Non-profit theatre organization in Seattle
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]
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]
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.
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 [ edit ]
2025 Season[ 23]
Playwright
Notes
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
[ 31]
Source (except as noted):[ 17]
^ a b Gregory A. Falls (1922–1997) , Columns (University of Washington alumni magazine), June 1997. Accessed online 2009-11-06.
^ Mark Waldstein, "Evolution of Revolution", City Arts Seattle , November 2009, p. 48–51.
^ Eagles Apartments at Kreielsheimer Place Archived 2011-09-24 at the Wayback Machine , housingpolicy.org. Accessed online 2009-11-06.
^ 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.
^ ACT/Allen Theatre Archived 2016-11-08 at the Wayback Machine , ACT Theatre. Accessed online 2009-11-06.
^ Bullitt Cabaret Archived 2016-11-08 at the Wayback Machine , ACT Theatre. Accessed online 2009-11-06.
^ 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
^ Cambridge guide to American theatre says 449 seats.
^ a b c d e Misha Berson, The drama behind the scenes at ACT , Seattle Times , March 11, 2003. Accessed online 2009-11-06.
^ Misha Berson, Robert Egan, ACT's new artistic director, knows Seattle well , Seattle Times , October 22, 2002. Accessed online 2009-11-06.
^ a b Misha Berson, ACT schedules five-play 2004 lineup , Seattle Times , November 9, 2003. Accessed online 2009-11-06.
^ 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.
^ Misha Berson, Provocative "Pillowman" heads up daring new ACT season , Seattle Times , March 19, 2006. Accessed online 2009-11-06.
^ "ACT Theatre's Beattie to retire; successor named" . 28 October 2014.
^ David-Edward Hughes, Seattle , Talkin' Broadway Regional Theater. Accessed online 2009-11-06.
^ 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.
^ a b Production history Archived 2009-04-26 at the Wayback Machine , ACT Theatre. Accessed online 2009-11-06.
^ 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.
^ Member Theatres , League of Resident Theatres. Accessed online 2018-01-14.
^ TPS Member Companies , Theatre Puget Sound; accessible via dropdown, site is not designed for "deep linking". Accessed online 2009-11-06.
^ Theatre Profiles: A Contemporary Theatre (ACT) Archived 2012-03-08 at the Wayback Machine , Theatre Communications Group. Accessed online 2009-11-06.
^ Membership Directory
^ "ACT Season 2025" . ACT Theatre. Retrieved 16 August 2024 .
^ "ACT Season 2024" . ACT Theatre. Retrieved 20 December 2023 .
^ "ACT Season 2023" . ACT Theatre History. Retrieved 20 December 2023 .
^ "ACT Season 2022" . ACT Theatre History. Retrieved 20 December 2023 .
^ "ACT Season 2020" . BroadwayWorld. Retrieved 20 December 2023 .
^ "ACT Season 2019" . ACT Theatre. Retrieved 5 February 2019 .
^ "ACT Season 2018" . ACT Theatre. Retrieved 5 February 2019 .
^ "A Contemporary Theatre (ACT) Announces 2017 Season" . American Theatre. 4 October 2016. Retrieved 5 February 2019 .
^ Production history , ACT Theatre History. Accessed online 2016-11-04.
Pdt: Marc Feldhun (auteur, acteur, chanteur, musicien, photographe, plasticien)
47°36′40″N 122°19′57″W / 47.6110°N 122.3324°W / 47.6110; -122.3324