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GUTHRIE THEATER

818 S 2nd Street
Minneapolis, MN 55415

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About the Theatre

The Guthrie Theater opened on May 7, 1963, with a production of Hamlet directed by Sir Tyrone Guthrie, the theater’s founder. The idea for a different kind of theater sparked in 1959 during a series of conversations among Guthrie, an acclaimed theater director, and his two colleagues, Oliver Rea and Peter Zeisler, who were all disenchanted with Broadway. They envisioned a resident theater that would draw world-class artists to perform the classics with the highest professional standards. What began as a summer season of four productions supported by a minimal staff is now a complex organization that serves nearly 350,000 patrons and the Twin Cities community year-round.

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Video: Go Behind The Scenes Of Guthrie's THE HISTORY PLAYS Set Design


by Joshua Wright - March 18, 2024

Watch as Scene Shop Supervisor Jesse Delaney as he breaks down the complex build process happening in the scene shop for the History Plays: RICHARD II, HENRY IV and HENRY V at the Guthrie Theatre. ...

CABARET, THE LEHMAN TRILOGY & More Set for Guthrie Theater 2024-25 Season


by Chloe Rabinowitz - March 07, 2024

The Guthrie Theater will present eight productions for its 2024–2025 Season. See full programming and learn how to purchase tickets....

Patrick Page Will Bring ALL THE DEVILS ARE HERE Around the Country This Fall


by Stephi Wild - March 07, 2024

Patrick Page will bring his one-man show, All The Devils Are Here: How Shakespeare Invented The Villain, around the country this fall!...

Video: Go Inside Rehearsals For Shakespeare Productions in Rep at the Guthrie Theatre


by Joshua Wright - March 06, 2024

Enjoy a first look into Shakespeare's History Plays and hear from Artistic Director Joseph Haj on the significance of this epic production and the chance to revisit rotating repertory. RICHARD II, HENRY IV and HENRY V make their historic return to the Guthrie stage for the first time in over 30 year...

Guthrie Theater To Present Shakespeare's RICHARD II, HENRY IV And HENRY V In Repertory


by A.A. Cristi - February 26, 2024

Guthrie Theater will present a rotating repertory of Shakespeare's History Plays. Dive into the rich tapestry of historical dramas on stage....

Guthrie Theater To Offer Filmed Performance of HAMLET To Minnesota Schools


by Chloe Rabinowitz - February 13, 2024

The Guthrie Theater will offer a filmed performance of Shakespeare’s Hamlet and accompanying curriculum guide at no cost to Minnesota schools during the 2024–2025 school year....

Six Points Theater Presents The World Premiere Of THE MONEYLENDER'S DAUGHTER This March


by A.A. Cristi - February 09, 2024

Discover the untold story of Shylock and his daughter Jessica in the world premiere of 'The Moneylender's Daughter' at Six Points Theater. ...

Guthrie Theater to Present Free Actor Training Intensive For Twin Cities Artists


by Chloe Rabinowitz - February 08, 2024

The Guthrie Theater is accepting applications for Guthrie Actors Lab, a free, three-week professional training intensive for early to mid-career artists based in the Twin Cities....

Review: DIAL M FOR MURDER at Guthrie Theater


by Joe Sarafolean - February 07, 2024

What did our critic think of DIAL M FOR MURDER at Guthrie Theater? A perfectly planned murder, a water tight alibi, and a sizable fortune sitting just out of grasp. What could go wrong?...

Ten Thousand Things Theater Company to Bring Lauren Yee's THE HATMAKER'S WIFE To Minnesota Audiences


by Chloe Rabinowitz - February 02, 2024

Ten Thousand Things Theater Company brings Lauren Yee’s whimsical and surreal THE HATMAKER’S WIFE to audiences in numerous locations throughout the Twin Cities. ...

Past Shows

'Art'
12/16 - 1/28/2024


This intelligent and witty Tony Award-winning play by Yasmina Reza asks the question, “What does our taste in art say about who we are as ...

Emma
6/18 - 8/21/2022

Sweat
7/16 - 8/21/2022

A RAISIN IN THE SUN
4/30 - 6/5/2022

The Tempest
2/26 - 4/16/2022


There could scarcely be a more provocative start to the season—or a more vivid way to experience Shakespeare’s beloved final play. Unique staging that transports ...

A Christmas Carol
A Christmas Carol
11/10 - 12/27/2021


A timeless holiday tale:A miserly and miserable man, Ebenezer Scrooge greets each Christmas with Bah! Humbug! until he is visited one Christmas Eve by the ...


The event reimagines Mac's beloved annual extravaganza Holiday Sauce - which the Los Angeles Times called "a present from the island of misfit toys ... ...

Noura
1/11 - 2/16/2020


McGuire Proscenium Stage: Noura...

Steel Magnolias
10/26 - 12/15/2019


The action is set in Truvy’s beauty salon in Chinquapin, Louisiana, where all the ladies who are “anybody” come to have their hair done. Helped ...

The Glass Menagerie
9/14 - 10/27/2019


Amanda Wingfield is a faded, tragic remnant of Southern gentility who lives in poverty in a dingy St. Louis apartment with her son, Tom, and ...

GUYS & DOLLS
GUYS & DOLLS
6/22 - 8/25/2019


The slickest high rollers are in town, and they’re depending on Nathan Detroit to score a secret spot for their floating craps game. Throw in ...

Guys and Dolls
6/22 - 8/25/2019


Considered by many to be the perfect musical comedy, Guys and Dolls ran for 1,200 performances when it opened on Broadway in 1950. It received ...

Metamorphoses
4/13 - 5/19/2019


Wurtele Thrust Stage: Mary Zimmerman; trans: David R. Slavitt....

Cyrano de Bergerac
3/16 - 5/5/2019


An adventure based on the legend of 17th Century French dramatist and duelist Savinien de Bergerac, now known the world over as Cyrano. Afflicted with ...

The Great Leap
1/12 - 2/10/2019


McGuire Proscenium Stage: Lauren Yee....

Noises Off
10/27 - 12/16/2018


Noises Off is a hilarious farce by Michael Frayn that takes you behind the scenes of a chaotic theatre production. The story unfolds in three ...

Playing with Fire
9/15 - 10/27/2018


Barbara Field....


He’s young, he’s broke, his landlord’s knocking at the door, and he’s just found out his wife is going to have a baby. To make ...

WEST SIDE STORY
6/16 - 8/26/2018


More than fifty years ago one musical changed theater forever. Now it's back, and mesmerizing audiences once again. From the first note to the final ...

Familiar
3/10 - 4/14/2018


Danai Gurira; dir: Rebecca Taichman....

Indecent
2/17 - 3/24/2018


INDECENT, by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel, is a deeply moving play inspired by the true events surrounding the controversial 1923 Broadway debut of Sholem ...

Blithe Spirit
11/25 - 1/14/2018


Blithe Spirit is a classic comedy play, written by Noël Coward in 1941. The play follows the story of novelist Charles Condomine who, hoping to ...

Watch on the Rhine
9/30 - 11/5/2017


Four-time Academy Award nominee and Golden Globe winner Marsha Mason (The Goodbye Girl) leads an ensemble cast as Fanny Farrelly in Lillian Hellman's suspenseful masterpiece ...

Romeo and Juliet
9/9 - 10/28/2017


William Shakespeare; dir: Joseph Haj....

Native Gardens
7/15 - 8/20/2017


Gardens and cultures clash, turning friendly neighbors into feuding enemies in this funny world premiere by the author of The Book Club Play. Pablo, a ...


Dive into the world of artistic obsession and the complexities of creativity with Sunday in the Park with George, the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning ...

The Holler Sessions
8/4 - 8/20/2017


An explosive Kansas City DJ broadcasts his articulate, profane and impassioned testimony to American jazz in an 80-minute music-filled interactive experience. "A euphoric and heartrending ...

Refugia
5/13 - 6/11/2017


The Moving Company ; dir: Dominique Serrand....

The Bluest Eye
4/15 - 5/21/2017


This American classic is a story about eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove who wants nothing more than to be loved. Instead, she's abused. Blaming her dark skin, ...

Echo War
3/17 - 4/2/2017


Dowling Studio:...

King Lear
2/11 - 4/2/2017


William Shakespeare; dir: Joseph Haj. Wurtele Thrust Stage:...

The Royal Family
1/28 - 3/19/2017


Edna Ferber, George S. Kaufman; dir: Rachel Chavkin. McGuire Proscenium:...

We Are Proud to Present
2/21 - 3/12/2017


In a play that reads like a grim parody of AVLT's best works, an ensemble of American actors come together to make a play about ...


Ensemble , Diogo Lopes; dir: Diogo Lopes, Isabel Nelson. Dowling Studio:...

The Lion in Winter
11/19 - 12/31/2016


James Goldman; dir: Kevin Moriarty....

The Lion in Winter
11/19 - 12/31/2016


James Goldman; dir: Kevin Moriarty....

7th House Theater
11/18 - 12/4/2016


World Premiere...

7th House Theater
11/18 - 12/4/2016


World Premiere...

The Parchman Hour
10/1 - 11/6/2016


Mike Wiley; dir: Patricia McGregor....

The Parchman Hour
10/1 - 11/6/2016


Mike Wiley; dir: Patricia McGregor....

Sense and Sensibility
9/10 - 10/29/2016


adapt: Kate Hamill from Jane Austen; dir: Sarah Rasmussen. A fresh adaptation of Austen’s treasured novel Full of humor and emotional depth, a fresh adaptation ...

Sense and Sensibility
9/10 - 10/29/2016


"Sense and Sensibility" by Jon Jory, adapted from the novel by Jane Austen (February 17 – March 18, 2012) Fortune lost to fate. Romance lost ...

Hold These Truths
10/7 - 10/23/2016


Elizabeth Price Kenan Theatre: Jeanne Sakata; dir: Lisa Rothe....

Hold These Truths
10/7 - 10/23/2016


Elizabeth Price Kenan Theatre: Jeanne Sakata; dir: Lisa Rothe....


Josef Evans; dir: Maren Ward....


Josef Evans; dir: Maren Ward....

Disgraced
7/16 - 8/28/2016


Ayad Akhtar; dir: TBD ....

Disgraced
7/16 - 8/28/2016


Ayad Akhtar; dir: TBD ....

South Pacific
6/18 - 8/28/2016


Oscar Hammerstein II, Joshua Logan; lyrics: Oscar Hammerstein II; music: Richard Rogers; dir: Joseph Haj....


dir: Mark DeChiazza....

Trouble in Mind
5/7 - 6/5/2016


Written on the cusp of the Civil Rights Movement, Trouble in Mind explores the strained relationships of a newly integrated cast rehearsing a bold anti-lynching ...


The company ; dir: Jason Ballweber....

Harvey
4/9 - 5/15/2016


When Elwood P. Dowd starts to introduce his imaginary friend, Harvey, a six-and-a-half-foot rabbit, to guests at a society party, his sister, Veta, has seen ...

Telling: Minnesota 2016
4/29 - 5/1/2016


The Critic
2/23 - 3/27/2016


adapt: Jeffrey Hatcher from Richard Brinsley Sheridan; dir: Michael Kahn....

The Real Inspector Hound
2/23 - 3/27/2016


Rave reviews greeted this masterpiece of farce when it was recently revived in London. Feuding theatre critics Birdboot and Moon, the first a fusty philanderer ...

You for Me for You
2/19 - 3/6/2016


WORLD PREMIERE by Mia Chung Directed by Yury Urnov In Association with Ma-Yi Theater Company Two North Korean sisters—facing starvation at the hands of a ...

Pericles
1/16 - 2/21/2016


Sailors and pirates, nuns and hookers, innocent virgins and evil kings--seven actors play forty roles in Shakespeare's adventure tale about a shattered family trying to ...

TBD - from 7th House Theater
12/20 - 1/3/2016


Grant Sorenson; lyrics: David Darrow; music: David Darrow; dir: Grant Sorenson....

The Cocoanuts
11/14 - 1/3/2016


adapt: Mark Bedard, Gregg Coffin from George S. Kaufman; lyrics: Irving Berlin; music: Irving Berlin; dir: David Ivers....

The Events
9/30 - 11/1/2015


A forest rings with the sound of gunfire. Screams echo through corridors. At Claire’s choir rehearsal, something terrible happens… David Greig’s daring new play is ...

To Kill a Mockingbird
9/12 - 10/18/2015


adapt: Christopher Sergel from Harper Lee; dir: John Miller-Stephany....

Stage Kiss
7/18 - 8/30/2015


Sarah Ruhl; dir: Casey Stangl....

THE MUSIC MAN
6/20 - 8/23/2015


The Music Man, a classic American musical brimming with small-town charm and a touch of con artistry, follows the fast-talking Harold Hill. He arrives in ...

Juno and the PayC*CK
5/23 - 6/28/2015


The Vortex entry in ABQ's Irish Theatre Festival is one of the epic plays of the 20th century. O'Casey's gritty tale of poverty, survival, and ...

The Crucible
4/11 - 5/24/2015


A witch hunt is beginning in Salem. Raised to be seen and not heard, a group of young women suddenly find their words have a ...


What will endure when the cataclysm arrives – when the grid fails, society crumbles, and we’re faced with the task of rebuilding? Anne Washburn’s imaginative ...

A Midsummer Night's Dream
2/7 - 3/29/2015


William Shakespeare; dir: David Bolger, Joe Dowling....

The C*CKtail Hour
11/22 - 1/4/2015


The time is the mid '70s, the place a city in upstate New York. John, a playwright, returns to his family’s house, bringing with him ...

McGuire Proscenium Stage:
7/19 - 8/31/2014


Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike Christopher Durang; dir: Joel Sass....

Wurtele Thrust Stage:
6/28 - 8/31/2014


My Fair Lady Alan Jay Lerner; music: Frederick Loewe; dir: Joe Dowling....


William Shakespeare, Tom Stoppard; dir: Ian Belknap, John Rando....

Othello
3/8 - 4/20/2014


Wurtele Thrust Stage: William Shakespeare; dir: Marion McClinton....

The Mountaintop
3/28 - 4/19/2014


The night before his untimely death, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. returns to his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis after delivering a speech ...


McGuire Proscenium Stage: adapt: Emma Rice from Carl Grose, Anna Maria Murphy; dir: Emma Rice....

Freud's Last Session
2/25 - 3/16/2014


FREUD’S LAST SESSION centers on legendary psychoanalyst Dr. Sigmund Freud who invites the young, rising Oxford Don C.S. Lewis to his home in London. On ...

Skiing on Broken Glass
10/29 - 11/17/2013


Dowling Studio: David Goldstein; dir: Joe Dowling....

Tribes
10/5 - 11/10/2013


McGuire Proscenium Stage: Nina Raine; dir: Wendy Goldberg....

Uncle Vanya
9/14 - 10/27/2013


Sonya and her uncle Vanya have devoted their lives to managing the family farm in isolation, but when her celebrated, ailing father and his charismatic ...

Born Yesterday
Born Yesterday
7/6 - 8/31/2013


From celebrated entertainer Garson Kanin, with a golden career spanning more than 60 years with credits including Tracy and Hepburn classics Adam’s Rib and Pat ...

Clybourne Park
Clybourne Park
6/1 - 8/4/2013


Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the 2012 Tony Award for Best Play, Bruce Norris’ satiric comedy deals with race and class in response to ...

The Primrose Path
4/27 - 6/15/2013


Wurtele Thrust Stage: - Crispin Whittell; dir: Roger Rees....

An Iliad
5/4 - 5/26/2013


On a bare stage, a storyteller emerges from the back of the theatre to re-tell The Iliad, one of the oldest stories in Western civilization. ...

Nice Fish
4/6 - 5/18/2013


McGuire Proscenium Stage: - Louis Jenkins, Mark Rylance; dir: Mark Rylance, Claire Van Kampen....


Wurtele Thrust Stage: - William Shakespeare; dir: Edward Hall....

Twelfth Night and The Taming of the Shrew


This season the Guthrie welcomes internationally acclaimed Propeller to present Twelfth Night and The Taming of the Shrew in repertory, two comedies full of mistaken ...


Dowling Studio: - R.A. Shiomi; dir: Rick Shiomi....

Other Desert Cities
Other Desert Cities
2/9 - 3/24/2013


Winner of the 2012 Drama League Award and Tony Award nominee for Best Play, Other Desert Cities was hailed by The New York Times as ...

Yellow Fever
Yellow Fever
3/8 - 3/24/2013


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Buzzer
Buzzer
2/8 - 3/3/2013


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Dowling Studio: - Tracey Scott Wilson; dir: Marion McClinton....

Long Day's Journey Into Night


For the first time in its 50-year history, the Guthrie will present this Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning family drama – featuring acting dream team ...

As You Like It
As You Like It
1/12 - 2/3/2013


An idyllic Forest of Arden provides the lush backdrop for Shakespeare's glorious romantic comedy of courtiers, clowns, philosophers and provincials—all bewitched by the trials and ...


Dowling Studio: - William Shakespeare; dir: Dan Rothenberg....

The Servant of Two Masters
The Servant of Two Masters
12/1 - 1/20/2013


A classic comic masterpiece, directed by former Guthrie company member Christopher Bayes and starring comedic genius Steven Epp (Theatre de la Jeune Lune), The Servant ...

A Christmas Carol
A Christmas Carol
11/13 - 12/29/2012


Joe Chvala directs this season’s production of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, the perennial favorite that received a new adaptation by Crispin Whittell in 2010 ...

Embers
Embers
10/9 - 10/27/2012


As a young man, Konrad ran away, leaving his best friend Henrik and Henrik's wife Krisztina with no explanation. "Coward," she calls him. Forty-one years, ...

Tales from Hollywood
Tales from Hollywood
9/15 - 10/27/2012


Lights! Camera! Aktion! Where did German writers and other artists go when they escaped the rise of the Third Reich? To Hollywood, of course. Hampton ...

The Brothers Size
The Brothers Size
9/7 - 9/29/2012


Following the success last year of Tarell Alvin McCraney's In the Red and Brown Water, Pillsbury House Theatre and The Mount Curve Company are coming ...

The Sunshine Boys
The Sunshine Boys
7/7 - 9/2/2012


One of the most highly anticipated events of the season will be the union of Guthrie dream team Raye Birk (Faith Healer, Third) and Peter ...

Trick Boxing
Trick Boxing
8/17 - 9/1/2012


Dancing Danny is caught between a rock and a hard place. Indebted to a street tough who saved his life, Danny reluctantly becomes a boxer ...

Roman Holiday
Roman Holiday
6/9 - 8/19/2012


More than 50 years after the making of the romantic comedy film, the story returns – this time to the stage – in a musical ...

Anytown
Anytown
6/21 - 6/24/2012


Family ties – whether they come from a real family or a family of choice – are at the heart of Anytown, a unique collaboration ...

The Amen Corner
The Amen Corner
5/5 - 6/17/2012


This season the Guthrie welcomes the return of the acclaimed Penumbra Theatre Company – which last brought audiences productions of Gem of the Ocean, A ...

Are You Now or Have You Ever Been


The year is 1953 in the Harlem apartment of Negro writer Langston Hughes. Unable to sleep he gets up and begins to write a poem, ...


A fictional account of the demons and dilemmas faced by Langston Hughes while attempting to write a poem on the eve of his appearance before ...

Time Stands Still
Time Stands Still
4/7 - 5/20/2012


From the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer of Dinner with Friends is a moving portrait about James and Sarah, a journalist and photographer, coping with changes in ...

Judy Collins


Judy Collins has thrilled audiences worldwide with her unique blend of interpretative folksongs and contemporary themes in a career has spans more than 50 years. ...

NT Live: She Stoops to Conquer


To come to my house, to call for what he likes, to turn me out of my own chair, to insult the family, to order ...

Hay Fever
3/10 - 4/22/2012

The Birds
2/25 - 4/8/2012

NT Live: The Comedy of Errors


I in earth, in heaven, or in hell? Sleeping or waking? mad or well advised? Known unto these, and to myself disguised! Two sets of ...

End of the Rainbow
1/28 - 3/11/2012

NT Live: Travelling Light


How had a 22-year-old pretentious layabout made a discovery that would elude every other cinematic pioneer for years to come? In a remote village in ...

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
1/14 - 2/26/2012

Mike Birbiglia's My Girlfriend's Boyfriend


In Mike Birbiglia's My Girlfriend's Boyfriend, Mike shares a lifetime of romantic blunders and miscues that most adults would spend a lifetime trying to forget. ...

Julius Caesar
1/14 - 2/5/2012

Independence
Independence
1/6 - 1/29/2012


Minnesota playwright Lee Blessing creates a vivid, tender and often funny family portrait. An emergency reunites three sisters -- Kess, a gay professor living in ...

Keb Mo
Keb Mo
1/23


Grammy-award winning singer/songwriter/guitarist Keb Mo returns with a new album The Reflection. The highly-anticipated collection is his first studio release since his 2006 album, Suitcase, ...

Charley's Aunt
Charley's Aunt
11/26 - 1/15/2012


One of the most popular British plays of the 19th century, and still widely regarded as one of the most sensational and entertaining farces of ...

NT Live: Collaborators


Moscow, 1938. A dangerous place to have a sense of humour; even more so a sense of freedom. Mikhail Bulgakov, living among dissidents, stalked by ...

A Christmas Carol
A Christmas Carol
11/19 - 12/30/2011


For more than 35 years audiences have treasured the Guthrie's A Christmas Carol, making it a tradition not to be missed. Last season the Guthrie ...

The Edge of our Bodies
The Edge of our Bodies
10/22 - 11/20/2011


From Obie Award-winning playwright and novelist Adam Rapp, one of the nation's most provocative young writers, is this intimate one-character play about a 16-year-old girl ...

The Burial at Thebes
The Burial at Thebes
9/24 - 11/6/2011


Irish Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney delivers an exquisite adaptation of Sophocles' Antigone, reviving the Greek tale of love and self-sacrifice for today's theatergoer. As with ...

Much Ado About Nothing
Much Ado About Nothing
9/10 - 11/5/2011


Is falling in love only for the young? Not according to Joe Dowling's take on Shakespeare's romantic comedy Much Ado About Nothing. The play centers ...

Reasons to be Pretty
Reasons to be Pretty
9/16 - 10/2/2011


reasons to be pretty centers on four young working-class friends and lovers who become increasingly dissatisfied with their dead-end lives and each other. A commentary ...

H.M.S. Pinafore
H.M.S. Pinafore
6/18 - 8/28/2011


Her Majesty's Ship Pinafore is setting sail for the splash hit event of the summer! Gilbert and Sullivan's first blockbuster is among the most crowd-pleasing ...

God of Carnage
God of Carnage
5/28 - 8/7/2011


God of Carnage begins as two highly strung couples, Alan and Annette Raleigh and Michael and Veronica Novak, meet for a civil discussion about a ...

Anytown
Anytown
6/21 - 6/24/2011


Family ties – whether they come from a real family or a family of choice – are at the heart of Anytown, a unique collaboration ...

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Babble Lab in Minneapolis / St. Paul Babble Lab
Children's Theatre Company (3/9 - 4/14)
Brian Culbertson: The Trilogy Tour in Minneapolis / St. Paul Brian Culbertson: The Trilogy Tour
Pantages Theatre (3/28 - 3/28)
This Random World in Minneapolis / St. Paul This Random World
Theatre B (5/3 - 5/19)
Next to Normal in Minneapolis / St. Paul Next to Normal
Duluth Playhouse (3/15 - 3/31)
Mike Birbiglia – Please Stop The Ride in Minneapolis / St. Paul Mike Birbiglia – Please Stop The Ride
State Theatre (10/20 - 10/20)
Disney's The Lion King in Minneapolis / St. Paul Disney's The Lion King
Orpheum Theatre (3/27 - 4/28)
Broadway Dancin' in Minneapolis / St. Paul Broadway Dancin'
Collide Theatrical Dance Company (4/20 - 4/21)
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