Guthrie Theater production history

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Contents 1 1964 2 1965 3 1966 4 1967 5 1968 6 1969 7 1970 8 1971-1972 9 1972-1973 10 1973-1974 11 1974-1975 12 1975-1976 13 1976-1977 14 1977-1978 15 1978-1979 16 1979-1980 17 1980-1981 18 1981-1982 19 1982-1983 20 1983-1984 21 1984-1985 22 1985-1986 23 1986-1987 24 1987-1988 25 1988-1989 26 1989-1990 27 1990-1991 28 1991-1992 29 1992-1993 30 1993-1994 31 1994-1995 32 1995-1996 33 1996-1997 34 1997-1998 35 1998-1999 36 1999-2000 37 2000-2001 38 2001-2002 39 2002-2003 40 2003-2004 41 2004-2005 42 2005-2006 43 2006-2007 44 2007-2008 45 External links

The Guthrie Theater is a professional theater company in Minneapolis, Minnesota which started operation in 1963. The following is a chronological list of the productions that have been staged since its inception.

1955

• Hamlet - by William Shakespeare
• The Miser - by Molière
• Three Sisters - by Anton Chekhov
• Death of a Salesman - by Arthur Miller

[edit] 1964

• Henry V - by William Shakespeare
• Saint Joan - by George Bernard Shaw
• The Glass Menagerie - by Tennessee Williams
• Volpone - by Ben Jonson

[edit] 1965

• Richard III - by William Shakespeare
• The Way of the World - by William Congreve
• The Cherry Orchard - by Anton Chekhov
• The Caucasian Chalk Circle - by Bertolt Brecht
• The Miser - by Molière

[edit] 1966

• The Skin of Our Teeth - by Thornton Wilder
• The Dance of Death - by August Strindberg
• As You Like It - by William Shakespeare
• The Doctor's Dilemma - by George Bernard Shaw
• S.S. Glencairn - by Eugene O'Neill

[edit] 1967

• The Shoemaker's Holiday - by Thomas Dekker
• Thieves' Carnival - by Jean Anouilh
• Harpers Ferry - by Barrie Stavis
• The House of Atreus - based on Oresteia by Aeschylus, adapted by John Lewin
• The Visit - by Friedrich Dürrenmatt adapted by Maurice Valency

[edit] 1968

• Twelfth Night - by William Shakespeare
• Serjeant Musgrave's Dance - by John Arden
• The Master Builder - by Henrik Ibsen
• The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui - by Bertolt Brecht
• Merton of the Movies - by Marc Connelly and George S. Kaufman
• The House of Atreus - based on Oresteia by Aeschylus, adapted by John Lewin

[edit] 1969

• Julius Caesar - by William Shakespeare
• The Beauty Part - by S.J. Perelman
• The Homecoming - by Harold Pinter
• Mourning Becomes Electra - by Eugene O’Neill
• Uncle Vanya - by Anton Chekhov

[edit] 1970

• The Venetian Twins - by Carlo Goldoni, adapted by Robert David MacDonald
• Ceremonies in Dark Old Men - by Lonne Elder III
• The Tempest - by William Shakespeare
• A Man's a Man - by Bertolt Brecht
• A Play - by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, adapted by Paul Avila Mayer

[edit] 1971-1972

• Cyrano de Bergerac - by Edmond Rostand
• The Taming of the Shrew - by William Shakespeare
• A Touch of the Poet - by Eugene O'Neill
• Misalliance - by George Bernard Shaw
• The Diary of a Scoundrel - by Alexander Ostrovsky

[edit] 1972-1973

• A Midsummer Night's Dream - by William Shakespeare
• Of Mice and Men - by John Steinbeck
• The Relapse - by Sir John Vanbrugh
• An Italian Straw Hat - by Eugène Labiche
• Oedipus the King - by Sophocles
• A Christmas Carol - by Charles Dickens
• Cyrano - the musical - book and lyrics by Anthony Burgess, music by Michael J. Lewis

[edit] 1973-1974

• Becket - by Jean Anouilh
• Oedipus the King - by Sophocles
• The Government Inspector - by Nikolai Gogol
• Juno and the Paycock - by Sean O'Casey
• I, Said the Fly - by June Havoc
• Waiting for Godot - by Samuel Beckett
• The Merchant of Venice - by William Shakespeare
• The Miracle Man - by Erik Brogger, adapted from Molière

[edit] 1974-1975

• King Lear - by William Shakespeare
• Love's Labour's Lost - by William Shakespeare
• The Crucible - by Arthur Miller
• Tartuffe - by Molière
• The School for Scandal - by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

[edit] 1975-1976

• Arsenic and Old Lace - by Joseph Kesselring
• The Caretaker - by Harold Pinter
• A Streetcar Named Desire - by Tennessee Williams
• Loot - by Joe Orton
• Mother Courage - by Bertolt Brecht
• Under Milk Wood - by Dylan Thomas
• Private Lives - by Noel Coward
• A Christmas Carol - by Charles Dickens
• Measure for Measure - by William Shakespeare

[edit] 1976-1977

• The Matchmaker - by Thornton Wilder
• Doctor Faustus - by Christopher Marlowe
• Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - by Tennessee Williams
• Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead - by Tom Stoppard
• An Enemy of the People - by Henrik Ibsen
• The Winter's Tale - by William Shakespeare
• A Christmas Carol - by Charles Dickens
• The National Health - by Peter Nichols

[edit] 1977-1978

• She Stoops to Conquer - by Oliver Goldsmith
• A Moon for the Misbegotten - by Eugene O'Neill
• La Ronde - by Arthur Schnitzler
• Catsplay - by István Örkény
• The White Devil - by John Webster
• Design for Living - by Noel Coward
• A Christmas Carol - by Charles Dickens
• Pantagleize - by Michel de Ghelderode

[edit] 1978-1979

• The Pretenders - by Henrik Ibsen
• Teibele and Her Demon - by Isaac Bashevis Singer and Eve Friedman
• Boy Meets Girl - by Samuel and Bella Spewack
• Bonjour, là, bonjour - by Michel Tremblay
• Hamlet - by William Shakespeare
• Marriage - by Nikolai Gogol
• A Christmas Carol - by Charles Dickens
• The Beggar's Opera - by John Gay

[edit] 1979-1980

• The Rivals - by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
• Right of Way - by Richard Lees
• The Glass Menagerie - by Tennessee Williams
• Monsieur de Molière - by Mikhail Bulgakov
• Endgame - by Samuel Beckett
• Romeo and Juliet - by William Shakespeare
• A Christmas Carol - by Charles Dickens
• You Can't Take It With You - by George Kaufman and Moss Hart

[edit] 1980-1981

• Wild Oats - by John O'Keefe
• Camille - by Alexandre Dumas, fils
• The Tavern - by George M. Cohan
• Desire Under the Elms - by Eugene O'Neill
• Mary Stuart - by Friedrich Schiller
• A Christmas Carol - by Charles Dickens
• Arms and the Man - by George Bernard Shaw
• Macbeth - by William Shakespeare

[edit] 1981-1982

• The Tempest - by William Shakespeare
• Don Juan - by Molière
• Our Town - by Thornton Wilder
• Foxfire - by Hume Cronyn and Susan Cooper
• Eve of Retirement - by Thomas Bernhard
• Eli: A Mystery Play - by Nelly Sachs
• A Christmas Carol - by Charles Dickens
• Candide - by Voltaire
• As You Like It - by William Shakespeare

[edit] 1982-1983

• Summer Vacation Madness - by Carlo Goldoni
• Requiem for a Nun - by William Faulkner
• The Marriage of Figaro - by Beaumarchais
• Room Service - by Jon Murray and Allen Boretz
• Heartbreak House - by George Bernard Shaw
• A Christmas Carol - by Charles Dickens
• Entertaining Mr. Sloane - by Joe Orton
• Peer Gynt - by Henrik Ibsen

[edit] 1983-1984

• Master Harold...and the Boys - by Athol Fugard
• The Threepenny Opera - by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill
• Guys and Dolls - by Damon Runyon
• The Entertainer - by John Osborne
• The Seagull - by Anton Chekhov
• A Christmas Carol - by Charles Dickens
• The Importance of Being Earnest - by Oscar Wilde
• Hedda Gabler - by Henrik Ibsen

[edit] 1984-1985

• A Soldier's Play - by Charles Fuller
• Hang on to Me - songs by George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin, book by Maxim Gorky
• Three Sisters - by Anton Chekhov
• Tartuffe - by Molière
• 'Night Mother - by Marsha Norman
• Twelfth Night - by William Shakespeare
• A Christmas Carol - by Charles Dickens
• Anything Goes - by Cole Porter

[edit] 1985-1986

• Great Expectations - by Charles Dickens
• Cyrano de Bergerac - by Edmond Rostand
• A Midsummer Night's Dream - by William Shakespeare
• Candida - by George Bernard Shaw
• Execution of Justice - by Emily Mann
• A Christmas Carol - by Charles Dickens
• On the Razzle - by Tom Stoppard
• The Rainmaker - by N. Richard Nash

[edit] 1986-1987

• Saint Joan - by George Bernard Shaw
• The Merry Wives of Windsor - by William Shakespeare
• The Birthday Party - by Harold Pinter
• On the Verge - by Eric Overmeyer
• Rhinoceros - by Eugene Ionesco
• A Christmas Carol - by Charles Dickens
• Double Infidelities - by Pierre Marivaux
• The Gospel at Colonus - by Lee Breuer

[edit] 1987-1988

• The Misanthrope - by Molière
• The Piggy Bank - by Eugène Labiche & Alfred Delacour
• The Bacchae - by Euripides
• The House of Bernarda Alba - by Federico García Lorca
• Leon & Lena (and Lenz) - by Georg Buchner
• A Christmas Carol - by Charles Dickens
• Richard III - by William Shakespeare

[edit] 1988-1989

• The Glass Menagerie - by Tennessee Williams
• The Imaginary Invalid - by Molière
• Frankenstein - Playing with Fire - by Barbara Field
• Hamlet - by William Shakespeare
• The Wild Duck - by Henrik Ibsen
• A Christmas Carol - by Charles Dickens
• Pravda - by David Hare and Howard Brenton

[edit] 1989-1990

• Harvey - by Mary Chase
• Uncle Vanya - by Anton Chekhov
• The Duchess of Malfi - by John Webster
• Volpone - by Ben Jonson
• The Screens - by Jean Genet
• A Christmas Carol - by Charles Dickens
• Candide - by Hugh Wheeler and Leonard Bernstein

[edit] 1990-1991

• Richard II - by William Shakespeare
• Henry IV - by William Shakespeare
• Henry V - by William Shakespeare
• The Skin of Our Teeth - by Thornton Wilder
• The Front Page - by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur
• A Christmas Carol - by Charles Dickens
• Medea - by Euripides

[edit] 1991-1992

• Death of a Salesman - by Arthur Miller
• The Man Who Came to Dinner - by George Kaufman and Moss Hart
• The Illusion - by Pierre Corneille
• Fantasio - by Alfred de Musset
• The Tempest - by William Shakespeare
• A Christmas Carol - by Charles Dickens
• Marat/Sade - by Peter Weiss

[edit] 1992-1993

• Iphigeneia at Aulis - by Euripides
• Agamemnon - by Aeschylus
• Electra - by Sophocles
• Private Lives - by Noel Coward
• The Winter's Tale - by William Shakespeare
• The Seagull - by Anton Chekhov
• A Christmas Carol - by Charles Dickens
• The Good Hope - by Herman Heijermans

[edit] 1993-1994

• Too Clever by Half - by Alexander Ostrovski
• Naga Mandala - by Girish Karnad
• The Triumph of Love - by Pierre Marivaux
• Othello - by William Shakespeare
• A Christmas Carol - by Charles Dickens
• A Woman of No Importance - by Oscar Wilde
• Dream on Monkey Mountain - by Derek Walcott

[edit] 1994-1995

• The Rover - by Aphra Behn
• The Play's the Thing - by Ferenc Molnar
• Home - by David Storey
• The Broken Jug - by Heinrich von Kleist
• As You Like It - by William Shakespeare
• A Christmas Carol - by Charles Dickens
• Macbeth - by William Shakespeare
• K: Impressions of The Trial - by Franz Kafka

[edit] 1995-1996

• King Lear - by William Shakespeare
• The Royal Family - by George Kaufman and Edna Feber
• Tone Clusters - by Joyce Carol Oates
• Naomi in the Living Room - by Christopher Durang
• The Zoo Story - by Edward Albee
• The Firebugs - by Max Frisch
• Old Times - by Harold Pinter
• Big White Fog - by Theodore Ward
• A Christmas Carol - by Charles Dickens
• Babes in Arms - by Richard Rogers and Lorenz Hart

[edit] 1996-1997

• The Cherry Orchard - by Anton Chekhov
• She Stoops to Conquer - by Oliver Goldsmith
• Philadelphia, Here I Come! - by Brian Friel
• Simpatico - by Sam Shepard
• A Doll's House - by Henrik Ibsen
• Mystery of the Rose Bouquet - by Manuel Puig
• A Christmas Carol - by Charles Dickens
• The Price - by Arthur Miller
• A Midsummer Night's Dream - by William Shakespeare
• Many Colors Make the Thunder-King - by Femi Osofisan

[edit] 1997-1998

• You Can't Take It with You - by George Kaufman and Moss Hart
• Blithe Spirit - by Noel Coward
• Racing Demon - by David Hare
• A Christmas Carol - by Charles Dickens
• The Playboy of the Western World - by John Millington Synge
• Thunder Knocking on the Door - by Keith Glover
• Black No More - by Syl Jones
• Much Ado About Nothing - by William Shakespeare

[edit] 1998-1999

• The Importance of Being Earnest - by Oscar Wilde
• A Month in the Country - by Brian Friel
• Molly Sweeney - by Brian Friel
• The Venetian Twins - by Carlo Goldoni
• Gross Indecency - by Moisés Kaufman
• A Christmas Carol - by Charles Dickens
• The Magic Fire - by Lillian Garrett-Groag
• Julius Caesar - by William Shakespeare
• Lysistrata - by Aristophanes
• Summer and Smoke - by Tennessee Williams

[edit] 1999-2000

• Sweeney Todd - by Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler
• The School for Scandal - by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
• Ah, Wilderness! - by Eugene O'Neill
• Martin Guerre - by Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schonberg
• Mr. Peters' Connections - by Arthur Miller
• A Christmas Carol - by Charles Dickens
• Misalliance - by George Bernard Shaw
• Lake Hollywood - by John Guare
• A Midsummer Night's Dream - by William Shakespeare
• The Darker Face of the Earth - by Rita Dove
• The Plough and the Stars - by Sean O'Casey
• Side Man - by Warren Leight

[edit] 2000-2001

• Twelfth Night - by William Shakespeare
• Hedda Gabler - by Henrik Ibsen
• To Fool the Eye - adaptation by Jeffrey Hatcher of Leocadia by Jean Anouilh
• The Invention of Love - by Tom Stoppard
• A Christmas Carol - by Charles Dickens
• Blood Wedding - by Federico Garcia Lorca
• Molly Sweeney - by Brian Friel
• Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? - by Edward Albee
• In the Blood - by Suzan-Lori Parks
• Once in a Lifetime - by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman

[edit] 2001-2002

• Amadeus - by Peter Shaffer
• The Carpetbagger's Children - by Horton Foote
• Da - by Hugh Leonard
• Merrily We Roll Along - by Stephen Sondheim and George Furth
• A Christmas Carol - by Charles Dickens
• Antony and Cleopatra - by William Shakespeare
• Thief River - by Lee Blessing
• Ah, Wilderness! - by Eugene O'Neill
• The Canterbury Tales - by Geoffrey Chaucer
• All My Sons - by Arthur Miller

[edit] 2002-2003

• Resurrection Blues - by Arthur Miller
• Good Boys - by Jane Martin
• The Comedy of Errors - by William Shakespeare
• The Chairs - by Eugene Ionesco
• A Christmas Carol - by Charles Dickens
• Mrs. Warren's Profession - by George Bernard Shaw
• Wintertime - by Charles L. Mee
• The Stuff of Dreams - by Bill Corbett
• Six Degrees of Separation - by John Guare
• Three Sisters - by Anton Chekhov
• Top Girls - by Caryl Churchill

[edit] 2003-2004

• Pride and Prejudice - by Jane Austen
• Nickel and Dimed - by Joan Holden
• The Night of the Iguana - by Tennessee Williams
• Othello - by William Shakespeare
• A Christmas Carol - by Charles Dickens
• Crowns - by Regina Taylor
• Boston Marriage - by David Mamet
• Othello - by William Shakespeare
• Romeo and Juliet - by William Shakespeare
• The Pirates of Penzance - by W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan
• Blue/Orange - by Joe Penhall

[edit] 2004-2005

• Death of a Salesman - by Arthur Miller
• Lady with a Lapdog - by Anton Chekhov
• Pygmalion - by George Bernard Shaw
• The Sex Habits of American Women - by Julie Marie Myatt
• A Christmas Carol - by Charles Dickens
• Oedipus - by Ellen McLaughlin
• Pericles - by William Shakespeare
• As You Like It - by William Shakespeare
• She Loves Me - by Joe Masteroff, Sheldon Harnick and Jerry Bock
• A Body of Water - by Lee Blessing

[edit] 2005-2006

• His Girl Friday - by John Guare
• The Constant Wife - by W. Somerset Maugham
• Intimate Apparel - by Lynn Nottage
• Freezing Paradise: An Evening with Kevin Kling - by Kevin Kling
• A Christmas Carol - by Charles Dickens
• The People's Temple - by Leigh Fondakowski
• Hamlet - by William Shakespeare

[edit] 2006-2007

• The Great Gatsby - by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• The Real Thing - by Tom Stoppard
• The Falls - by Jeffrey Hatcher
• Lost in Yonkers - by Neil Simon
• Edgardo Mine - by Alfred Uhry
• A Christmas Carol - by Charles Dickens
• The Glass Menagerie - by Tennessee Williams
• The Merchant of Venice - by William Shakespeare
• Major Barbara - by George Bernard Shaw
• Boats on a River - by Julie Marie Myatt
• 1776 - music and lyrics by Sherman Edwards, book by Peter Stone

[edit] 2007-2008

• Private Lives - by Noël Coward
• Jane Eyre - by Charlotte Brontë
• The Home Place - by Brian Friel
• Pen - by David Marshall Grant
• A Christmas Carol - by Charles Dickens
• Peer Gynt - by Henrik Ibsen
• Third - by Wendy Wasserstein
• 9 Parts of Desire - by Heather Raffo
• A Midsummer Night's Dream - by William Shakespeare
• The Secret Fall of Constance Wilde - by Thomas Kilroy
• The Government Inspector - by Nikolai Gogol
• After a Hundred Years - by Naomi Iizuka

[edit] External links

• Guthrie Theater web site