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The Guthrie Theater has announced its 50th season. The 2012-2013 line-up features a Pulitzer-Prize winning work, two Shakespeare productions by an all-male British company, and three newly-commissioned plays.

It also includes the Guthrie's first-ever staging of Eugene O'Neill's "Long Day's Journey Into Night."

This September, the Guthrie will launch a several weeks-long celebration of the work of British playwright, screenwriter and director, Christopher Hampton. Hampton is author of such plays as "The Talking Cure," and was more recently nominated for a best screenplay Oscar for "Atonement."

Guthrie artistic director Joe Dowling says part of the celebration will feature Hampton's play "Tales from Hollywood," and "Appomattox," which looks at America from the Civil War to the Civil Rights period.

Dowling says in its 50th season, the theater continues its mission of enlivening the classics, providing relevant modern plays and commissioning new work.

Mark Rylance, quoting Duluth poet Louis Jenkins in his Tony acceptance speech

The upcoming Guthrie season will also include re-staging a 2010 Yale Repertory Theatre production of "The Servant of Two Masters," starring Minneapolis actor Steven Epp, and a play about ice fishing co-written by Tony Award winning actor Mark Rylance  and Minnesota poet Louis Jenkins.

Dowling says the play, which is called "Nice Fish," is set on a lake on the last day of the ice fishing season.

The Guthrie will celebrate its 50th anniversary in May, 2013.

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The Guthrie Theater's 2012-2013 season contains a mix of Shakespeare, modern plays, and newly-commissioned work.

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