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American Conservatory Theater - ACT

415 Geary St.
San Francisco, CA 94102 map
cross street: Mason
district: Union Square/San Francisco Centre


Tel. +1 415.749.2228
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Events Calendar
Thu Dec 03 - Sun Dec 27
Scrooge is back, and he's meaner than ever in A.C.T.'s A Christmas Carol, the Bay Area's favorite holiday tradition. Featuring adorable Tiny Tim, those spooky Christmas ghosts, and a multigenerational cast of dozens, A Christmas Carol is a sparkling,... More
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About American Conservatory Theater - ACT

American Conservatory Theater nurtures the art of live theater through dynamic productions, intensive actor training in our conservatory, and an ongoing dialogue with our audience and our community. We embrace our responsibility to conserve, renew, and reinvent the rich theatrical traditions that are our collective legacy, while exploring new artistic forms and new communities.

The 2009-10 season has been announced! We're celebrating the 100th anniversary of A.C.T.'s magical, historical stage with a season as inspiring and unabashedly theatrical as the theater itself. The stage will be filled with great masters, unbridled passion, phenomenal acting, and big ideas, along with a host of free events, parties, and discussions—and we hope you'll join us for the adventure.

Visit www.act-sf.org/season to learn more!

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The Black Rider Image
The Black Rider
Innovative Musical Theater with Hipster Credentials
By Suzanne Kleid (09/04/2004)

" Based on a 19th century German tale, The Black Rider tells the story of Wilhelm, a clerk who will not be allowed to marry his love, Kathchen, unless he learns to hunt. Unable to kill anything except a vulture, he makes a deal with the devil: she gives him magic bullets that will kill anything he wants them to. "

Editorial Review
Eve Ensler's The Good Body Image
Eve Ensler's The Good Body
More Body, Less Vagina
By Nirmala Nataraj (07/02/2004)

" Five years ago, the word "vagina" kaboomed itself out of stagey whispers and into the very heart of the American milieu. With that, Eve Ensler went from being a theater nobody to a feminist playwright with global clout. Sometimes candid, sometimes tongue in cheek, and always extraordinary, Ensler's Vagina Monologues had a snowball effect being performed in more than 30 countries and translated into 28 languages. Now, after her infamous musings have accrued a gaggle of vagina aficionados and achieved a critical mass of performers (college drama classes and Hollywood debutantes alike), Ensler has turned her gaze to an area above... "

Editorial Review
American Buffalo: The Patriot Act at A.C.T.
By Melissa Broder
By SFS Staff (03/02/2003)

" Inspired by confessional neurotics such as Allen Ginsberg, Andy Warhol and Woody Allen, the postmodern arts have come to resemble private diary entries; yet the finest playwright is still able to transform a personal notion into a universal theme. David Mamet's American Buffalo, which premiered in Chicago in 1975, exceeds the barriers of class, location and time, presenting audiences with a suspicious analysis of the American dream. In the vein of his predecessor Edward Albee, Mamet chooses depth over quantity when creating his characters. Buffalo's plot centers around a day in the life of three men at a junk shop... "

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