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The Guthrie Theater, founded in 1963, is a center for theater performance, production, education, and professional training in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The concept of the theater was born in 1959 in a series of discussions among Sir Tyrone Guthrie, Oliver Rea and Peter Zeisler.
Sir Tyrone Guthrie begins a series of conversations with his colleagues Oliver Rea and Peter Zeisler about starting a resident theater that would draw exceptional artists to perform the classics for audiences outside of New York City.
The new Guthrie Theater, designed by architect Jean Nouvel, still featured the design of the thrust stage from Rapson’s 1963 original to “[bridge] the distance between performers and theatergoers.” The new Guthrie opened its first season not with Shakespeare, but with F. Scott Fitzgerald: a stage adaptation of The Great Gatsby.
TISCH DRAMA STAGE, 2023. Learn about the mission, theatre training, curriculum, faculty, and productions of NYU Tisch Drama, one of the top drama schools in the world.
- Yale School of Drama. Yale produces more Oscar nominations than just about any other school (it's easy when 20-time nominee Meryl Streep is an alum!). Paul Newman, Sigourney Weaver, Frances McDormand and Angela Bassett all passed through its campus (and affiliated Yale Repertory Theatre) on their way to becoming screen icons.
- Juilliard. Its MFA program is a relative toddler — just launched in 2012 — but Juilliard's undergrad drama division has been molding the talents of superstars (including Viola Davis, Oscar Isaac and Adam Driver) since 1968.
- NYU Tisch School of the Arts. There's no question this school produces a dizzying number of notable alums: Christopher Guest, Debra Messing, Peter Krause and Moonlight Oscar winner Mahershala Ali, to name a few.
- Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. If you're thinking about leaving the U.S. for a couple of years — and these days, who isn't? — then you're unlikely to find a better training ground than this 113-year-old London institution, where the classical education leans on "heightened text" (think Shakespeare and Greek tragedy) over contemporary drama.
Jun 19, 2021 · As New York theater and TV and film production perk back to life after a year of stasis, this school, which is actually two separately run schools — Tisch Drama and the Graduate Acting...
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