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We’re a live theatre that produces contemporary plays and performances. Visit our site , or watch our videos .
Next on stage, June 13-July 12, A Marvelous Party: A Noel Coward Celebration Words and Music by Noël Coward. Devised by David Ira Goldstein, Carl Danielsen, Mark Anders, Patricia Wilcox and Anna Lauris, directed by David Ira Goldstein." This show is basically four ridiculously-talented singer/dancer/actors that show you all the awesome songs and witty one-liners that Noel Coward is so well-known for.
Make a night of it! Friday and Saturday nights after Marvelous Party the Central Heating Lab at ACT presents PINKABOO! The Closeted American Songbook , a companion piece to A Marvelous Party, Phoenicia & Vic, one of Seattle's most beloved cabaret-twosomes bring in PINKABOO!—The Closeted American Songbook a one-act pillaging of the Great Standards and early 20th Century showtunes.Featuring Wade Maden, Victor Janusz and special guests including Sarah Rudinoff, Peggy Platt, El Vez, The Heavenly Spies, and others!
Be sure to check out the rest of our 2008 season . We've got Intimate Exchanges by Alan Ayckbourn (a comedy with four different endings), Eurydice by Sarah Ruhl (a stunningly modern take on the original Greek love story), and Becky's New Car by Steven Dietz (a World Premiere comedy about running away from your own life!)

My Interests

Great writers, great storytelling, invigorating ideas, art and social investigation

I'd like to meet:

Jonathan Miller, director; Emma Thompson, actress; Alan Rickman, actor; William Trevor, fiction writer; Theodore Roethke, poet.

Music:

(Don’t Put Your Daughter on the Stage) Mrs. Worthing, Noel Coward; Welcome To The Theatr, from the musical APPLAUSE; Stravinsky; Prokofiev; Schoenberg; Debussy; Bartók; Charles Ives; Glenn Gould; John Cage; Thelonious Monk; Duke Ellington; Miles Davis Quintet; Sun Ra; Florence Foster Jenkins; Awesome; Magnetic Fields; Andrea Marcovicci; Of Montreal

Movies:

Topsy Turvy, Shakespeare In Love, Children Of Paradise, 8 1/2, Los Olvidados, Tinsel and Sawdust, Being John Malkovich, Yasujiro Ozu, Guillermo del Toro

Television:

American Playhouse, A Moon For The Misbegotten; Aaron Sorkin; Slings And Arrows, CBC TV; The Singing Detective; I Claudius; Twin Peaks; Six Feet Under

Books:

Music The Arts and Ideas, Leonard B Meyer; The Idea Of Culture, Terry Eagleton; Being An Actor, Simon Callow; The Empty Space, Peter Brooke; National Service, Richard Eyre; The Syringa Tree, Pamela Gien; Theodore Roethke; Thomas Pynchon; Dave Eggers; Sarah Vowell

Heroes:

Thomas Moore, Abraham Lincoln, Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Joyce, Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr.

My Blog

Fathers and Sons Video

Here's a video of the opening of Fathers and Sons, featuring Wilbur Penn as Benard Goldwater. ...
Posted by ACT Theatre on Fri, 30 May 2008 02:52:00 PST

Video of the Ilkhom Theatre

The Ilkhom Theatre of Tashkent, Uzbekistan creates dangerous, daring, modern work based in theatre, dance, music and art. ACT - A Contemporary Theatre - opens it’s 2008 season with two works by ...
Posted by ACT Theatre on Thu, 13 Mar 2008 05:23:00 PST

video - The Women audience reactions

Here is a video from opening night of The Women, now playing at ACT. ...
Posted by ACT Theatre on Wed, 24 Oct 2007 10:53:00 PST

Video - Audience reactions to Mojo and the Sayso

This is a video of audience reactions to the play The Mojo and the Sayso, running at ACT through September 30.You can learn more about the play, read reviews and more on our site. We are loca...
Posted by ACT Theatre on Fri, 14 Sep 2007 04:46:00 PST

Mojo and the Sayso video

Mojo and the Sayso is coming up next, August 31 - September 30.We'll be posting more about it soon (a very interesting play). ...
Posted by ACT Theatre on Wed, 22 Aug 2007 03:27:00 PST

First Class set construction timelapse

This is a timelapse video of the First Class set going up. The play and the after cabaret close August 26. See more on our site....
Posted by ACT Theatre on Wed, 22 Aug 2007 03:21:00 PST

Roethke inspired music, dance and readings, starting Friday 8/3

The Roethke Readings: A Cabaret of Meter and Madness starts this Friday (8/3) with many writers and performers celebrating the work of Theodore Roethke. The cabaret runs Friday and Saturday this wee...
Posted by ACT Theatre on Fri, 03 Aug 2007 01:57:00 PST

Creating 'First Class', a play about Theodore Roethke

A behind the scenes look at creating the new play 'First Class', about poet Theodore Roethke, featuring David Wagoner, Kurt Beattie and John Aylward. You can learn more about the play on our site, ht...
Posted by ACT Theatre on Thu, 26 Jul 2007 03:15:00 PST

Video of audience reactions to 'Stuff Happens'

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Posted by ACT Theatre on Fri, 20 Jul 2007 04:25:00 PST

Time-lapse of the Stuff Happens set going up

This is a timelapse video of the Stuff Happens set going up. You can read more about the play at http://www.acttheatre.org/StuffHappens ...
Posted by ACT Theatre on Thu, 28 Jun 2007 02:38:00 PST