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Anchorage, AK 99518


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MATILDA THE MUSICAL Comes to Alaska PAC Next Month


by Stephi Wild - April 18, 2024

Matilda the Musical comes to Alaska PAC next month. Performances run May 9, 2024 - May 19, 2024 in the Sydney Laurence Theatre....

Winners Announced For The 2023 BroadwayWorld Anchorage Awards


by BWW Awards - January 31, 2024

Winners have been announced for the 2023 BroadwayWorld Anchorage Awards! The 2023 Regional Awards honor regional productions, touring shows, and more which had their first performance between October 1, 2022 through September 30, 2023. ...

Winners Announced For The 2022 BroadwayWorld Anchorage Awards


by BWW Awards - January 04, 2023

The winners have been announced for the 2022 BroadwayWorld Anchorage Awards, honoring the best in regional productions, touring shows, and more which had their first performance between October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2022....

12 Days Left To Vote For The 2022 BroadwayWorld Anchorage Awards; TBA Theatre Leads Favorite Local Theatre!


by BWW - December 19, 2022

The latest standings as of Monday, December 19th, have been released for the 2022 BroadwayWorld Anchorage Awards! Nominations were reader-submitted and now our readers get to vote for their favorites....

Latest Stats Released For The 2022 BroadwayWorld Anchorage Awards; at Sparkles Productions Leads Best Ensemble Performance!


by BWW - December 12, 2022

The latest standings as of Monday, December 12th, have been released for the 2022 BroadwayWorld Anchorage Awards! Nominations were reader-submitted and now our readers get to vote for their favorites....

Latest Standings Released For The 2022 BroadwayWorld Anchorage Awards; TBA Theatre Academy Leads Favorite Local Theatre!


by BWW - December 05, 2022

The latest standings as of Monday, December 5th, have been released for the 2022 BroadwayWorld Anchorage Awards! Nominations were reader-submitted and now our readers get to vote for their favorites....

Inaugural Support From Ruth Hart Endowment Funds Anchorage Community Theatre's ANNIE


by A.A. Cristi - November 30, 2022

Anchorage Community Theatre (ACT) is the first beneficiary of the Sydney Laurence Theatre Production Support Program made possible by the Ruth Hart Fund, administered through the Alaska Community Foundation....

First Stats Released For The BroadwayWorld Anchorage Awards; Mad Myrna's ROCKY HORROR Leads Best Musical


by BWW Staff - November 21, 2022

The first live standings have been announced for the 2022 BroadwayWorld Anchorage Awards! Nominations were reader-submitted and now our readers get to vote for their favorites....

Past Shows

Little Women
9/20 - 9/22/2024

Matilda the Musical
5/9 - 5/19/2024


book: Dennis Kelly; lyrics: Tim Minchin; music: Tim Minchin; dir: Matthew Warchus....

Our Town
Our Town
3/15 - 3/31/2024


Described by Edward Albee as "the greatest American play ever written," Our Town presents the small town of Grover’s Corners in three acts.

The Lifespan of a Fact
The Lifespan of a Fact
1/12 - 1/28/2024


Jim Fingal is a fresh-out-of-Harvard fact checker for a prominent but sinking New York magazine. John D’Agata is a talented writer with a transcendent essay ...

A Christmas Carol
A Christmas Carol
11/24 - 12/17/2023


An adaptation of the story of Ebenezer Scrooge’s journey from an embittered, ungenerous creature into a giving, caring human being at the hands of three ...

Arsenic and Old Lace
Arsenic and Old Lace
9/8 - 10/1/2023


Drama critic Mortimer Brewster’s engagement announcement is upended when he discovers a corpse in his elderly aunts’ window seat. Mortimer rushes to tell Abby and ...

Wait Until Dark
Wait Until Dark
5/5 - 5/28/2023


A sinister con man, Roat, and two ex-convicts, Mike and Carlino, are about to meet their match. They have traced the location of a mysterious ...

They Promised Her the Moon
They Promised Her the Moon
3/3 - 3/26/2023


The first American woman to test for space flight, Jerrie Cobb steps into an isolation tank for a record-breaking nine hours as her memories unfold ...

Annie
12/2 - 12/18/2022


Leaping Lizards! Based on the popular comic strip by Harold Gray, Annie has become a worldwide phenomenon and was the winner of seven Tony Awards, ...

The Sensuous Senator
The Sensuous Senator
9/9 - 10/2/2022


Senator Douglas is running for President on a "morality" platform, but when his wife Lois leaves to attend a conference in Chicago he does not ...

The Claw
The Claw
5/13 - 5/29/2022


When an out-of-order claw game suddenly turns back on, all of the toys are ecstatic! Well all of the toys except for Dot, a terrified ...

Ordinary Days
Ordinary Days
3/18 - 4/3/2022


"Ordinary Days" tells the story of four young New Yorkers whose lives intersect as they search for fulfillment, happiness, love, and cabs. Through a score ...

Stargirl
Stargirl
1/28 - 2/20/2022


All is copacetic in the fall of the new school year as junior Leo Borlock settles in to produce his moderately popular school TV show, ...

A Very Mixed-Up Christmas Pageant


What happens when kids show up to perform a traditional Christmas Pageant in their Halloween costumes?! That's what happens in this contemporary spin on a ...

Sleuth
4/2 - 4/18/2021


The ultimate game of cat-and-mouse is played out in a cozy Enlgish country house owned by celebrated mystery writer, Andrew Wyke (Dave Souza). Invited guest ...

The Glass Menagerie
3/11 - 3/28/2021


Anchorage Community Theatre Tennessee Williams...

Father of the Bride
11/12 - 12/6/2020


Anchorage Community Theatre Caroline Francke...

The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
11/29 - 12/22/2019


In this classic Christmas comedy, a mother struggling to put on a church Christmas pageant is faced with casting the Herdman kidsprobably the most inventively ...

Constance & Sinestra and the Cabinet of Screams


This fall, feast your eyes on an award-nominated new musical about love, loss, bonbons, and taxidermy. Constance and Sinestra live with their Mad Dad on ...

And in This Corner: Cassius Clay


And in This Corner: Cassius Clay is a bold and refreshing look at the early years of Muhammad Ali’s life. This play reminds us of ...

Shakespeare in Hollywood
Shakespeare in Hollywood
3/2 - 3/25/2018


It’s 1934 and prolific theatre director Max Reinhardt is given a shot at directing A Midsummer Night’s Dream – the movie. Oberon and Puck have ...

Young Jane Eyre
Young Jane Eyre
1/19 - 2/11/2018


This play is exactly what it sounds like; a closer look at the childhood of Charlotte Brontë’s most beloved heroine. In this family oriented and ...

Let Nothing You Dismay
Let Nothing You Dismay
11/24 - 12/1/2017


Let Nothing You Dismay is a hilarious new Christmas comedy about a young couple waiting for the birth of their baby, but when the entire ...

Silver Thaw
Silver Thaw
9/15 - 10/8/2017


ACT is thrilled to present the world premiere of a new play by local playwright Schatzie Schaefers. The play is a murder mystery full of ...

Things My Mother Taught Me
Things My Mother Taught Me
5/5 - 5/28/2017


A young couple. A new apartment. A missing moving van. Four parents (surprise!). This is the recipe for a hilarious and heartfelt story about a ...

The Best of Everything
The Best of Everything
3/24 - 4/9/2017


Adapted from Rona Jaffe's 1958 novel, The Best of Everything gives us a glimpse into the Mad Men era through the eyes of the women. ...

Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill


Just four months before her death Billie Holiday performed at Emerson's Bar and Grill. This small intimate musical gives us a glimpse into that performance. ...

The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe


C.S. Lewis's beloved novel charms us with the tale of four young children sent to an old farmhouse in the English countryside during the Second ...

Laura
Laura
9/23 - 10/16/2016


Laura, based on the novel by Vera Caspary was adapted into a film of the same name in the 1940's. This murder mystery follows a ...

Deathtrap
Deathtrap
4/15 - 5/14/2016


Deathtrap is a play written by Ira Levin in 1978 with many plot twists and which references itself as a play within a play. It ...

Visit to a Small Planet
Visit to a Small Planet
3/4 - 3/27/2016


Gore Vidal wrote this comic satire (originally a live television drama) to lampoon the Cold War and humanity’s self-destructive preoccupation with world domination. In an ...

Over the River and Through the Woods


Over the River and Through the Woods is a play written by Joe DiPietro, published in 1998. It played at the John Houseman Theatre for ...

The Secret Garden
The Secret Garden
11/20 - 12/20/2015


The Secret Garden, a musical adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett's classic children's novel, takes you on a journey of healing and self-discovery. The music and ...

Blithe Spirit
Blithe Spirit
10/9 - 11/1/2015


Blithe Spirit is a comic play by Noël Coward. The play concerns the socialite and novelist Charles Condomine, who invites the eccentric medium and clairvoyant, ...

Bus Stop
Bus Stop
8/21 - 9/20/2015


Bus Stop is a 1955 play by William Inge. The 1956 film of the same name is only loosely based on it....

The Fox on the Fairway
The Fox on the Fairway
4/24 - 5/18/2015


Ken Ludwig (Lend Me A Tenor, Moon Over Buffalo) hits a hole-in-one with his tribute to the great English farces of the 1930s and 1940s. ...

A Day in Hollywood, A Night in the Ukraine


The first act, A Day in Hollywood, is a revue of classic Hollywood songs of the 1930s performed by singers and dancers representing ushers from ...

The Sunshine Boys
The Sunshine Boys
4/10 - 5/10/2015


Al Lewis and Willie Clark, the former vaudevillian team known as "Lewis and Clark," not only grew to hate each other but never spoke to ...

The Trip to Bountiful
The Trip to Bountiful
2/27 - 3/22/2015


Carrie Watts is forced by circumstances to live with her daughter-in-law who hates her and a loathsome son who does not dare take her side. ...

Crimes of the Heart
Crimes of the Heart
1/16 - 2/8/2015


At the core of this tragic comedy are the three MaGrath sisters, Meg, Babe, and Lenny, who reunite at Old Granddaddy's home in Hazlehurst, Mississippi ...

Christmas Belles
Christmas Belles
11/21 - 12/21/2014


At Christmas in the small town of Fayro, Texas, the Futrelle Sisters are not in a festive mood. Frankie is weeks overdue with her second ...

Bell, Book, and Candle
Bell, Book, and Candle
10/10 - 11/2/2014


Gillian is one of the few modern people who can actually cast spells and perform feats of supernaturalism. She casts a spell over an unattached ...

I Hate Hamlet
I Hate Hamlet
8/22 - 9/21/2014


A young and successful TV actor relocates to New York, where he rents a marvelous, gothic apartment. His television career is in limbo. Now the ...

The Fox on the Fairway
4/25 - 5/18/2014


A tribute from Ken Ludwig (Lend Me A Tenor, Moon Over Buffalo) to the great English farces of yesteryear (including Charley's Aunt), The Fox On ...

A Thousand Clowns
3/7 - 3/30/2014


This benchmark of Broadway comedy produced one of the theatre's most beloved roles: unconventional Murray, uncle to precocious nephew, Nick. Tired of writing cheap comedy ...

Charley's Aunt
1/24 - 2/16/2014


This play, first produced in 1892, is perhas the classical farce. Jack Chesney loves Kitty Verdun and Charley loves Miss Amy Spettigue. They invite the ...

Christmas on the Yukon
11/22 - 12/22/2013


A wonderful Christmas story newly authored for ACT by Anchorage playwright, P. Shane Mitchell....

And Then There Were None
9/20 - 10/20/2013


Ten guilty strangers are trapped on an island. One by one they are accused of murder; one by one they start to die. In this ...

Nunsense
4/26 - 5/19/2013


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 ...

Sherlock Holmes, The Final Adventure


Winner of the 2007 Edgar Award for Best Mystery Play. "Dietz's genius here is in creating both story and dialogue that could pass for Doyle's ...

Proof
Proof
3/9 - 4/1/2012


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 ...

Steel Magnolias
Steel Magnolias
1/27 - 2/19/2012


The action is set in Truvy's beauty salon in Chinquapin, Louisiana, where all the ladies who are "anybody" come to have their hair done. Helped ...

Inspecting Carol
Inspecting Carol
11/25 - 12/23/2011


A Christmas Carol meets The Government Inspector meets Noises Off in this hilarious hit from Seattle. A man who asks to audition at a small ...

Arsenic and Old Lace
Arsenic and Old Lace
9/30 - 10/23/2011


The play is a farcical black comedy revolving around Mortimer Brewster, a drama critic who must deal with his crazy, homicidal family and local police ...

Videos


Little Women: The Broadway Musical
49th State Brewing Company (10/1 - 12/31)
Full Contact
Perseverance Theatre (12/1 - 12/22)
Annie
Glenn Massay Theater (3/21 - 4/4)
Mean Girls (Non-Equity) in Anchorage Mean Girls (Non-Equity)
Alaska Center for the Performing Arts (11/4 - 11/15)
After Hours
Momentum Studios (10/4 - 4/4)
Beetlejuice in Anchorage Beetlejuice
Atwood Concert Hall (1/29 - 2/9)
Tina: The Tina Turner Musical (Non-Equity) in Anchorage Tina: The Tina Turner Musical (Non-Equity)
Atwood Concert Hall (4/2 - 4/13)
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