ACT Theatre

Non-profit theatre organization in Seattle

For A.C.T. (San Francisco), see American Conservatory Theater.

ACT Contemporary Theatre's home, Kreielsheimer Place, the historic Eagles Auditorium Building. At right is the Washington State Convention and Trade Center.

ACT Contemporary Theatre (originally A Contemporary Theatre) is a regional, non-profit theatre organization in Seattle, in the US state of Washington. Gregory A. Falls (1922–1997) founded ACT in 1965 and served as its first Artistic director; at the time ACT was founded he was also head of the Drama Department at the University of Washington.[1] Falls was identified with the theatrical avant garde of the time,[2] and founded ACT because he saw the Seattle Repertory Theatre as too specifically devoted to classics.[1]

## Facility

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ACT is located in Kreielsheimer Place, at 700 Union Street in Downtown Seattle. The building, which also includes the 44 unit, moderate-income Eagles Apartments, is the historic Eagles Auditorium Building. Previously part of the Washington State Convention and Trade Center (to which it is connected via internal tunnel), the building was remodeled into theater spaces and apartments and renamed in honor of a major gift from the Kreielsheimer Foundation.[3][4] There are two mainstage theater spaces, each with a capacity of about 390 seats. The Gregory A. Falls Theatre, located below street level, has a rectangular thrust stage. Above ground, the former Eagles Auditorium hall (now known as the Allen Theatre[5]) is an arena or "in-the-round" venue.[4]

Complying with landmark ordinances, the Allen Theatre retains the Eagles Auditorium's gilded balcony, ornate ceiling, and crystal chandeliers, though some of this is obscured by the HVAC and lighting systems. The decision to convert this famous lecture hall and performance venue from a proscenium stage to theater-in-the-round was, according to Misha Berson, "the most controversial aspect of the renovation".[4] The proscenium stage from which Martin Luther King Jr. once spoke, and on which the Grateful Dead performed, "is now just a painted relic in the background."[4]

The facility also includes the 4,539-square-foot (421.7 m2) Bullitt Cabaret and several other smaller spaces.[6]

## History

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Queen Anne Hall (2007), now home to On the Boards.

ACT was founded by Gregory A. Falls in 1965, providing Seattle with "a serious alternative to summer stock theater."[7] They staged their first performance July 9, 1965.[citation needed] ACT was originally in a 454-seat thrust-stage theater[4][8] in Queen Anne Hall, now home to On the Boards.[citation needed] Falls remained as artistic director until 1988, when he was succeeded by Jeff Steitzer, then in 1995 by Peggy Shannon.[7]

After a lengthy and difficult search for a larger space, ACT moved into its new Kreielsheimer Place facility in 1996, and presented its first play there on September 1 of that year.[4] However, Shannon's productions at the new facility were not well received by the critics or the public. Shannon resigned in 1997, leaving ACT in debt for the first time in its history, and with subscriptions having fallen from 11,400 in 1996 to 9,000 in 1997.[9] Her successor, Gordon Edelstein, revived the company's critical and popular reputation, bringing such noted performers as actresses Julie Harris and Jane Alexander and singer songwriter Randy Newman, as well as experimental director Joanne Akalaitis and composer Philip Glass. Several ACT premieres went on to successful runs in New York.[9] However, costs rose accordingly, and ACT's debts mounted.[9] In October 2002, ACT made an offer to Robert Egan, producing director at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles,[10] to become their new artistic director, but by the time the 2003 season was approaching, ACT had a US$1.7 million debt and was in no position to honor their offer.[9] They were in serious danger of folding.[9] Subscriptions dropped to 7,500.[11]

Donations (including $500,000 Boeing chairman Phil Condit), some scaling back, and a successful 2003 season under artistic director Kurt Beattie saved the day,[11] sparing ACT the fate visited upon Seattle's comparably prominent Empty Space Theatre in the same period.[12] By the 2006 season, ACT was back to venturesome programming, including Martin McDonagh's black comedy The Pillowman and local writer Elizabeth Heffron's Mitzi's Abortion.[13]

John Langs became the artistic director, replacing Kurt Beattie, December 2015.[14] In 2018, Yussef El Guindi became a Core Company playwright member.

## Stature

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Over more than four decades, ACT has established itself as one of Seattle's leading theaters.[15] Along with the Cornish Playhouse and Seattle Repertory Theatre ("The Rep"), it is one of the city's three largest playhouses.[16] ACT's Mainstage has presented many world, American, and West Coast premieres.[17] Numerous productions have gone on to New York City.[18]

ACT is a member of the League of Resident Theatres (LORT).[19] It is also a member of Theatre Puget Sound[20] and is a constituent of Theatre Communications Group.[21] ACT is also a member of the Downtown Seattle Association, Seattle's Convention and Visitors Bureau[citation needed] and Greater Seattle Chamber of Commerce.[22]

## Mainstage production history

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2025 Season[23] | Playwright  | Notes

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POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive | Selina Fillinger |
Mrs. Loman is Leaving | Katie Forgette  |
The Last Five Years | Jason Robert Brown | Co-Production with The 5th Avenue Theatre
Golden | Andrew Lee Creech  |
An Enemy of the People | Henrik Ibsen |
2024 Season[24] | Playwright  | Notes
Cambodian Rock Band | Lauren Yee, Dengue Fever | Co-production with 5th Avenue Theatre, Alley Theatre, Arena Stage, and Berkeley Repertory Theatre
A Case for the Existence of God | Samuel D. Hunter |
STEW | Zora Howard |
The Lehman Trilogy | Stefano Massini | Adaptation by Ben Power
2023 Season[25] | Playwright  | Notes
Choir Boy | Tarrell Alvin McCraney | Co-production with Denver Center for the Performing Arts and 5th Avenue Theatre
History of Theatre: About, By, For, and Near | Reginald André Jackson  | World Premiere
Every Brilliant Thing | Duncan Macmillian, Jonny Donahoe |
Wolf Play | Hansol Jung |
2022 Season[26] | Playwright  | Notes
Hotter Than Egypt | Yussef El Guindi | World Premiere
The Thin Place | Lucas Hnath |
Sweat | Lynn Nottage |
2020 Season[27] | Playwright  | Notes
Sweat | Lynn Nottage | Production cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
The Effect | Lucy Prebble | Production cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
Choir Boy | Tarrell Alvin McCraney | Co-production with Denver Center for the Performing Arts. Production cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
The Laugh Track | Wendy MacLeod | World Premiere. Production cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
Witch | Jen Silverman | Production cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
2019 Season[28] | Playwright  | Notes
Romeo + Juliet | William Shakespeare |
Urinetown | Mark Hollmann, Greg Kotis | Co-production with 5th Avenue Theatre
Pass Over | Antoinette Nwandu |
The Year of Magical Thinking | Joan Didion |
People of the Book | Yussef El Guindi | World Premiere
Dracula | Steven Dietz adapted from Bram Stoker | New Adaptation
2018 Season[29] | Playwright  | Notes
Ride the Cyclone | Brooke Maxwell, Jacob Richmond  | Co-production with 5th Avenue Theatre
The Wolves | Sarah DeLappe |
Until the Flood | Dael Orlandersmith |
Lauren Weedman Doesn't Live Here Anymore | Lauren Weedman | World Premiere
Skylight | David Hare |
Oslo | J. T. Rogers |
2017 Season[30] | Playwright  | Notes
Tribes (play) | Nina Raine |
Murder for Two | Kellen Blair, Joe Kinosian  | Co-production with 5th Avenue Theatre
The Legend of Georgia McBride | Matthew Lopez  |
Alex & Aris | Moby Pomerance  |
King of the Yees | Lauren Yee |
The Crucible | Arthur Miller |
2016 Season  | Playwright  | Notes
Assassins | Stephen Sondheim, John Weidman |
Stupid Fucking Bird | Aaron Posner |
The Mystery of Love and Sex | Bathsheba Doran |
Daisy | Sean Devine |
The Royale | Marco Ramirez  |
Dangerous Liaisons | Christopher Hampton |
2015 Season  | Playwright  | Notes
Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris | Eric Blau, Jacques Brel, Mort Shuman |
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | Tennessee Williams |
Threesome | Yussef El Guindi |
Hold These Truths | Jeanna Sakata  |
Bloomsday | Steven Dietz |
Mr. Burns, a post-electric play | Anne Washburn, Michael Friedman (score)  |
2014 Season  | Playwright  | Notes
Little Shop of Horrors | Howard Ashman, Roger Corman, Charles B. Griffith, Alan Menken |
Bethany | Laura Marks  |
The Price | Arthur Miller |
An Evening of One Acts | Woody Allen, Steve Martin, Sam Shepard |
The Invisible Hand | Ayad Akhtar |
Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike | Christopher Durang |
2013 Season  | Playwright  | Notes
Assisted Living | Katie Forgette  |
Grey Gardens | Scott Frankel, Michael Korie, Doug Wright |
Other Desert Cities | Jon Robin Baitz |
Rapture, Blister, Burn | Gina Gionfriddo |
Middletown | Will Eno |
Sugar Daddies | Alan Ayckbourn |
Season 2012  | Playwright  | Notes
First Date | Michael Weiner, Austin Winsberg, Alan Zachary  |
The Pitmen Painters | Lee Hall |
One Slight Hitch | Lewis Black |
The Pinter Festival | Harold Pinter |
Uncle Ho to Uncle Sam | Robert Egan, Trieu Tran  |
Ramayana | Yussef El Guindi, Stephanie Timm  |
2011 Season  | Playwright  | Notes
Vanities: A New Musical | Jack Heifner  |
The Prisoner of Second Avenue | Neil Simon |
Pilgrims in the New World | Yussef El Guindi |
In the Next Room (or the Vibrator Play) | Sarah Ruhl |
Mary Stewart | Peter Oswald |
Double Indemnity | David Pichette, R. Hamilton Wright, James M. Cain |
2010 Season  | Playwright  | Notes
The Trip to Bountiful | Horton Foote |
The Female of the Species | Joanna Murray-Smith |
Yankee Tavern | Steven Dietz |
The Lady With All the Answers | David Rambo |
The Lieutenant of Inishmore | Martin McDonagh |
2009 Season  | Playwright  | Notes
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | Robert Louis Stevenson

(Adapted by) Jeffrey Hatcher

Below the Belt | Richard Dresser  |
the break/s | Marc Bamuthi Joseph |
Das Barbecü | Jim Luigs and Scott Warrender  |
Runt of the Litter | Bo Eason |
Rock n' Roll | Tom Stoppard |
2008 Season  | Playwright  | Notes
The Ilkhom Theatre Festival  | Ilkhom Theatre Company  | A Seattle First
Fathers and Sons | Michael Bradford  | World Premiere
A Marvelous Party: The Noël Coward Celebration | David Ira Goldstein  |
Intimate Exchanges | Alan Ayckbourn |
Eurydice | Sarah Ruhl |
Becky's New Car | Steven Dietz | World Premiere
2007 Season  | Playwright  | Notes
The Clean House | Sarah Ruhl |
Souvenir | Stephen Temperley  |
Stuff Happens | David Hare |
First Class | David Wagoner | World Premiere
The Mojo and the Sayso | Aishah Rahman  |
The Women | Clare Boothe Luce |
2006 Season  | Playwright  | Notes
The Pillowman | Martin McDonagh | West Coast Premier
Miss Witherspoon | Christopher Durang | West Coast Premier
Wine in the Wilderness | Alice Childress |
Mitzi's Abortion | Elizabeth Heffron  | World Premiere
A Number | Caryl Churchill |
The Underpants | Steve Martin |
2005 Season  | Playwright  | Notes
Bach at Leipzig | Itamar Moses | West Coast Premiere
The Ugly American | Mike Daisey | World Premiere
Born Yesterday | Garson Kanin |
The Night of the Iguana | Tennessee Williams |
Vincent in Brixton | Nicholas Wright |
Flight | Charlayne Woodard |
2004 Season  | Playwright  | Notes
Alki | Eric Overmyer | World Premiere
Enchanted April | Matthew Barber  |
Jumpers | Tom Stoppard |
Good Boys | Jane Martin | West Coast Premiere
Fiction | Steven Dietz | West Coast Premiere
2003 Season  | Playwright  | Notes
Absurd Person Singular | Alan Ayckbourn |
The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? | Edward Albee | West Coast Premiere
A Moon for the Misbegotten | Eugene O'Neill |
Omnium Gatherum | Theresa Rebeck and Alexandra Gersten-Vassilaros | West Coast Premiere
The Syringa Tree | Pamela Gien  | Production went on to New York[18]
2002 Season  | Playwright  | Notes
Mourning Becomes Electra | Eugene O'Neill |
Dirty Blonde | Claudia Shear |
Yellowman | Deal Orlandersmith  |
Wintertime | Charles L. Mee |
Fuddy Meers | David Lindsay-Abaire |
The Education of Randy Newman | Randy Newman, Michael Roth, Jerry Patch  | World Premiere
2001 Season  | Playwright  | Notes
Big Love | Charles L. Mee | West Coast Premiere
Dinner with Friends | Donald Margulies |
Polish Joke | David Ives | World Premiere
Waiting to Be Invited | S.M. Shephard-Massat  |
A Little Night Music | Stephen Sondheim |
Grand Magic | Eduardo De Filippo |
2000 Season  | Playwright  | Notes
God of Vengeance | Donald Margulies, Sholem Asch | World Premiere
Talley's Folly | Lanford Wilson |
2.5 Minute Ride | Lisa Kron |
A Skull in Connemara | Martin McDonagh | Production went on to New York[18]
In the Penal Colony | Philip Glass | World Premiere; production went on to New York[18]
The Odd Couple | Neil Simon |
1999 Season  | Playwright  | Notes
The Crucible | Arthur Miller |
Goblin Market | Polly Pen & Peggy Harmon  |
Stonewall Jackson's House | Jonathan Reynolds |
Temporary Help | David Wiltse | World Premiere; production went on to New York[18]
Side Man | Warren Leight | West Coast Premiere
Communicating Doors | Alan Ayckbourn |
1998 Season  | Playwright  | Notes
Thunder Knocking on the Door | Keith Glover  |
Death of a Salesman | Arthur Miller |
Collected Stories | Donald Margulies |
Scent of the Roses | Lisette Lecat Ross  | World Premiere; production went on to New York[18]
The Summer Moon | John Olive  | World Premiere
Quills | Doug Wright |
Violet | Jeanine Tesori  |
1997 Season  | Playwright  | Notes
The Notebook of Trigorin | Tennessee Williams |
The Nina Variations | Steven Dietz |
Room Service | John Murray and Allen Boretz  |
Going to St. Ives | Lee Blessing | World Premiere
Blues for an Alabama Sky | Pearl Cleage |
Old Wicked Songs | John Marans  |
The Big Slam | Bill Corbett  |
1996 Season  | Playwright  | Notes
Arcadia | Tom Stoppard |
Avenue X | Jon Jiler and Ray Leslee  |
Laughter on the 23rd Floor | Neil Simon |
Cheap | Tom Topor | World Premiere, First performance in ACT's new home at Kreielsheimer Place
The Crimson Thread | Mary Hanes  |
My One Good Nerve | Ruby Dee | World Premiere
1995 Season  | Playwright  | Notes
The Gospel at Colonus | Lee Breuer and Bob Telson |
Hospitality | Allan Havis  |
Handing Down the Names | Steven Dietz | World Premiere
Later Life | A.R. Gurney  |
The Odd Couple | Neil Simon |
Tea | Velina Hasu Houston |
The Language of Flowers | Edit Villarreal  | World Premiere
1994 Season  | Playwright  | Notes
Betty the Yeti | Jon Klein  |
Gray's Anatomy | Jim Leonard Jr.  | World Premiere
Keely and Du | Jane Martin |
Man of the Moment | Alan Ayckbourn |
Fish Head Soup | Philip Kan Gotanda |
Voices in the Dark | John Pielmeier | World Premiere
1993 Season  | Playwright  | Notes
The Red and the Black | Jon Klein  | World Premiere
The Cover of Life | R.T. Robinson  |
Lonely Planet | Steven Dietz |
Life During Wartime | Keith Reddin |
Agnes Smedley: Our American Friend | Doris Baizley  | World Premiere
Dreams From a Summer House | Alan Ayckbourn and John Pattison  |
1992 Season  | Playwright  | Notes
Trust | Steven Dietz |
Shadowlands | William Nicholson |
The Revengers' Comedies (Parts I and II)  | Alan Ayckbourn |
Eleemosynary | Lee Blessing |
Sunsets and Glories | Peter Barnes |
1991 Season  | Playwright  | Notes
My Children! My Africa! | Athol Fugard |
The Illusion | Tony Kushner |
Tears of Rage | Doris Baizley  | World Premiere
Our Country's Good | Timberlake Wertenbaker |
Willi: An Evening of Wilderness and Spirit | John Pielmeier | World Premiere
Halcyon Days | Steven Dietz | World Premiere
1990 Season  | Playwright  | Notes
An American Comedy | Richard Nelson |
Lloyd's Prayer | Kevin Kling |
A Normal Life | Erik Brogger  | World Premiere
Born in the RSA | Barney Simon and The Market Theatre Company  |
Four Our Fathers | Jon Klein  |
Hapgood | Tom Stoppard |
1989 Season  | Playwright  | Notes
The Downside | Richard Dresser |
Breaking the Silence | Stephen Poliakoff |
A Walk in the Woods | Lee Blessing |
Red Noses | Peter Barnes |
Happenstance | Steven Dietz and Eric Bain Peltoniemi  | World Premiere
Woman in Mind | Alan Ayckbourn |
1988 Season  | Playwright  | Notes
Merrily We Roll Along | Stephen Sondheim and George Furth |
Mrs. California | Doris Baizley  |
A Chorus of Disapproval | Alan Ayckbourn |
God's Country | Steven Dietz | World Premiere
Principia Scriptoriae | Richard Nelson |
The Voice of the Prairie  | John Olive  |
1987 Season  | Playwright  | Notes
March of the Falsettos | William Finn |
A Lie of the Mind | Sam Shepard |
The Diary of a Scoundrel | Erik Brogger  |
The Marriage of Bette and Boo | Christopher Durang |
Glengarry Glen Ross | David Mamet |
Biloxi Blues | Neil Simon |
1986 Season  | Playwright  | Notes
On the Razzle | Tom Stoppard |
Painting Churches | Tina Howe |
Tales from Hollywood | Christopher Hampton |
Brighton Beach Memoirs | Neil Simon |
The Jail Diary of Albie Sachs | David Edgar |
Little Shop of Horrors | Howard Ashman and Alan Menken |
1985 Season  | Playwright  | Notes
King Lear | William Shakespeare |
True West | Sam Shepard |
Maydays | David Edgar |
Other Places | Harold Pinter |
End of the World | Arthur Kopit |
Quartermaine's Terms | Simon Gray |
1984 Season  | Playwright  | Notes
Amadeus | Peter Shaffer |
Top Girls | Caryl Churchill |
Angels Fall | Lanford Wilson |
Thirteen | Lynda Myles | World Premiere
Fool for Love | Sam Shepard |
The Communication Cord | Brian Friel |
1983 Season  | Playwright  | Notes
The Dresser | Ronald Harwood |
The Dining Room | A.R. Gurney |
Crimes of the Heart | Beth Henley |
Educating Rita | Willy Russell |
A Soldier's Play | Charles Fuller |
Cloud 9 | Caryl Churchill |
1982 Season  | Playwright  | Notes
Da | Hugh Leonard |
Fridays | Andrew Johns |
Waiting for the Parade | John Murrell |
The Gin Game | Donald L. Coburn |
The Greeks: The War (Part 1) | John Barton and Kenneth Cavander  |
The Greeks: The War (Part 2) | John Barton and Kenneth Cavander  |
1981 Season  | Playwright  | Notes
Custer | Robert E. Ingham  |
Getting Out | Marsha Norman |
Billy Bishop Goes to War | John Gray with Eric Peterson |
Night and Day | Tom Stoppard |
Loose Ends | Michael Weller |
Whose Life Is It, Anyway? | Brian Clark  |
1980 Season  | Playwright  | Notes
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf | Ntozake Shange |
Catholics | Brian Moore | World Premiere
Artichoke | Joanna Glass |
Wings | Arthur Kopit |
Buried Child | Sam Shepard |
Starting Here, Starting Now | Richard Maltby Jr. and David Shire |
1979 Season  | Playwright  | Notes
Man and Superman | George Bernard Shaw |
Fanshen | David Hare |
Otherwise Engaged | Simon Gray |
Holy Ghosts | Romulus Linney |
The Water Engine | David Mamet |
The Fantasticks | Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt |
1978 Season  | Playwright  | Notes
Henry IV, Part I | William Shakespeare |
The Shadow Box | Michael Cristofer |
Ballymurphy | Michael Neville  | World Premiere. Voted "Best of Season" by subscribers. Play went on to Manhattan Theatre Club.
The Sea Horse | Edward J. Moore  |
Makassar Reef | Alexander Buzo |
Anything Goes | Cole Porter, Guy Bolton and P.G. Wodehouse |
1977 Season  | Playwright  | Notes
As You Like It | William Shakespeare |
Travesties | Tom Stoppard |
Ladyhouse Blues | Kevin O'Morrison |
Streamers | David Rabe |
The Club | Eve Merriam |
Absurd Person Singular | Alan Ayckbourn |
1976 Season  | Playwright  | Notes
Sizwe Bansi Is Dead | Athol Fugard, John Kani and Winston Ntshona |
The Time of Your Life | William Saroyan |
Scapino | Frank Dunlop and Jim Dale |
Desire Under the Elms | Eugene O'Neill |
Relatively Speaking | Alan Ayckbourn |
Boccaccio | Kenneth Cavander  |
1975 Season  | Playwright  | Notes
Sleuth | Anthony Schaffer |
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui | Bertolt Brecht |
When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder? | Mark Medoff |
Quiet Caravans | Barry Dinerman  | World Premiere
Of Mice and Men | John Steinbeck |
Oh Coward! | Roderick Cook |
1974 Season  | Playwright  | Notes
The Hot L Baltimore | Lanford Wilson |
Twigs | George Furth |
A Streetcar Named Desire | Tennessee Williams |
Count Dracula | Ted Tiller  |
In Celebration | David Storey |
The Chairs/The Bald Soprano | Eugène Ionesco |
Godspell | Stephen Schwartz and John-Michael Tebelak |
1973 Season  | Playwright  | Notes
No Place to Be Somebody | Charles Cordone  |
Old Times | Harold Pinter |
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | Dale Wasserman |
The Contractor | David Storey |
A Conflict of Interest | Jay Broad  |
A Day in the Death of Joe Egg | Peter Nichols
The Decline and Fall of the Entire World as Seen Through the Eyes of Cole Porter | Ben Bagley |
1972 Season  | Playwright  | Notes
The Me Nobody Knows | Gary William Friedman and Will Holt |
What the Butler Saw | Joe Orton |
The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds | Paul Zindel |
Echoes | N. Richard Nash | World Premiere
The Trial of the Catonsville Nine | Fr. Daniel Berrigan |
Moonchildren | Michael Weller |
Butterflies Are Free | Leonard Gershe |
1971 Season  | Playwright  | Notes
Hadrian VII | Peter Luke |
The Boys in the Band | Mart Crowley |
The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail | Jerome Lawrence and Robert Lee |
Ceremonies in Dark Old Men | Lonne Elder III |
Plaza Suite | Neil Simon |
A Cry of Players | William Gibson |
You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown | Clark Gesner and John Gordon  |
1970 Season  | Playwright  | Notes
The Birthday Party | Harold Pinter | On same bill as The Balcony
The Balcony | Jean Genet | On same bill as The Birthday Party
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead | Tom Stoppard |
The Caucasian Chalk Circle | Bertolt Brecht |
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie | Jay Presson Allen |
Endgame | Samuel Beckett |
Your Own Thing | Hal Hester and Danny Apolinar  |
1969 Season  | Playwright  | Notes
Celebration | Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt |
The Homecoming | Harold Pinter |
Rhinoceros | Eugène Ionesco |
Inadmissible Evidence | John Osborne |
Marat/Sade | Peter Weiss |
Philadelphia, Here I Come | Brian Friel |
Crabdance | Beverly Simons  | World Premiere
1968 Season  | Playwright  | Notes
Slow Dance on the Killing Ground | William Hanley  |
Eh? | Henry Livings |
Royal Hunt of the Sun | Peter Shaffer |
The Lion in Winter | James Goldman |
Black Comedy | Peter Shaffer | On same bill as Captain Fantastick Meets the Ectomorph
Captain Fantastick Meets the Ectomorph | Barry Pritchard  | On same bill as Black Comedy
A Delicate Balance | Edward Albee |
Waiting for Godot | Samuel Beckett |
1967 Season  | Playwright  | Notes
Luv | Murray Schisgal |
The Deputy | Rolf Hochhuth |
Out at Sea/Striptease | Sławomir Mrożek |
After the Fall | Arthur Miller |
The Great Divide | William Vaughn Moody |
The Fantasticks | Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt |
The Caretaker | Harold Pinter |
1966 Season  | Playwright  | Notes
In White America | Martin B. Duberman |
The Typist/The Tiger | Murray Schisgal |
Tiny Alice | Edward Albee |
A Thurber Carnival | James Thurber |
The Physicists | Friedrich Dürrenmatt |
Arsenic and Old Lace | Joseph Kesselring |
The Collection/The Room | Harold Pinter |
1965 Season  | Playwright  | Notes
Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feeling So Sad | Arthur Kopit |
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | Tennessee Williams |
Who'll Save the Plowboy? | Frank Gilroy |
Dark of the Moon | H. Richardson and William Berney  |
The Private Ear/The Public Eye | Peter Shaffer |

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## Notes

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1. ^ a b Gregory A. Falls (1922–1997), Columns (University of Washington alumni magazine), June 1997. Accessed online 2009-11-06.
2. ^ Mark Waldstein, "Evolution of Revolution", City Arts Seattle, November 2009, p. 48–51.
3. ^ Eagles Apartments at Kreielsheimer Place Archived 2011-09-24 at the Wayback Machine, housingpolicy.org. Accessed online 2009-11-06.
4. ^ a b c d e f Misha Berson, Act Makes Its Move -- Theater Company Is Finally Sitting Pretty In The Heart Of Seattle, Seattle Times, September 1, 1996. Accessed online 2009-11-06.
5. ^ ACT/Allen Theatre Archived 2016-11-08 at the Wayback Machine, ACT Theatre. Accessed online 2009-11-06.
6. ^ Bullitt Cabaret Archived 2016-11-08 at the Wayback Machine, ACT Theatre. Accessed online 2009-11-06.
7. ^ a b "Contemporary Theatre, Inc., A.", p. 107 in Don B. Wilmeth and Tice L. Miller, eds., Cambridge guide to American theatre Edition 2, Cambridge University Press, 1996, ISBN 0-521-56444-1
8. ^ Cambridge guide to American theatre says 449 seats.
9. ^ a b c d e Misha Berson, The drama behind the scenes at ACT, Seattle Times, March 11, 2003. Accessed online 2009-11-06.
10. ^ Misha Berson, Robert Egan, ACT's new artistic director, knows Seattle well, Seattle Times, October 22, 2002. Accessed online 2009-11-06.
11. ^ a b Misha Berson, ACT schedules five-play 2004 lineup, Seattle Times, November 9, 2003. Accessed online 2009-11-06.
12. ^ Misha Berson, Empty Space was a survivor until last "rainstorm" Archived June 4, 2011, at the Wayback Machine, Seattle Times, November 1, 2006. Accessed online 2009-11-06.
13. ^ Misha Berson, Provocative "Pillowman" heads up daring new ACT season, Seattle Times, March 19, 2006. Accessed online 2009-11-06.
14. ^ "ACT Theatre's Beattie to retire; successor named". 28 October 2014.
15. ^ David-Edward Hughes, Seattle, Talkin' Broadway Regional Theater. Accessed online 2009-11-06.
16. ^ Misha Berson, Smaller theaters are thinking big, getting first dibs on new works Archived July 9, 2008, at the Wayback Machine, Seattle Times, April 27, 2008. Accessed online 2009-11-06.
17. ^ a b Production history Archived 2009-04-26 at the Wayback Machine, ACT Theatre. Accessed online 2009-11-06.
18. ^ a b c d e f ACT History: ACT plays live beyond ACT Archived 2009-10-08 at the Wayback Machine, ACT Theatre. Accessed online 2009-11-06.
19. ^ Member Theatres, League of Resident Theatres. Accessed online 2018-01-14.
20. ^ TPS Member Companies, Theatre Puget Sound; accessible via dropdown, site is not designed for "deep linking". Accessed online 2009-11-06.
21. ^ Theatre Profiles: A Contemporary Theatre (ACT) Archived 2012-03-08 at the Wayback Machine, Theatre Communications Group. Accessed online 2009-11-06.
22. ^ Membership Directory
23. ^ "ACT Season 2025". ACT Theatre. Retrieved 16 August 2024.
24. ^ "ACT Season 2024". ACT Theatre. Retrieved 20 December 2023.
25. ^ "ACT Season 2023". ACT Theatre History. Retrieved 20 December 2023.
26. ^ "ACT Season 2022". ACT Theatre History. Retrieved 20 December 2023.
27. ^ "ACT Season 2020". BroadwayWorld. Retrieved 20 December 2023.
28. ^ "ACT Season 2019". ACT Theatre. Retrieved 5 February 2019.
29. ^ "ACT Season 2018". ACT Theatre. Retrieved 5 February 2019.
30. ^ "A Contemporary Theatre (ACT) Announces 2017 Season". American Theatre. 4 October 2016. Retrieved 5 February 2019.
31. ^ Production history, ACT Theatre History. Accessed online 2016-11-04.

## External links

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* ACT Contemporary Theatre, official site
* A.C.T. Theatre (homonym) in France http://www.aparr.org/marc-feldhun https://feldhun.webnode.fr/

Pdt: Marc Feldhun (auteur, acteur, chanteur, musicien, photographe, plasticien)

* ACT Theatre History, a comprehensive cross-indexed production history, with programs

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