Guthrie Director Joe Dowling today announced the plays of the Theater's 2010-2011 mainstage season. Highlighting the work of artists both local and international, the season ranges from the world premiere by a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright to classic works by Shakespeare and Shaw.
The subscription season includes seven productions, beginning on the Wurtele Thrust Stage with the previously announced world premiere of THE MASTER BUTCHERS SINGING CLUB by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Marsha Norman, adapted from the novel by Minnesota author Louise Erdrich. Francesca Zambello (Little House on the Prairie) directs a cast led by Lee Mark Nelson (Fidelis), Emily Gunyou Halaas (Delphine), Katie Guentzel (Eva) and Sheila Tousey (Step and a Half). The McGuire Proscenium Stage opens with the hilariously inventive THE 39 STEPS, under the direction of Joel Sass. A comedic take on Hitchcock's 1935 classic thriller, the two-time Tony and Drama Desk Award-winning play offers up a fast-paced whodunit, perfect for anyone who loves the magic of theater.The Guthrie subscription season continues in 2011 with Shakespeare's THE WINTER'S TALE on the Thrust, under the direction of the Royal Shakespeare Company's Jonathan Munby, in his Guthrie debut, with Guthrie favorite Helen Carey returning to play Paulina. George Bernard Shaw's ARMS AND THE MAN follows next on the proscenium, with a director to be named later, while Joe Dowling stages the classic American comedy ARSENIC AND OLD LACE on the thrust to mark the 70th anniversary of its first production.Seven plays of the 2010-2011 season are available as part of the subscription series at the Guthrie Theater - The Master Butchers Singing Club, The Winter's Tale, Arsenic and Old Lace, and H.M.S. Pinafore on the Wurtele Thrust Stage and The 39 Steps, Arms and the Man and God of Carnage on the McGuire Proscenium Stage. New season subscriptions range in price from $56 to $532 and go on sale July 19. Single tickets for The Master Butchers Singing Club go on sale August 1, 2010. Single tickets for A Christmas Carol go on sale September 7. Single tickets for all other shows on the McGuire Proscenium and Wurtele Thrust stages go on sale August 15. Single ticket prices for these shows range from $24 to $69. Discounts are available for students, seniors and children.
Single tickets for productions in the Dowling Studio range from $18 to $34 and go on sale July 19.
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