Arts & Entertainment A.C.T. Releases 'Tales of the City' Musical on Streaming, for Pride Week In celebration of Pride and the 10th anniversary of the world premiere of Armistead Maupin's 'Tales of the City, the Musical,' ACT is releasing it on streaming.
Arts & Entertainment ACT Announces Three Filmed Play Readings to Be Streamed This Spring As San Francisco's American Conservatory Theater prepares to try to reopen for in-person performances this summer (or fall), the company has announced a series of play readings that will continue its streaming programs that began in the fall.
Arts & Entertainment All You Need to Know About Virtual Theater in the Bay Area This Fall It will be a while before we’ll be able to come together and sit shoulder-to-shoulder to enjoy the shared experience of live theater, but in the meantime, several Bay Area theater companies are refusing to go completely dark and are producing shows that can be enjoyed at home.
Arts & Entertainment ACT Offers Video Streams Of Two Productions; Berkeley Rep to Follow American Conservatory Theater, as promised, is offering theater fans a way to see the most recent two productions of its aborted season from the comfort of their own homes, and Berkeley Rep's two shows will follow.
Arts & Entertainment ACT and Berkeley Rep Cancel Shows, With Both Planning to Offer Video-Streaming Alternative The local theater community is being roiled by measures to stem the coronavirus pandemic, and today we learn that both American Conservatory Theater and Berkeley Repertory Theatre have canceled their current and upcoming shows for the next month. But video-streaming alternatives are on the way.
Arts & Entertainment Tony Hale Delights In the Curious, Somewhat Uneven 'Wakey, Wakey' at A.C.T. With Wakey Wakey, playwright Will Eno has created an almost-one-man show that seems to be a 90-minute vigil hosted by a dying man who wants to say some profound things before he goes, and yet really isn't sure what to say.
Arts & Entertainment 'Testmatch' at ACT's Strand Theater Is a Strange But Satisfying Lens on Cricket ACT's latest production is a world premiere by an American- and British-trained playwright about the game of cricket, in particular women's cricket, and it spans three centuries and two continents in a brisk 90 minutes.
Arts & Entertainment 'Vanity Fair' At ACT Is a Study In Delightful, Scrappy Storytelling Actor and playwright Kate Hamill clearly has a love for the women of 19th Century English literature, specifically the independent-minded, put-upon women of Jane Austen and William Makepeace Thackeray's beloved novel, 'Vanity Fair.'
Arts & Entertainment ACT's 'Hamlet' Lets A Veteran Classical Actor Shine, If Perhaps A Bit Too Late The role of Hamlet is a holy-grail, bucket-list thing for many actors eager to prove they can command a stage for over three hours and convincingly deliver the many famous soliloquies of the
Arts & Entertainment 'Janis Joplin' At ACT Is An Intoxicating Summer Of Love Jukebox Musical There is currently an overflowing, lovin’ spoonful of Summer of Love commemorations in San Francisco, from street fairs to outdoor concerts to retail window displays but none of them really offers a plausible
Arts & Entertainment 'Battlefield' At ACT Offers Some Ancient Wisdom On War, Not A Lot Else I'm willing to accept that, perhaps, I am not the right audience for the work of Peter Brook the acclaimed English theater and film director who once brought the epic Indian myth The
Arts & Entertainment 'Needles & Opium' at ACT Combines Stunning Design With Some Humdrum Text It isn't often enough that ACT plays host to a work of such jaw-dropping visual innovation as Needles and Opium, and so I come around to my thoughts on the piece as a
Arts & Entertainment ACT Artistic Director Carey Perloff To Retire After Next Season The artistic directors at the Bay Area's two biggest regional theaters, American Conservatory Theater and Berkeley Repertory Theater, both have one foot out the door, meaning we're on the eve of a potentially
Arts & Entertainment Bill Irwin's 'On Beckett' Is A Sweet If Rambling Tribute To An Actor's Favorite Playwright Most actors pay lip service to the all-important role of playwrights and screenwriters, saying something cliché to the effect of "I'm nothing without his/her words." But most actors are also great egotists
Arts & Entertainment Sadly, David Byrne's Musical About Imelda Marcos Won't Be Coming to ACT After All Sad news today for theater fans: ACT announced that they've had to cancel the planned June production of Here Lies Love, the acclaimed musical by David Byrne and Fatboy Slim that tells the
Arts & Entertainment 'The Hard Problem' At ACT Is Dramatically, and Academically, Muddy The "hard problem" of this play's title refers to the very nature of consciousness, and spoiler alert, Tom Stoppard — a playwright whose beloved Arcadia and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead have masterfully illuminated
Arts & Entertainment 'King Charles III' Is A Witty Dramedy Tailor-Made For Royal Watchers And Shakespeare Nerds The year is 2020, say, and beloved English monarch Elizabeth II has just died that's perhaps jumping the gun in terms of a prediction, though, given that she's only 90 this year and
Arts & Entertainment 'The Unfortunates' At A.C.T.'s Strand Theater Is A Brash, Messy, Genre-Bending Musical For A New Age In what's arguably the first piece of gutsy, experimental theater to hit the stage at A.C.T.'s Strand Theater the ostensible mission of which is to provide space for more experimental
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: <i>Ah, Wilderness</i> at A.C.T. Heading in for what was to be two and a half hours of Eugene O'Neill last night at A.C.T.'s Geary Theater, I was bracing for some arduous and heavy early
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: <i>Between Riverside and Crazy</i> at A.C.T. The season opener at ACT's Geary Theater is an angry play, and an urban play, and it's also an entirely sophisticated, provoking, and redemptive profile of one angry, aging, urban black man. The
Arts & Entertainment Mark Rucker, Associate Artistic Director Of A.C.T., Dies at 56 There was some tragic and unexpected news today in the local theater community. Talented and acclaimed theater director Mark Rucker, who has served as Associate Artistic Director at American Conservatory Theater here in
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'Love and Information' at A.C.T. The inaugural production at A.C.T.'s brand new Strand Theater on Market Street promised to be edgy, challenging, and envelope-pushing in ways that the theater company can't always be given the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'A Little Night Music' At A.C.T. I'll admit up front that A Little Night Music may be my favorite Sondheim score. It may not have the pop-music bounce of Company or the sweeping sentimentality of Into the Woods, but
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Tour A.C.T.'s Brand New Strand Theater It's a new opening curtain at The Strand (1117 Market at 7th), the American Conservatory Theater's new second home on Market Street. Or it would be, only the gorgeous stage doesn't have a
Arts & Entertainment Peeking Inside The Historic, Almost-Open Strand Theater, A.C.T.'s New Second Home On Market Street Now after three years of fundraising and construction, SF's American Conservatory Theater is getting set to show the public its brand new performance space on mid-Market, The Strand Theater (1117 Market at 7th)
