american conservatory theater

Sometimes watching a play about torture in a war-torn country can be torturous in and of itself. And while we would not say that about A.C.T.'s latest offering,

Nothing ever changes in Hollywood. They think they want intelligent people to write screenplays and make creative decisions, but meanwhile they fly by the seat of their pants and often the dumbest movies

Praise be, A.C.T. has managed to pull another hit out of their collective hat by way of Canadian theater company Electric Company Theatre, whose new and totally original re-imagining of

We consider ourselves intelligent people. We went to a good college, majored in English, read a lot of plays in our day. We even did some theater, and know our prosceniums from our

The latest production at A.C.T. is less a theater piece than it is a dance piece, and it's not quite the experimental, genre-blurring work that it aspires to

A.C.T.'s latest production, which falls generally into the annual slot they seem to reserve for an English drawing room comedy or similar, is Alan Ayckbourn's 1973 play

Oh, we are starved for celebrity around here, aren't we... so much so that the A.C.T. will probably see a great turnout for their latest play Vigil, despite word

What do you think of when you think of Bertolt Brecht? Dreary, austere, Marxist, unemotional theater built around fable-like premises. Maybe you've heard some of the Threepenny Opera with the

Classical theater is tough on many levels. It's tough on actors, who have to allude and emote using words that are often much more heady and complicated than they're

What do you get when a liberal, obviously embittered playwright sets out amidst the second term of the second Bush Administration to write a political satire about a conservative, buffoon-ish, sitting president