ACT Presents PROOF, 3/9-4/1; Announces New Season & Classes

ACT'S next play Proof by David Auburn and directed by Mike Faust opens in two weeks on Friday March 9.

Shows are Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 7 PM and Sunday afternoon at 3. Tickets are $15 for adults and $13 for seniors/military/students. Buy individual tickets online or call 868-4913. 

This is an award winning play, but it is not for everyone. There are several f words used in the play.

Winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award for Best Play. On the eve of her twenty-fifth birthday, Catherine, a troubled young woman, has spent years caring for her brilliant but unstable father, a famous mathematician. Now, following his death, she must deal with her own volatile emotions; the arrival of her estranged sister, Claire; and the attentions of Hal, a former student of her father's who hopes to find valuable work in the 103 notebooks that her father left behind. Over the long weekend that follows, a burgeoning romance and the discovery of a mysterious notebook draw Catherine into the most difficult problem of all: How much of her father's madness—or genius—will she inherit?

ACT's Board just decided on the season for next year. The 2012-2013 season includes:

On Golden Pond by Ernest Thompson: September 21 - October 21, 2012

An award winning play that debuted on Broadway in 1979. A retired couple, Ethel and Norman Thayer, spend every summer at their home on Golden Pond. This year, their adult daughter visits, bringing along her 13-year-old son. The turbulent relationship between father and daughter, the generation gap between young and old, and the difficulties facing a couple in the twilight years of a long marriage, all combine to give this play a wonderful perspectice on family and on life.

My Three Angels by Samuel and Bella Spewack: November 23 - December 23, 2012

Directed by Don Gomes

A Christmas comedy set in French Guiana, a region where on Christmas Eve the temperature has graciously dropped to 104 degrees. A family faces a dire situation, but their plight is heard by three angels up above -- actually three warm-hearted convicts on work release working on the family's roof. The convicts are passionate believers in true justice, and do their best to set matters right. A captivating and comedic holiday treasure also known as "We're No Angels."

A Shayna Maedel by Barbara Lebow: January 25 - February 17, 2013

A portrait of a family, which conveys the aftermath of the Holocaust through a poignant, imaginatively conceived examination of one divided family's experience. Set in New York City after World War II, the play has been widely produced by America's leading regional theatres, and went on to become a long-run Off-Broadway success.

At Home With The Clarks by Rand Higbee: March 8 - 31, 2013

Directed by Nate Benson

The world premier of a new play by Rand Higbee, author of  The Head That Wouldn't Die. A traditional 1960s American family faces seemmingly insurmountable difficulties involving time travel, nuclear war and a world overrun by zombies! 

Nunsense by Dan Goggin: April 26 - May 19, 2013

A zany musical which was awarded Best Off Broadway Musical in its original New York production. The show is a fund raiser put on by Catholic nons, the Little Sisters of Hoboken, to raise money to bury sisters accidently poisoned by the convent cook, Sister Julia. 

For individual or season tickets visit http://www.actalaska.org/2012-13.php.

ACT is offering Intermediate Ideas: An Intermediate Acting Class for Teens and Adults taught by Linda Benson on six Saturdays from March 24 - April 28 from 10 AM to Noon. Call 344-4713 or email Kate Williams, education coordinator,at actfamily@gci.net for more information or to sign up. For class details visit http://www.actalaska.org/education.php.

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