American Conservatory Theater Looks Back on Its Time in Chicago
Jeffrey Sweet on ACT’s momentous days in Chicago.
All Stories About American Conservatory Theater
Theatre Plays a Role in San Francisco’s Mid-Market Revival
Twitter isn’t the only new tenant in the quickly changing Tenderloin and Market neighborhoods. A brace of theatres, large and small, are claiming their place in the new San Francisco.
Go West, Young Director: Carey Perloff’s First Year at A.C.T., Part 1
When San Francisco’s venerable but ailing flagship theatre hired a 32-year-old neophyte to lead it, they didn’t know what they were in for. Neither did she.
‘Woyzeck’ Meets Wilson Meets Waits
Shotgun Players mounts Robert Wilson and Tom Waits’s fragmented rethink of Büchner’s thorny classic.
20 Questions With Olympia Dukakis
On ‘Elektra,’ Greek tragedy, and her preferred role in the theatre (not running one).
Armistead Maupin & Jeff Whitty: Telling ‘Tales’
Their much-anticipated ‘Tales of the City’ musical will debut—where else?—in San Francisco.
Opening the Golden Gate
For generations of Asian-American artists in the Bay Area, life in the theatre has meant a passionate struggle for opportunity and change.
Theatre Facts 2007: The Readiness Is All
Anticipating hard times, the field is buttressed by strong numbers.
Open Call: A Year in the Lives of 15 Actors, Part 3
Rounding out their first year since graduation, members of ART’s class of 1995 find reading and spirituality at the center of their new lives as actors.
A Nice Place to Live
These actors are building their lives and careers far from the glow of Broadway.
