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Review: “Rock ‘n’ Roll”
Opened Sept. 17, 2008 Rene Augesen is Esme and Manoel Felciano is Jan in a scene set at Prague’s John Lennon wall in the American Conservatory Theater production of Rock ‘n’ Roll by Tom Stoppard....
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Theater by the Bay: Best of 2008
Theatergoing in the San Francisco Bay Area is one of life’s treats. No question about it. If you love theater, this is a wonderland. In this devastating economic climate, may that only hold true for...
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Theater review: `Boleros for the Disenchanted’
Opened May 13, 2009 at the American Conservatory Theater Rachel Ticotin (left) is Doña Milla, Lela Loren (center) is Flora and Robert Beltran is Don Fermin in the American Conservatory Theater...
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Making theater dance – an ode to collaboration
One of the most exciting things about the world premiere of American Conservatory Theater’s The Tosca Project is that it shines a big old spotlight on the riches of the Bay Area. Here is a revered...
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Nostalgic for The Homecoming at a different home
The cast of ACT’s The Homecoming includes (from left) Kenneth Welsh, Anthony Fusco, Jack Willis (seated), Adam O’Byrne, René Augesen and Andrew Polk. Below: The cast in the shadows of Daniel Ostling’s...
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Enter Stage Left: SF theater history on film
Robin Williams is interviewed in a scene from the documentary Stage Left: A Story of Theater in San Francisco. Docuemntary film director/producer Austin Forbord (below right) has created a fascinating...
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ACT’s Perloff aims Higher
EXTENDED THROUGH FEB. 25 Andrew Polk (left) is Michael Friedman, Concetta Tomei (center) is Valerie Rifkind and Ben Kahre is Isaac Friedman in the world premiere of Carey Perloff’s Higher, an American...
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Feeling burned by ACT’s Scorched
In fulfillment of her estranged mother’s final wishes, Canadian notary Alphonse Lebel (David Strathairn) gives Janine (ACT core acting company member Annie Purcell) a jacket with the mysterious number...
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The power you’re supplyin’, it’s Elektra-fyin’!
René Augesen (left) is Elketra, Olympia Dukakis (center) is the Chorus and Allegra Rose Edwards is Chrysothemis in the American Conservatory Theater production of Elektra, translated and adapted from...
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Stunning Arcadia returns to ACT
Julia Coffey (left) is Lady Croom, Nick Gabriel (center) is Captain Brice and Nicholas Pelczar is Ezra Chater in ACT’s production of Arcadia by Tom Stoppard, directed by Carey Perloff. Below: Ken Ruta...
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ACT’s Lintel celebrates life, librarians
EXTENDED THROUGH NOV. 23! David Strathairn is a globe-trotting, mystery-solving librarian in Glen Berger’s Underneath the Lintel, a solo show at American Conservatory Theater’s Geary Theater. Photos by...
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ACT’s epic Orphan dusts off ancient tale
BD Wong is Cheng Ying, a heroic country doctor in American Conservatory Theater’s The Orphan of Zhao, an ancient Chinese tale that receives a new adaptation by James Fenton. Below: Wei Jiang (Orville...
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Speaking words of wisdom, Mother Mary testifies at ACT
Seana McKenna stars as Mary, the mother of Jesus, in Colm Tóibín’s solo play, Testament at American Conservatory Theater’s Geary Theater. Photos by Kevin Berne Has any mother ever inspired so much and...
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ACT’s Strand Theater: the new jewel of mid-Market
A rendering of the orchestra in American Conservatory Theater’s Strand Theater, which is now officially open. (by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP, 2014) All photos courtesy of American Conservatory...
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Uneven tone tilts ACT’s Monstress double bill
Vicente Pacram (Ogie Zulueta, left) serves a Filipino dish to Althea Benton (Kelsey Venter) in the room he shares at the I-Hotel with Fortunado “Nado” Giron (Jomar Tagatac, center) in Remember the...
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ACT attempts to solve Stoppard’s Hard Problem
Psychology student Hilary (Brenda Meaney, second from right) celebrates being published with colleagues from the prestigious Krohl Institute for Brain Science in the West Coast premiere of Tom...
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Humanity shines in ACT’s Splendid Suns
Mariam (Kate Rigg, left) and Laila (Nadine Malouf, center) and Zalmai (Neel Noronha) say goodbye to Aziza (Nikita Tewani) in the world-premiere theatrical adaptation of Khaled Hosseini’s novel, A...
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Party on, Pinter! ACT throws a Birthday bash
Stanley (Firdous Bamji) plays his new drum as Meg (Judith Ivey) listens with glee in Harold Pinter’s The Birthday Party, an American Conservatory Theater production at the Geary Theater. Photo by...
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