Blaming her dark skin, ...

Dowling Studio:...

William Shakespeare; dir: Joseph Haj. Wurtele Thrust Stage:...

Edna Ferber, George S. Kaufman; dir: Rachel Chavkin. McGuire Proscenium:...

In a play that reads like a grim parody of AVLT's best works, an ensemble of American actors come together to make a play about ...

Ensemble , Diogo Lopes; dir: Diogo Lopes, Isabel Nelson. Dowling Studio:...

James Goldman; dir: Kevin Moriarty....

James Goldman; dir: Kevin Moriarty....

World Premiere...

World Premiere...

Mike Wiley; dir: Patricia McGregor....

Mike Wiley; dir: Patricia McGregor....

adapt: Kate Hamill from Jane Austen; dir: Sarah Rasmussen. A fresh adaptation of Austen’s treasured novel Full of humor and emotional depth, a fresh adaptation ...

"Sense and Sensibility" by Jon Jory, adapted from the novel by Jane Austen (February 17 – March 18, 2012) Fortune lost to fate. Romance lost ...

Elizabeth Price Kenan Theatre: Jeanne Sakata; dir: Lisa Rothe....

Elizabeth Price Kenan Theatre: Jeanne Sakata; dir: Lisa Rothe....

Josef Evans; dir: Maren Ward....

Josef Evans; dir: Maren Ward....

Ayad Akhtar; dir: TBD ....

Ayad Akhtar; dir: TBD ....

Oscar Hammerstein II, Joshua Logan; lyrics: Oscar Hammerstein II; music: Richard Rogers; dir: Joseph Haj....

dir: Mark DeChiazza....

Written on the cusp of the Civil Rights Movement, Trouble in Mind explores the strained relationships of a newly integrated cast rehearsing a bold anti-lynching ...

The company ; dir: Jason Ballweber....

When Elwood P. Dowd starts to introduce his imaginary friend, Harvey, a six-and-a-half-foot rabbit, to guests at a society party, his sister, Veta, has seen ...

adapt: Jeffrey Hatcher from Richard Brinsley Sheridan; dir: Michael Kahn....

Rave reviews greeted this masterpiece of farce when it was recently revived in London. Feuding theatre critics Birdboot and Moon, the first a fusty philanderer ...

WORLD PREMIERE by Mia Chung Directed by Yury Urnov In Association with Ma-Yi Theater Company Two North Korean sisters—facing starvation at the hands of a ...

Sailors and pirates, nuns and hookers, innocent virgins and evil kings--seven actors play forty roles in Shakespeare's adventure tale about a shattered family trying to ...

Grant Sorenson; lyrics: David Darrow; music: David Darrow; dir: Grant Sorenson....

adapt: Mark Bedard, Gregg Coffin from George S. Kaufman; lyrics: Irving Berlin; music: Irving Berlin; dir: David Ivers....

A forest rings with the sound of gunfire. Screams echo through corridors. At Claire’s choir rehearsal, something terrible happens… David Greig’s daring new play is ...

adapt: Christopher Sergel from Harper Lee; dir: John Miller-Stephany....

Sarah Ruhl; dir: Casey Stangl....

The Music Man, a classic American musical brimming with small-town charm and a touch of con artistry, follows the fast-talking Harold Hill. He arrives in ...

The Vortex entry in ABQ's Irish Theatre Festival is one of the epic plays of the 20th century. O'Casey's gritty tale of poverty, survival, and ...

A witch hunt is beginning in Salem. Raised to be seen and not heard, a group of young women suddenly find their words have a ...

What will endure when the cataclysm arrives – when the grid fails, society crumbles, and we’re faced with the task of rebuilding? Anne Washburn’s imaginative ...

William Shakespeare; dir: David Bolger, Joe Dowling....

The time is the mid '70s, the place a city in upstate New York. John, a playwright, returns to his family’s house, bringing with him ...

Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike Christopher Durang; dir: Joel Sass....

My Fair Lady Alan Jay Lerner; music: Frederick Loewe; dir: Joe Dowling....

William Shakespeare, Tom Stoppard; dir: Ian Belknap, John Rando....

Wurtele Thrust Stage: William Shakespeare; dir: Marion McClinton....

The night before his untimely death, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. returns to his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis after delivering a speech ...

McGuire Proscenium Stage: adapt: Emma Rice from Carl Grose, Anna Maria Murphy; dir: Emma Rice....

FREUD’S LAST SESSION centers on legendary psychoanalyst Dr. Sigmund Freud who invites the young, rising Oxford Don C.S. Lewis to his home in London. On ...

Dowling Studio: David Goldstein; dir: Joe Dowling....

McGuire Proscenium Stage: Nina Raine; dir: Wendy Goldberg....

Sonya and her uncle Vanya have devoted their lives to managing the family farm in isolation, but when her celebrated, ailing father and his charismatic ...

From celebrated entertainer Garson Kanin, with a golden career spanning more than 60 years with credits including Tracy and Hepburn classics Adam’s Rib and Pat ...

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the 2012 Tony Award for Best Play, Bruce Norris’ satiric comedy deals with race and class in response to ...

Wurtele Thrust Stage: - Crispin Whittell; dir: Roger Rees....

On a bare stage, a storyteller emerges from the back of the theatre to re-tell The Iliad, one of the oldest stories in Western civilization. ...

McGuire Proscenium Stage: - Louis Jenkins, Mark Rylance; dir: Mark Rylance, Claire Van Kampen....

Wurtele Thrust Stage: - William Shakespeare; dir: Edward Hall....

This season the Guthrie welcomes internationally acclaimed Propeller to present Twelfth Night and The Taming of the Shrew in repertory, two comedies full of mistaken ...

Dowling Studio: - R.A. Shiomi; dir: Rick Shiomi....

Winner of the 2012 Drama League Award and Tony Award nominee for Best Play, Other Desert Cities was hailed by The New York Times as ...

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Dowling Studio: - Tracey Scott Wilson; dir: Marion McClinton....

For the first time in its 50-year history, the Guthrie will present this Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning family drama – featuring acting dream team ...

An idyllic Forest of Arden provides the lush backdrop for Shakespeare's glorious romantic comedy of courtiers, clowns, philosophers and provincials—all bewitched by the trials and ...

Dowling Studio: - William Shakespeare; dir: Dan Rothenberg....

A classic comic masterpiece, directed by former Guthrie company member Christopher Bayes and starring comedic genius Steven Epp (Theatre de la Jeune Lune), The Servant ...

Joe Chvala directs this season’s production of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, the perennial favorite that received a new adaptation by Crispin Whittell in 2010 ...

As a young man, Konrad ran away, leaving his best friend Henrik and Henrik's wife Krisztina with no explanation. "Coward," she calls him. Forty-one years, ...

Lights! Camera! Aktion! Where did German writers and other artists go when they escaped the rise of the Third Reich? To Hollywood, of course. Hampton ...

Following the success last year of Tarell Alvin McCraney's In the Red and Brown Water, Pillsbury House Theatre and The Mount Curve Company are coming ...

One of the most highly anticipated events of the season will be the union of Guthrie dream team Raye Birk (Faith Healer, Third) and Peter ...

Dancing Danny is caught between a rock and a hard place. Indebted to a street tough who saved his life, Danny reluctantly becomes a boxer ...

Family ties – whether they come from a real family or a family of choice – are at the heart of Anytown, a unique collaboration ...

This season the Guthrie welcomes the return of the acclaimed Penumbra Theatre Company – which last brought audiences productions of Gem of the Ocean, A ...

The year is 1953 in the Harlem apartment of Negro writer Langston Hughes. Unable to sleep he gets up and begins to write a poem, ...

A fictional account of the demons and dilemmas faced by Langston Hughes while attempting to write a poem on the eve of his appearance before ...

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer of Dinner with Friends is a moving portrait about James and Sarah, a journalist and photographer, coping with changes in ...

Judy Collins has thrilled audiences worldwide with her unique blend of interpretative folksongs and contemporary themes in a career has spans more than 50 years. ...

To come to my house, to call for what he likes, to turn me out of my own chair, to insult the family, to order ...

I in earth, in heaven, or in hell? Sleeping or waking? mad or well advised? Known unto these, and to myself disguised! Two sets of ...

How had a 22-year-old pretentious layabout made a discovery that would elude every other cinematic pioneer for years to come? In a remote village in ...

In Mike Birbiglia's My Girlfriend's Boyfriend, Mike shares a lifetime of romantic blunders and miscues that most adults would spend a lifetime trying to forget. ...

Minnesota playwright Lee Blessing creates a vivid, tender and often funny family portrait. An emergency reunites three sisters -- Kess, a gay professor living in ...

Grammy-award winning singer/songwriter/guitarist Keb Mo returns with a new album The Reflection. The highly-anticipated collection is his first studio release since his 2006 album, Suitcase, ...

One of the most popular British plays of the 19th century, and still widely regarded as one of the most sensational and entertaining farces of ...

Moscow, 1938. A dangerous place to have a sense of humour; even more so a sense of freedom. Mikhail Bulgakov, living among dissidents, stalked by ...

For more than 35 years audiences have treasured the Guthrie's A Christmas Carol, making it a tradition not to be missed. Last season the Guthrie ...

From Obie Award-winning playwright and novelist Adam Rapp, one of the nation's most provocative young writers, is this intimate one-character play about a 16-year-old girl ...

Irish Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney delivers an exquisite adaptation of Sophocles' Antigone, reviving the Greek tale of love and self-sacrifice for today's theatergoer. As with ...

Is falling in love only for the young? Not according to Joe Dowling's take on Shakespeare's romantic comedy Much Ado About Nothing. The play centers ...

reasons to be pretty centers on four young working-class friends and lovers who become increasingly dissatisfied with their dead-end lives and each other. A commentary ...

Her Majesty's Ship Pinafore is setting sail for the splash hit event of the summer! Gilbert and Sullivan's first blockbuster is among the most crowd-pleasing ...

God of Carnage begins as two highly strung couples, Alan and Annette Raleigh and Michael and Veronica Novak, meet for a civil discussion about a ...

Family ties – whether they come from a real family or a family of choice – are at the heart of Anytown, a unique collaboration ...