Minneapolis’ new Guthrie Theatre is almost a year old. It will have attracted 500,000 theatre-goers by the end of the season, and has changed the overall Twin Cities theatre scene. “I think what’s really been good for the rest of the theater community is — this new Guthrie shows up with its new programming and new facility, that the rest of us need to put on our best face for the audiences and for the press to come and see the work we’re doing.”