Girl meets boy. Girl hates boy. Girl agrees to marry boy against her will so her sister can get married, too. Got it? Experience Shakespeare’s play of matrimonial misery as you’ve never seen it before. Shrew uses the classic text—inverted, upended, and overturned—to offer a modern-day perspective on how far we’ve come when it comes to love—and how far we still have to go. Shrew is presented by …
The Tony Award-winning adaptation comes to Seattle! Amy Herzog’s “smart, sharp, and relevant” (Deadline) take on this Henrik Ibsen timeless classic wraps us deep in an entangled web of truth, power and complacency. Dr. Stockmann has it all – but when he uncovers a catastrophe in the making that threatens lives, he runs up against those in …
Seattle Shakespeare Company and ACT Contemporary Theatre join forces to present Twelfth Night! Viola is in love with Duke Orsino, who is in love with Olivia, who is in love with Cesario, who is actually…Viola. Seattle Shakespeare Company makes its debut at ACT Contemporary Theatre with a new joint production of this gender-fluid romp and …
ACT Theatre presents Golden. Morris Golden reaches for answers as a mysterious change machine in his laundromat becomes an unexpected source of hope. From the mind of celebrated Seattle writer Andrew Lee Creech comes a riveting world premiere that peels back the layers of lives and relationships, revealing the profound impact of their choices and …
ACT Theatre presents The Last Five Years, a co-production with The 5th Avenue Theatre! The winner of two Drama Desk Awards, this modern musical takes a devastatingly honest look at Cathy and Jamie and their journey of falling in and out of love over five years. Jason Robert Brown’s cult favorite is a raw and intimate …
ACT Theatre presents Do the Right Thing. Performing for the first time in the Falls Theatre, ACT’s Young Core Company invites the community to share their Winter Acting Showcase. From a security guard and cop navigate a way forward together through a moral minefield to a devil who offers a trade – but is getting …
The astonishingly hilarious Dina Martina will return to ACT Theatre with her annual Christmas show! A beloved Seattle holiday tradition for more than 25 years, Dina Martina’s Christmas Shows are jam-packed with traditional as well as contemporary holiday tunes, both treated with Miss Martina’s fresh and undeniably surreal comic sensibility. Get info and tickets at …