Since taking the helm, Guthrie artistic director Joseph Haj has pushed the venerable theater into greater diversity, both in tone and in representation. With The Legend of Georgia McBride, the theater ventures into new territory on both fronts with a…
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The Great Work in the Guthrie’s Dowling Studio
It is one of the true joys of the Twin Cities that emerging, passionate artists are provided space to flex their creative talents and share new works. These productions play a vital role in pushing the stage in fresh directions…
“Uncle Vanya” at The Guthrie
One of the strangest things to happen in the last season of “Breaking Badâ€, AMC’s meth-fueled drama, is the role-switch (or apparent role-switch) of the two main characters. Walter White, desperate and stricken with cancer, goes from high-school chemistry teacher…
The Sunshine Boys at the Guthrie Theater
Peter Michael Goetz dominates The Sunshine Boys (at the Guthrie, through September 2), Neil Simon‘s paean to the lost glories of Vaudeville. Goetz plays Willie Clark, one half of the famous comedy team Lewis and Clark. It’s the early 70s…
End Of The Rainbow at the Guthrie Theater
To his credit, in End Of The Rainbow (at the Guthrie, through March 11) playwright Peter Quilter refuses to give us the “pretty” Judy Garland, the achingly luminous singer who wowed us in The Wizard Of Oz (age 17), A…
Julius Caesar, a co-production between the Guthrie and the Acting Company
Julius Caesar, asserts the officious and buttoned down Brutus in his oration at Caesar’s funeral, “was ambitious, [and so] I slew him.” But isn’t ambition the assassins’ over-riding motivation? They pay poor lip service to serving “great Rome,” but “lean…
Heaven, a Flying Foot Forum production at the Guthrie Theater
In the 1990s during the War in Bosnia and Herzegovina, over 100,000 people were killed and more than 2 million people displaced in one of the most horrific set of human-inflicted tragedies since WWII. Heaven, a new work by Flying…
Song Of Extinction by Theater Latté Da performing on the Guthrie’s Dowling Stage
Normally Latté Da specializes in intelligent but feel-good music theater: All Is Calm, La Bohème, The Full Monty, etc. But here they are, tackling E.M. Lewis‘s challenging straight play (such an odd term) Song Of Extinction (Theater Latté Da performing…
The Winter’s Tale at the Guthrie Theater
At the very end of William Shakespeare‘s The Winter’s Tale (on the Guthrie‘s Wurtele Stage, through March 27) the statue comes alive. Hermione lives! She embraces, and forgives, Leontes. Wow. It’s one of the most thrilling moments in the canon,…