Kushner Weekends & More Offered At The Guthrie In Spring 2009

The Guthrie Theater Announces Line-up for Spring 2009

EXTREME KUSHNER WEEKENDS

Minneapolis is the place to be during the weekends of May 22-24 and June 5-8, as the Guthrie celebrates the work of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner. These days are packed with productions on all three stages (including a world premiere), Saturday seminars, classes, Talk Abouts and speaking engagements. See all three plays for $90 (weekdays) or $100 (weekends). Visit www.CelebrateKushner.com for more information and to plan a Kushner Getaway to Minneapolis, or contact Kushner concierge Bob Neumeier at 877.GU3.TKTS or kushnerinfo@guthrietheater.org.

MONDAY MODIFICATIONS

Effective April 6, the Guthrie will be closed on Mondays.

Subsequently, backstage tours ($10 adults, $6 students and seniors) will now only be available to the public on Friday, Saturday and Sunday mornings at 10 a.m. Visitors will tour various productions departments, including the shops where costumes, sets and props are expertly crafted by talented artisans, offering a fantastic opportunity to see how a production goes from page to stage. Advanced reservations through the Box Office are strongly recommended.

PRODUCTION NEWS

The Guthrie's 2009/10 season was announced last week, and will include 20 productions across three stages. Read the press release

Familiar stage and screen actor Peter Michael Goetz will spend his third consecutive summer at the Guthrie, playing opposite Helen Carey (his Linda Loman from the Guthrie's 2004 production of Death of A Salesman) in When We Are Married, J.B. Priestley's romantic farce playing the Wurtele Thrust Stage beginning July 4.

NY rehearsals of Tony Kushner's The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures begin next week. Rent director Michael Greif, currently prepping a Broadway bow of Next to Normal, helms the Guthrie's commission, which will feature Kushner alums Kathleen Chalfant, Linda Emond and Stephen Spinella alongside Guthrie favorites Sun Mee Chomet (The Two Gentlemen of Verona), ChariTy Jones (A Delicate Balance), Ron Menzel (A View from the Bridge) and Michelle O'Neill (The Merchant of Venice).

RESTAURANTS & BARS

Though celebrated local Chef Tim McKee will take the reigns of the Guthrie's signature restaurant later this month, the restaurant is expected to close for 2 weeks in mid-June for a design overhaul to better mirror McKee's new sustainable seafood concept.

AREA ATTRACTIONS

Aloha neighbor! aloft Minneapolis recently opened its bold new loft-inspired hotel just steps from the Guthrie's front door. The 155-room property offers reasonable rates and easy access to all of the Minneapolis Riverfront activities.

The Mill City Farmers Market returns May 9 to Chicago Avenue and South 2nd Street between the Guthrie Theater and Mill. Promoting local, sustainable and organic agriculture, the market also offers experiential learning about and access to healthy local foods, and offers a vibrant gathering place on Saturday mornings from early May to mid-October. Don't miss the adjacent Spoonriver restaurant, offering yet another area pre-show dining option for Guthrie visitors. City Museum

OPENING THIS MONTH

The first of three productions presented as part of the Guthrie's Kushner Celebration, the musical Caroline, or Change begins performances April 18 (opening April 24) starring Greta Oglesby in the title role of the Kushner-Tesori musical about race, civil rights and coming of age in the South.

A new generation of American actors and playwrights combine their talents, as the theater showcases the University class of 2009 in Peter Gil-Sheridan's of Minnesota/Guthrie Theater B.F.A. Actor Training ProgramWhat May Fall and Vincent Delaney's Writer 1272, April 17 - 26 in the Dowling Studio. The class will also present two evenings of Snapshots, a series of monologues and short scenes from classic and contemporary literature.

NOW PLAYING

Playing through April 11, 2009
Penumbra Theatre's production of
A Raisin in the Sun
McGuire Proscenium Stage

PLAN AHEAD: PRODUCTIONS

April 18 - June 28, 2009
Tony Kushner Celebration
www.CelebrateKushner.com
on all three stages

June 18 - 28, 2009
Live Action Set's production of
My Father's Bookshelf
Dowling Studio

June 18 - 28, 2009
Live Action Set's production of
My Father's Bookshelf
Dowling Studio

July 4 - August 30, 2009
When We Are Married
Wurtele Thrust Stage

July 21 - September 6, 2009
Ella
McGuire Proscenium Stage

PLAN AHEAD: CONCERTS

April 20 at 7:30 p.m.
Stuart D'Rozario
$20, now on sale
McGuire Proscenium Stage

April 27 at 7:30 p.m.
Nanci Griffith
$38.50, now on sale
Wurtele Thrust Stage

May 4 at 7:30 p.m.
Shawn Phillips
$35, now on sale
McGuire Proscenium Stage

May 18 at 7:30 p.m.
Paula Poundstone
$29, now on sale
Wurtele Thrust Stage

May 18 at 7:30 p.m.
Rocki Lynn
$25, now on sale
McGuire Proscenium Stage

MORE TRAVEL RESOURCES

Visit us online at www.guthrietheater.org/visit for more information about planning a trip to the Guthrie

Address
818 South 2nd Street
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55415

Getting Here
The Guthrie is located in downtown Minneapolis on the west bank of the Mississippi River, just minutes from Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport (MSP). Parking is available in the ramp on South 2nd Street directly across from the Guthrie and in numerous parking lots throughout the neighborhood. Visitors will find the nearest light rail train station (Downtown East/Metrodome Station) just 4 blocks south of the Guthrie.

Box Office Phone
612.377.2224 or 1.877.44.STAGE (toll-free)

TTY
612.377.6626 (for patrons who are Deaf)

Group Sales
612.225.6244 or 1.866.80.GROUP (toll-free)

 

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