Helen Carey, Joe Dowling, Francesca Zambello, et al. Set for Guthrie’s 2010-2011 Season

The Guthrie Theater has announced its 2010-2011 season.

As previously reported, the year will open with the world premiere of Marsha Norman’s The Master Butchers Singing Club. Francesca Zambello will direct the production, which will feature Lee Mark Nelson (Fidelis), Emily Gunyou Halaas (Delphine), Katie Guentzel (Eva), and Sheila Tousey (Step and a Half).

Also on the theater’s schedule is a production of The 39 Steps, to be directed by Joel Sass, and Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale, featuring Helen Carey as Paulina, which will be directed by the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Jonathan Munby.

Among the theater’s other offerings will be George Bernard Shaw’s Arms and the Man, Joseph Kesselring’s Arsenic and Old Lace, Crispin Whittell’s new adaptation of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, to be directed by artistic director Joe Dowling, and the Tricycle Theatre’s previously reported presentation of The Great Game: Afghanistan.

In addition, The Acting Company will present The Comedy of Errors and Romeo and Juliet at the Guthrie in the coming year and Penumbra Theatre Company will bring its production of August Wilson’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom to the theater.

In the summer of 2011, John Miller-Stephany will direct Yasmina Reza’s Tony Award-winning God of Carnage and Dowling will direct Gilbert & Sullivan’s H.M.S. Pinafore.

For further information, visit: www.guthrietheater.org.