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When the Dixie Chicks took their politics with them onto a London stage in 2003, the Texas trio violated an unwritten code of country music. Our coverage of their comeback brought boos from fans who feel they've been betrayed and applause from a newfound audience ardent in its support of free speech...
...world's best-known and most closely followed architects. But he's a latecomer to the U.S. After a number of false starts and canceled projects, the Guthrie will be his first completed U.S. commission. (His second, a condo building in New York City, opens later this year.) Although stage productions won't begin until next month, the new Guthrie has its gala opening on June...
What the inaugural visitors will come upon is an ingenious stage production in itself. A building that looks at times to be a castle keep, bunkered and enclosed, turns out to be an enchanted castle, full of witty gestures and brilliant sleights of hand. Nouvel knows that this indigo metal box is a very visible commission, and not just because it's located on a high bank of the Mississippi. From the time it was established in 1963 by Tyrone Guthrie, the legendary British director, the Guthrie has been one of the most prestigious regional theaters...
...original Guthrie Theater, a 1963 structure by a Minneapolis architect, Ralph Rapson, happens to be next door to the Walker, which owns it and plans to tear it down soon to make way for a four-acre sculpture garden. The old theater's signal feature is its thrust stage, an innovation at the time, which juts into the orchestra section like a runway. Although inventive thrust staging became the signature of Guthrie directors--what else could they do?--there were times when they would have preferred a conventional proscenium. In the late 1990s, Joe Dowling, the Irish director...
...million building that Nouvel has delivered is actually three theaters: a thrust stage that seats 1,100, a proscenium house for 700 and a 200-seat "studio" for new plays. The new Guthrie, which also has its own restaurants and bars, is situated on a stretch of the Mississippi that was once a thriving industrial waterfront. Old mills and factories still survive nearby, and Nouvel looked to them for his first inspiration. "It was important to me to create a link with the history of the city," he explains. "I said to myself, 'Theater is an industry...