Guthrie Theater production history
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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

