Tyrone Guthrie Theater

The Tyrone Guthrie Theater (1963) in Minneapolis, Minn., modeled after the Stratford Theatre, adopted a thrust stage and followed Guthrie’s tenets for creating effective drama as outlined in his two major publications, Theatre Prospect (1932) and A Life in the Theatre (1959).

…1963 at Minneapolis, where the Guthrie Theater was designed to Guthrie’s specifications. The Guthrie Theater, while it is reminiscent of his earlier theatre at Stratford, exhibits a studied asymmetry in plan and section in contrast to the older theatre’s ordered symmetry. A number of new British theatre buildings have been…