Guthrie to reopen to the public in July, shows resume this fall
The theater has been closed to the public for more than a year.
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The Guthrie Theater has shared its reopening plans, which has the building reopening to the public in July.
The Minneapolis theater has been closed for more than a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic but will reopen on July 8 and resume performances this fall with the start of the 2021-2022 season, a news release says. “After a year marked by the profound loss of lives and livelihoods due to the pandemic, it brings me great hope to share our reopening plans with the community and know that we will be gathering at the theater again soon, Artistic Director Joseph Haj said in a statement.
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Whew. This is the fastest feature known to man, theater artist and filmmaker E.G. Bailey said late last week as he raced to finish postproduction on Dickens Holiday Classic, the Guthrie Theater s Christmas Carol offering that starts streaming Saturday. The whole process from getting the call to basically delivering this for the [opening on Dec.] 19th was about 2½ months. Warp speed from concept to finish.
If Bailey feels whiplash, he doesn t mind. He s living out a dream marriage of theater and film while working in partnership with Guthrie artistic director Joseph Haj on something that s new. It s a hybrid conceived and built intentionally as a film on a virtual platform, Haj said. E.G. is a very sophisticated theater artist and filmmaker supersmart about both mediums. And the opportunity for us to kind of press these things into one another is just fascinating and interesting.