Attention, season ticket holders at the Guthrie Theater: Prepare for exchanges.

On Tuesday, the Guthrie announced changes that will shift the dates of one production and move it to a different performing space while dumping another show altogether. And, oh yes, two new shows will be added to the lineup.

The changes involve “A Streetcar Named Desire,” which had been slated to open Aug. 14 on the Guthrie’s McGuire Proscenium Stage. It will now run on the Wurtele Thrust Stage from July 3 to Aug. 21.

“Desire” replaces both the venue and the play dates for “She Stoops to Conquer,” which is being dumped from the Guthrie season.

These changes make way for two shows that have been added to the lineup. One is a little two-character romantic comedy, but the other promises to be a vast blockbuster.

The blockbuster first: It’s “The Great Game: Afghanistan,” an epic created a few years ago by Tricycle Theatre, one of Britain’s most famous (or notorious, depending on one’s opinion) political theaters. Twelve playwrights were each commissioned by the theater to write a 30-minute one-act about Iraq. The resulting 12 plays are performed in three sittings. The Guthrie is giving the sprawling show a kind of festival billing, running it just three weeks on the McGuire Proscenium. It opens Sept. 29.

The other new addition is Steven Dietz’s “Shooting Star,” a romantic and rueful comedy about a pair of former college lovers who bump into each other in a deserted airport lounge some 25 years after they broke up. The show, which runs from July 31 through Sept. 5, stars Sally Wingert and Mark Benninghofen.

Playwright Dietz was once one of Minnesota’s better-known young Turks of the theater. During the 1980s he was part of a local performing and writing group called Quicksilver Stage that produced a variety of plays, often very language-driven and sharp. Some of his best known were “Ten November,” a musical about the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald that he wrote with composer Eric Peltoniemi, and “Painting It Red,” another musical he wrote with Gary Rue and Leslie Ball. One of my favorites from his Minnesota period was “More Fun Than Bowling,” a very funny, civilized show.

Patrons holding tickets for “Streetcar Named Desire” and “She Stoops to Conquer” will be contacted by the theater about calendar changes and ticket exchanges. Tickets for the new additions go on sale March 26. Go here for details.