ACT Theatre

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

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

Facility

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

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

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

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

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Source (except as noted):^[17]

Notes

1. 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. 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. "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. 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. 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. Production history Archived 2009-04-26 at the Wayback Machine, ACT Theatre. Accessed online 2009-11-06.
18. 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

• 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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