2020-21 Season Showings
DoubleWide, Texas
September 25-27 & October 2-4, 2020 on the ACT Main Stage.
This is the regional premier of this fast-paced comedy about the inhabitants of one of the smallest trailer parks in Texas — four doublewides and a shed — who are thrown for a loop when they realize the nearby town of Tugaloo is determined to annex them. Produced by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
by Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope, & Jamie Wooten, and directed by Stacey Smith
Other Desert Cities
November 13-15 & 20-22, 2020, on the ACT Main Stage
Brooke Wyeth returns home to Palm Springs after a six-year absence to celebrate Christmas with her parents, her brother, and her aunt, announcing that she is about to publish a memoir dredging up a pivotal and tragic event in the family’s history—a wound they don’t want reopened. Produced by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
by Jon Robin Baitz, and directed by Adam Singleton
Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol
December 11-13 & 18-20, 2020, in ACT’s Black Box Theatre in ACT II
Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol: “Marley was dead, to begin with...,” but perhaps he had more involvement with Scrooge’s redemption than Dickens led us to believe. Produced by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
by Tom Mula and directed by Mike Stephens
Much Ado About Nothing
February 12-14 & 19-21, 2021, on the ACT Main Stage.
A comedic play about misunderstandings, love and deception. Benedick and Beatrice don't love each other but then they do. Claudio and Hero love each other but then they don't but then they do again. Everyone gets married.
by William Shakespeare, directed by Amanda Keith
Almost, Maine
March 19-21 & 26-28, 2021, on the ACT Main Stage.
Welcome to Almost, Maine, a place that’s so far north, it’s almost not in the United States. One cold, clear, winter night, as the northern lights hover in the star-filled sky above, the residents find themselves falling in and out of love in unexpected and hilarious ways.Produced by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
by John Cariani, and directed by Tyler Sparks
The Book Of Everything
May 14-16 & 21-23, 2021, on the ACT Main Stage
Nine year-old Thomas can see things no one else can: tropical fish thriving in the Amsterdam canals, trumpeting sparrows and even a hailstorm of frogs. He also sees the unhappiness of his family, the violence in his father, and pain that lingers. All this – good and bad – he carefully records in his magical and hopeful Book of Everything. Produced by special arrangement with Plays for Young Audiences.
by Richard Tulloch & Guus Kuijer, and directed by Ginger Vinson and Jeremy L Matta
Peter Pan
Bonus Production: June 11-13 & 18-20, 2021, on the ACT Main Stage
When Peter Pan, leader of the Lost Boys, loses his shadow, headstrong Wendy helps him to reattach it. In return, she is invited to Neverland, where Tinker Bell the fairy, Tiger Lily and the vengeful Captain Hook await.
based on the work of J.M. Barrie, and directed by Lorrie Renfro