Noël Coward’s Brief Encounter—critics have called this production by Britain’s Kneehigh Theatre one of the top 10 of 2009—at last lands on the Guthrie’s proscenium stage. In Emma Rice’s adaptation of the 1945 film, song, dance, and multimedia effects—perceived only by the audience—express the contained passions of a man and woman (each married to someone else) who meet in a train station. Through April 3, $29–$65, Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis.



