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Join us for five, four, or three plays and fall in love with A.C.T. at incredible savings. Our new season is off to a smashing start and we invite you to join us for big, bold performances in the city's most beautiful theater.
What's onstage? Fearless, intelligent, inspired productions. Dazzling world premieres. and such master artists as Olympia Dukakis, John Doyle, the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Alan Ayckbourn, and members of the San Francisco Ballet. If that weren't enough, A.C.T. subscribers enjoy amazing prices, a free seat upgrade, the best seats, and a host of incredible deals and benefits. Grab a seat and enjoy an absolutely, unabashedly theatrical adventure!
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Read a letter and a blog post from Artistic Director Carey Perloff about the 2009–10 season.
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Check out the feature story in the San Francisco Chronicle.
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WORLD PREMIERE
February 18–March 14, 2010
by Bertolt Brecht
Translated by Domenique Lozano
Directed and designed by John Doyle
Original music by Nathaniel Stookey
Visionary director John Doyle (Sweeney Todd, Company on Broadway) returns to A.C.T. to stage a spectacular new interpretation of Brecht's masterpiece of hope, humanity, and justice. Featuring Doyle's signature theatricality and original music from acclaimed avant-garde composer Nathaniel Stookey (Lemony Snicket's The Composer Is Dead), this must-see production finds an intrepid company of actors creating the play from the rubble of a war-torn society. Objects turn into set pieces, discarded articles of clothing become costumes, and shrapnel is transformed into musical instruments. In this brand-new translation, The Caucasian Chalk Circle soars with humor, romance, unexpected plot twists, and high-stakes intensity.
John Doyle is "ferociously inventive."
—The New York Times
"Gleefully irreverent and bracingly modern"
—The Times (London)
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March 25–April 18, 2010
Written and directed by Morris Panych
Cast: Marco Barricelli and Olympia Dukakis
Academy Award winner Olympia Dukakis (Steel Magnolias, A.C.T.'s Hecuba) and beloved Bay Area veteran actor Marco Barricelli return to A.C.T. in this deliciously dark comedy. When an embittered, self-involved bachelor arrives to care for the dying aunt he hasn't seen since childhood, his brief visit stretches to interminable lengths. As her health improves against all odds—and against his hopes—their relationship evolves in unexpected ways. A tour de force from the creator of the runaway hit The Overcoat, Vigil offers an uncanny balance of gallows humor and grave ruminations on family, identity, and the human condition.
"Wickedly dark . . . hilarious, quirky, and heartfelt"
—Variety
"An absolute gem . . . extremely perceptive and wise"
—The Austin Chronicle
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April 29–May 23, 2010
by Alan Ayckbourn
Directed by John Rando
Librarian Norman channels Casanova in his fervent attempts to seduce his two sisters-in-law as well as his estranged wife during a weekend family gathering. In this brilliantly calibrated comedy, famed British playwright Alan Ayckbourn applies his rollicking wit and charmed affection to a cast of disastrously imperfect characters who expose the tensions and desires that simmer beneath the surface. Alongside a transformative ensemble of A.C.T.'s finest actors, Rock 'n' Roll's Manoel Felciano (Broadway's Sweeney Todd) plays misguided lothario Norman in this "explosively hilarious" (London's Guardian) third installment of Ayckbourn's acclaimed trilogy The Norman Conquests.
"Left me helpless with hilarity"
—Daily Telegraph
"Uproarious! Hilarious and heartbreaking"
—Variety
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June 3–27, 2010
Created and staged by Carey Perloff and Val Caniparoli
To this corner of Grant and Vallejo
I’ve returned like an echo
To the lips that preferred
Then a kiss to a word
(from "Café Trieste" by Joseph Brodsky)
Conjuring a world in which love, betrayal, and hope emerge from the shadows and disappear with the clink of a glass, The Tosca Project is a world premiere dance-theater work that brings internationally acclaimed artists from San Francisco Ballet together with a cast of renowned actors. Drawing inspiration from the infamous North Beach watering hole that bears its name, and set to an exciting score of music from Hendrix to Stravinsky, this gorgeously choreographed and achingly moving event continues A.C.T.'s exploration of multidisciplinary storytelling through original large-scale works.
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Plays and artists subject to change.
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