March 6, 2011, Sunday - Michael Langham Memorial Service at The Guthrie

Time: 6:00pm

Location: Guthrie Theater, Wurtele Thrust Stage

A public celebration of the life and work of former Guthrie Artistic Director Michael Langham, who passed away on January 15, will take place Sunday, March 6, at the Guthrie.

Scheduled to pay tribute and share their memories of Langham are Guthrie Artistic Director Joe Dowling, board member Charles Zelle, director Stephen Kanee, production manager Jon Cranney, playwright Barbara Field, musician Dick Whitbeck and actors Barbara Bryne, Peter Michael Goetz, Helen Carey, Sally Wingert and Christina Baldwin. A friend and respected colleague of Tyrone Guthrie, Michael Langham came to the Guthrie after 12 years as artistic director of Canada's Stratford Festival Theatre and a distinguished career in England directing for the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre of Great Britain and on Broadway with The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. Langham recruited leading actors with whom he had worked for his inaugural plays at the Guthrie, Cyrano de Bergerac and The Taming of the Shrew, both of which were artistic and box office successes. The Langham years, 1971-77, were marked by financial stability for the Theater and deft stagings of familiar classics that enjoyed broad appeal, including the premiere of the now-traditional holiday production of A Christmas Carol. A central core of actors performed works including Oedipus the King, Love's Labor's Lost, The Matchmaker, She Stoops to Conquer, and A Streetcar Named Desire.