10 Facts About Guthrie Theater

Guthrie Theater, founded in 1963, is a center for theater performance, production, education, and professional training in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

In 1959, Sir Tyrone Guthrie published a small invitation in the drama page of The New York Times soliciting communities' interest and involvement in a resident theater.

Tyrone Guthrie served as Artistic Director until 1966 and continued to direct at the theater he founded until 1969, two years before his death.

Also starting in 1968, the Guthrie began a tradition of producing plays on smaller stages in the Twin Cities area, including the Crawford-Livingston Theater in St Paul and The Other Place.

Guthrie Theater'schanges allowed more structural flexibility in the stage to allow each production a unique physical presentation.

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Year the Guthrie Theater turned to Garland Wright, who had spent some time as Liviu Ciulei's associate artistic director in the early 1980s as Ciulei's replacement.

Dowling's time at the Guthrie Theater has been marked by a return to regional touring, co-productions by visiting international theater companies, collaborations with local theater companies, and his own dynamic productions of the classics.

Guthrie Theater's design arose out of Ralph Rapson's work with the Walker Art Center, and concepts the Walker was considering for a small auditorium near their museum.

In 2002, the National Trust for Historic Preservation put the old Guthrie building on its list of the most endangered historic properties in the United States in response to plans announced by the Walker Art Center to expand on the land occupied by the theater.

In 2006, the Guthrie finished construction of a new $125 million theater building along the Mississippi River in downtown Minneapolis.