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March 25, 2008
Guthrie Theater Celebrates Tony Kushner

Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Tony Kushner will be honored by Minneapolis's Guthrie Theater during its 2008–2009 season, the theater has announced. The Guthrie said it will produce Kushner's musical, Caroline, or Change, as well as a collection of the playwright's short plays. The theater announced last fall that it had commissioned a new Kushner play, tentatively titled The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism With a Key to the Scriptures. All three productions will be mounted in spring 2009. The schedule will also feature a series of speakers, scholars, and other events to examine and celebrate Kushner's slate of work.

"The Guthrie is truly legendary, one of the cradles of the serious residential theater movement that revolutionized American drama, and the new building is what theaters look like in heaven," Kushner said in a statement. "I'd be thrilled and honored to have just one play on at the Guthrie, but three? I'm triply thrilled and honored!"

Theater director Joe Dowling said in a statement that Kushner is "one of the most important voices in American theater today and it's appropriate and exciting to be able to devote the Guthrie's talent and resources to producing three of his plays simultaneously."

For more information go to www.guthrietheater.org. (The Advocate)

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