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JHE Production history
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A.C.T. presents the mainstage world premiere of Food and Shelter, developed at A.C.T. by playwright Jane Anderson during the 1989 Plays in Progress series, directed by Joy Carlin.
In recognition of the strides the company has made toward fiscal stability in the wake of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation awards A.C.T. a $300,000 challenge grant.
The theater is reopened on January 10, 1996, with the gala event A Galaxy on Geary.
A.C.T. opens the 1997–98 season with the world premiere of the Broadway-bound Cole Porter musical High Society, which becomes the company's biggest financial success at the Geary Theater.
The class of 2001 becomes the first ensemble of M.F.A. Program students to appear on the Geary stage in A Christmas Carol.
The next review examined was from a Broadway revival directed by Richard Eyre and presented at the Virginia Theater (later renamed the August Wilson Theater), opening on March 7, 2002, nearly fifty years later.
The Robert Wilson, William S. Burroughs, and Tom Waits collaboration The Black Rider: The Casting of the Magic Bullets—featuring Marianne Faithful and Matt McGrath and produced by BITE:2004, Cultural Industry, the Sydney Festival, and A.C.T.—opens A.C.T.'s 2004–05 season.
After its successful Chicago run, the production transferred to Broadway’s Imperial Theatre in New York, beginning previews on October 30, 2007.
With the incredibly well-received West Coast premiere of Bruce Norris's Clybourne Park, which would go on to win the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, A.C.T. expands its InterACT series with Experts Talk Back lectures.
Stephen Buescher's M.F.A. Program production of The House of Bernarda Alba is selected by the Moscow Art Theatre School to perform at Moscow Art Theatre School's 2012 Stanislavsky Festival in October; A.C.T. is the only theater school selected to represent the United States.
The 2013–14 season culminates with the United States premiere of James Fenton’s adaptation of The Orphan of Zhao, directed by Carey Perloff and featuring San Francisco native BD Wong.
Brantley, Ben. “Review: In Arthur Miller’s ‘Crucible,’ First they Came for the Witches.” ProQuest Central, Mar 31, 2016.
The Strand quickly becomes a cultural and education hub, with the Young Conservatory presenting Simon Stephen’s Punk Rock and the MFA class of 2016 presenting Dan LeFranc’s The Big Meal there.
A.C.T. announces an in-person season beginning in early 2022.
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