ACT to Feature Pinter Festival & Represent! Multicultural Playwrights Festival this Summer!
by Nicole Rosky
- Jun 4, 2012
ACT - A Contemporary Theatre's Mainstage switches from the farcical marriage comedy of Lewis Black's One Slight Hitch to the dark and haunting humor of Harold Pinter. The Hansberry Project also brings to the stage Seattle's second Multicultural Playwrights Festival. The Seagull Project presents their first in a series of Russian readings with The Great Soul of Russia, and in The Construction Zone, ACT will feature Steven Dietz and his new play, A Year Without Summer.
THE PINTER FESTIVAL at ACT Theatre Announces Casting
by Harmony Wheeler
- Apr 13, 2012
Seattle's ACT - A Contemporary Theatre announces that the casting and directors for the summer of 2012 Pinter Festival have been finalized. Performances begin in July when eleven actors perform a double-bill of The Dumb Waiter and Celebration, then adding Old Times and No Man's Land to the schedule in August. Distinguished British director Penny Cherns will direct No Man's Land and nationally renowned actors Peter Crook and Frank Corrado appear in multiple productions alongside such Seattle favorites as Anne Allgood, Julie Briskman, Darragh Kennan, Charles Leggett, and more.
The Flying Karamazov Brothers Return To ACT
by BWW
News Desk
- Jan 6, 2012
ACT - A Contemporary Theatre launches 2012 with returning favorites, multi-disciplinary artistic collaborations and initiatives including a new play reading series called The Construction Zone.
The Flying Karamazov Brothers Return To ACT
by Gabrielle Sierra
- Dec 1, 2011
ACT - A Contemporary Theatre launches 2012 with returning favorites, multi-disciplinary artistic collaborations and initiatives including a new play reading series called The Construction Zone.
ACT's Holiday Season Line-Up Features A CHRISTMAS CAROL & More
by Kelsey Denette
- Oct 18, 2011
ACT - A Contemporary Theatre wraps up 2012 with performances that both celebrate the holidays and provide an artful array of seasonal alternatives. With offerings that range from a crime thriller to a Christmas tradition, teen angst to a nativity parody, tell-all shorts to Pinter treasures and more, the year-end promises another unforgettable series of live events at the corner of 7th and Union.
ACT Announces Upcoming Schedule, Begins With Pilgrims Musa and Sheri...
by Gabrielle Sierra
- Jun 22, 2011
A Contemporary Theatre serves up plenty of new works in the month of July, starting with the continuation of the very sexy, 'very now' World Premiere of Pilgrims Musa and Sheri in the New World by acclaimed local playwright Yussef El Guindi, followed by scorching performances produced from The Central Heating Lab: Pinter Fortnightly, featuring a first for Seattle audiences - a reading of Grace by Doug Lucie; the return of The Love Markets with Summer Nacht; and the debut of REPRESENT!
ACT Announces June Line-Up
by Nicole Rosky
- May 11, 2011
ACT - A Contemporary Theatre opens summer with the World Premiere of Pilgrims Musa and Sheri in the New World by acclaimed local playwright Yussef El Guindi. The Central Heating Lab keeps things cooking with the debut of a new cabaret show by Seattle luminaries, Jayne Muirhead and John Engerman, It's In the Cards; the return of RAWSTOCK Short Film Festival with another installment of grindhouse favorites; and staged readings with the wildly popular Pinter Fortnightly series and TheFilmSchool's amazing-and amazingly free!-Caught in the ACT screenplay series. Short Stories Live brings the magic of fairy tales to Town Hall, while award-winning poets take to the stage in Copper Canyon's A Longing for Light. And it wouldn't be June without the return of The Hansberry Project's Juneteenth Celebration, featuring actress, playwright, director and activist Regina Taylor!
North Coast Repertory Theatre Presents THE DRAWER BOY 2/26-3/20
by Kelsey Denette
- Feb 15, 2011
Full of delightfully wry humor and mystery, drama and humanity, Michael Healey's The Drawer Boy, celebrates the true meaning of friendship and the transformative power of storytelling. The play created a phenomenon at Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre and is one of the most successful plays in Canadian theatre history. In 2001 it made Time Magazine's top ten list as 'a new classic.'
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