Mark Jackson Named Director of Studio A.C.T.
Mark Jackson will lead American Conservatory Theater’s acting training program.
All Stories About American Conservatory Theater
Carey Perloff: Left Coast, Right Time
After a quarter century at the helm of ACT, the classics-minded director/playwright is quitting while she’s ahead.
Featured Contributors, Oct. 2017
A Bay Area writer sits down with an outgoing theatre giant, and a historian looks at theatre’s starring role in U.S. arts advocacy.
ACT Completes 2017-18 Season With 4 Shows
The San Francisco theatre has added a world premiere musical, ‘Small Mouth Sounds,’ and a ‘Hamlet’ starring John Douglas Thompson to its lineup.
28 Theatrical Summer Camps for Every Age
Is your child the family scene-stealer? Theatres across the country have classes and activities for students to take part in during the summer months.
ACT Announces 3 Projects for New Strands Residency
Lauren Yee, Don Nguyen, and Dustin Chinn will develop their plays at American Conservatory Theater.
San Francisco’s ACT Teases First 3 Shows of Next Season
The first three plays at the Bay Area theatre will be Pinter’s ‘Birthday Party,’ Nguyen’s ‘Vietgone,’ and Parks’s ‘Father Comes Home From the Wars.’
Khaled Hosseini Wants Theatre to Connect People
The author discusses having his novels adapted for the stage.
A Noise Within’s Fabulous ‘Invalid’
How the Pasadena company’s staging of Molière’s choppy late play found its shape, from its wigs on down to its bodily fluids.
ACT Launches New Strands Residency Program
The residency will allow three playwrights to develop and present work at ACT’s Strand Theater.
