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OUT with A.C.T. is THE premiere LGBT theater night in San Francisco

Our 2008–09 season features the most exciting names in theater today—from playwrights Tom Stoppard, José Rivera, Jane Anderson, John Guare, and Edward Albee to artists Laurie Metcalf, Judy Kaye, and JoBeth Williams—you won't want to miss OUT on a single play.

Join us on select Wednesday nights and your tickets include hosted drinks, desserts, and mingling with the cast after the show.

Five-play packages start as low as $85. A.C.T. subscribers enjoy seat upgrades, easy exchanges, and the best possible personal service. Read more about subscriber benefits.

2008–09 Season at A.C.T.

Direct from record-breaking runs on Broadway and in London, this rapturous, decades-spanning tale of passion and politics follows a wily Marxist professor in Cambridge and his Rolling Stones–obsessed protégé fighting for freedom in Soviet-dominated Prague—all to the beat of the Stones, Pink Floyd, and the Grateful Dead.

"Triumphant . . . Stoppard's finest play"
The New York Times

Emmy Award–winning playwright Jane Anderson explores hot-but issues of life and death in this riveting new tour-de-force. When Bill and Dinah, a religious Midwestern couple, visit free-spirited cousin Jeannette (Roseanne's Laurie Metcalf) and her husband, Neil, in the Oakland hills, both couples confront loss and survival in the face of explosive circumstance.

"Anderson is blessed with an amazing, adventurous cast, willing to slide off slippery emotional slopes and round dangerous curves to get to the truth."
Theatermania.com

Playwright Bing Ringling yearns to savor the sweet taste of celebrity, and he's hoping play number 844 will be his lucky break. But on opening night, Bing slips into a nightmarish phantasmagoria that shows him just how wrong things can go. This delicious dark comedy springs to life with twisted humor, rapid-fire dialogue, and outrageous plot twists.

"A bitingly funny satire by one of our theater's most inventive playwrights"
The New York Times

A.C.T. welcomes the return of Judy Kaye (A.C.T.'s Sweeney Todd) in the outrageous Broadway role that earned her a 2006 Tony Award nomination. This fresh, original musical adventure imagines the story of real-life Florence Foster Jenkins, a New York socialite and tone-deaf diva who thought she was a great soprano.

"If this performance isn't a theatrical memory to cherish, I don't know what is."
The Village Voice

War Music reignites the wrath of Greek warrior Achilles against his archrival, Agamemnon, in a wildly theatrical, totally modern interpretation of one of the mightiest conflicts of all time. A groundbreaking fusion of language, music, and movement as only A.C.T. can create.

"Brilliantly original, consummately crafted . . . it is poetry that shines with greatness"
Los Angeles Times

This brilliant, tender new work by the Academy Award–nominated screenwriter of The Motorcycle Diaries explores the ineffable nature of a love that begins in a tiny Puerto Rican village in the '50s and spans four decades to the United States.

"Rivera's writing is breathtakingly poetic"
The New York Times

This sparkling new work pairs Edward Albee's original juggernaut The Zoo Story with a freshly penned first act that probes the dark corners of a seemingly "normal" marriage. Meticulously calibrated and dangerously brutal, Peter and Jerry bares its teeth to threaten the delicately balanced world its characters inhabit.

"A thoroughly satisfying package of jagged-edged provocation"
Newsday