Lempicka actor George Abud's new "play through music" The Ruins will make its world premiere at Guthrie Theater this fall, part of the company's newly announced 2025-2026 season. The production will reactivate the Minnesota theatre's Dowling Studio on Level Nine, with performances running September 19-October 12. Osh Ashruf will direct.
The work sees two young people entering a single room with a stringed instrument, sharing their rage and ecstasy over eight movements as they explore how music can express the language that words fail to convey. Abud has primarily worked as an actor, creating roles in Broadway's The Visit, The Band's Visit, and Lempicka. The Ruins has been previously developed at New York Stage and Film.
The season will kick off with a new staging of Amy Herzog's version of Ibsen's A Doll's House, which premiered on Broadway in 2023. Tracy Bridgen will direct the Guthrie production, running September 13-October 12 on the Wurtele Thrust Stage. The same venue will see the return of Guthrie's A Christmas Carol, adapted by Lavina Jadhwani and directed by Addie Gorlin-Han from Joseph Haj's original direction, and running November 8-December 28; a new revival of Shakespeare's Macbeth, running January 31-March 22, 2026; Lauren M. Gunderson's new adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, running April 18-June 21, 2026; and a new staging of No毛l Coward's Private Lives, running July 18-August 23, 2026.
The McGuire Proscenium Stage season will open with Eboni Booth's Pulitzer-winning Primary Trust, running October 11-November 16 and directed by Marshall Jones; followed by Matthew L贸pez's Somewhere, directed by Joseph Haj and running December 13-February 1, 2026; Anthony Shaffer's Sleuth, directed by Kimberly Senior and running March 7-May 10, 2026; and a new staging of Irene Sankoff and David Hein's Come From Away, directed by Kent Gash and running June 6-August 9, 2026.
鈥淲hen we revisit enduring classics, new generations of theatregoers experience time-tested stories that take on different meaning in a modern context," says Artistic Director Haj in a statement. "When we stage contemporary work, new stories and voices help expand our perspectives. And all plays, new and old alike, help us build empathy for one another. Something powerful happens when we gather in the same place and experience theatre together, and I鈥檓 looking forward to being entertained, inspired and moved with our audiences this season.鈥�
Single tickets will go on sale throughout the coming year, beginning with tickets for A Doll's House, Primary Trust, and Somewhere July 16. Full season details and season subscriptions are at .
