ACT Mainstage Productions
1995 - Present | 1985 - 1994 | 1975 - 1984 | 1965 - 1974
- Indicates a Hansberry Project mainstage production.
2007
The Clean House by Sarah Ruhl
Souvenir by Stephen Temperley
Stuff Happens by David Hare
First Class by David Wagoner (World Premiere)
The Mojo and the Sayso by Aishah Rahman
The Women by Clare Boothe Luce
2006
The Pillowman by Martin McDonagh
Miss Witherspoon by Christopher Durang
Wine in the Wilderness by Alice Childress
Mitzi’s Abortion by Elizabeth Heffron (World Premiere)
A Number by Caryl Churchill
The Underpants by Steve Martin
2005
Bach at Leipzig by Itamar Moses (West Coast Premiere)
The Ugly American by Mike Daisey (World Premiere)
Born Yesterday by Garson Kanin
The Night of the Iguana by Tennessee Williams
Vincent in Brixton by Nicholas Wright
Flight by Charlayne Woodard
2004
Alki by Eric Overmyer (World Premiere)
Enchanted April by Matthew Barber
Jumpers by Tom Stoppard
Good Boys by Jane Martin (West Coast Premiere)
Fiction by Steven Dietz (West Coast Premiere)
2003
Absurd Person Singular by Alan Ayckbourn
The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? By Edward Albee (West Coast Premiere)
A Moon for the Misbegotten by Eugene O’Neill
Omnium-Gatherum by Theresa Rebeck and Alexandra Gersten-Vassilaros (West Coast Premiere)
The Syringa Tree by Pamela Gien
2002
Mourning Becomes Electra by Eugene O’Neill
Dirty Blonde by Claudia Shear
Yellowman by Dael Orlandersmith
Wintertime by Charles L. Mee
Fuddy Meers by David Lindsay-Abaire
The Education of Randy Newman by Randy Newman, Michael Roth & Jerry Patch (World Premiere)
2001
Big Love by Charles L. Mee (West Coast Premiere)
Dinner with Friends by Donald Margulies
Polish Joke by David Ives (World Premiere)
Waiting to Be Invited by S.M. Shephard-Massat
A Little Night Music by Stephen Sondheim
Grand Magic by Eduardo de Filippo
2000
God of Vengeance by Donald Margulies (World Premiere)
Talley’s Folly by Lanford Wilson
2.5 Minute Ride by Lisa Kron
A Skull in Connemara by Martin McDonagh
In the Penal Colony by Philip Glass (World Premiere)
The Odd Couple by Neil Simon
1999
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
Goblin Market by Polly Pen & Peggy Harmon
Stonewall Jackson’s House by Jonathan Reynolds
Temporary Help by David Wiltse (World Premiere)
Side Man by Warren Leight (West Coast Premiere)
Communicating Doors by Alan Ayckbourn
1998
Thunder Knocking on the Door by Keith Glover
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
Collected Stories by Donald Margulies
Scent of the Roses by Lisette Lecat Ross (World Premiere)
The Summer Moon by John Olive (World Premiere)
Quills by Doug Wright
Violet by Jeanine Tesori
1997
The Notebook of Trigorin by Tennessee Williams
The Nina Variations by Steven Dietz
Room Service by John Murray and Allen Boretz
Going to St. Ives by Lee Blessing (World Premiere)
Blues for an Alabama Sky by Pearl Cleage
Old Wicked Songs by Jon Marans
The Big Slam by Bill Corbett
1996
Arcadia by Tom Stoppard
Avenue X by Jon Jiler and Ray Leslee
Laughter on the 23rd Floor by Neil Simon
Cheap* by Tom Topor (World Premiere)
The Crimson Thread by Mary Hanes
My One Good Nerve by Ruby Dee (World Premiere)
*First performance in Kreielsheimer Place, downtown Seattle
1995
The Gospel at Colonus by Lee Breuer and Bob Telson
Hospitality by Allan Havis
Handing Down the Names by Steven Dietz (World Premiere)
Later Life by A.R. Gurney
Tea by Velina Hasu Houston
The Language of Flowers by Edit Villarreal (World Premiere)
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1994
Betty the Yeti by Jon Klein
Gray’s Anatomy by Jim Leonard, Jr. (World Premiere)
Keely and Du by Jane Martin
Man of the Moment by Alan Ayckbourn
Fish Head Soup by Philip Kan Gotanda
Voices in the Dark by John Pielmeier (World Premiere)
1993
The Red and the Black by Jon Klein (World Premiere)
The Cover of Life by R.T. Robinson
Lonely Planet by Steven Dietz
Life During Wartime by Keith Reddin
Agnes Smedley: Our American Friend by Doris Baizley (World Premiere)
Dreams From a Summer House by Alan Ayckbourn and John Pattison
1992
Trust by Steven Dietz (World Premiere)
Shadowlands by William Nicholson
The Revengers’ Comedies (Parts I and II) by Alan Ayckbourn
Eleemosynary by Lee Blessing
Sunsets and Glories by Peter Barnes
1991
My Children! My Africa! by Athol Fugard
The Illusion by Tony Kushner
Tears of Rage by Doris Baizley (World Premiere)
Our Country’s Good by Timberlake Wertenbaker
Willi: An Evening of Wilderness and Spirit by John Pielmeier (World Premiere)
Halcyon Days by Steven Dietz (World Premiere)
1990
An American Comedy by Richard Nelson
Lloyd’s Prayer by Kevin Kling
A Normal Life by Erik Brogger (World Premiere)
Born in the RSA by Barney Simon and The Market Theatre Company
Four Our Fathers by Jon Klein
Hapgood by Tom Stoppard
1989
The Downside by Richard Dresser
Breaking the Silence by Stephen Poliakoff
A Walk in the Woods by Lee Blessing
Red Noses by Peter Barnes
Happenstance by Steven Dietz and Eric Bain Peltoniemi (World Premiere)
Woman in Mind by Alan Ayckbourn
1988
Merrily We Roll Along by Stephen Sondheim and George Furth
Mrs. California by Doris Baizley
A Chorus of Disapproval by Alan Ayckbourn
God’s Country by Steven Dietz (World Premiere)
Principia Scriptoriae by Richard Nelson
The Voice of the Prairie by John Olive
1987
March of the Falsettos by William Finn
A Lie of the Mind by Sam Shepard
The Diary of a Scoundrel by Erik Brogger
The Marriage of Bette and Boo by Christopher Durang
Glengarry Glen Ross by David Mamet
Biloxi Blues by Neil Simon
1986
On the Razzle by Tom Stoppard
Painting Churches by Tina Howe
Tales from Hollywood by Christopher Hampton
Brighton Beach Memoirs by Neil Simon
The Jail Diary of Albie Sachs by David Edgar
Little Shop of Horrors by Howard Ashman and Alan Menken
1985
King Lear by William Shakespeare
True West by Sam Shepard
Maydays by David Edgar
Other Places by Harold Pinter
End of the World by Arthur Kopit
Quartermaine’s Terms by Simon Gray
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1984
Amadeus by Peter Shaffer
Top Girls by Caryl Churchill
Angels Fall by Lanford Wilson
Thirteen by Lynda Myles (World Premiere)
Fool for Love by Sam Shepard
The Communication Cord by Brian Friel
1983
The Dresser by Ronald Harwood
The Dining Room by A.R. Gurney
Crimes of the Heart by Beth Henley
Educating Rita by Willy Russell
A Soldier’s Play by Charles Fuller
Cloud 9 by Caryl Churchill
1982
Da by Hugh Leonard
Fridays by Andrew Johns
Waiting for the Parade by John Murrell
The Gin Game by D.L. Coburn
The Greeks: The War (Part 1) by John Barton and Kenneth Cavander
The Greeks: The Gods (Part 2) by John Barton and Kenneth Cavander
1981
Custer by Robert E. Ingham
Getting Out by Marsha Norman
Billy Bishop Goes to War by John Gray with Eric Peterson
Night and Day by Tom Stoppard
Loose Ends by Michael Weller
Whose Life Is It, Anyway? by Brian Clark
1980
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf by Ntozake Shange
Catholics by Brian Moore (World Premiere)
Artichoke by Joanna Glass
Wings by Arthur Kopit
Buried Child by Sam Shepard
Starting Here, Starting Now by Richard Maltby, Jr. and David Shire
1979
Man and Superman by George Bernard Shaw
Fanshen by David Hare
Otherwise Engaged by Simon Gray
Holy Ghosts by Romulus Linney
The Water Engine by David Mamet
The Fantasticks by Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt
1978
Henry IV, Part I by William Shakespeare
The Shadow Box by Michael Cristofer
Ballymurphy by Michael Neville (World Premiere)
The Sea Horse by Edward J. Moore
Makassar Reef by Alexander Buzo
Anything Goes by Cole Porter, Guy Bolton and P.G. Wodehouse
1977
As You Like It by William Shakespeare
Travesties by Tom Stoppard
Ladyhouse Blues by Kevin O’Morrison
Streamers by David Rabe
The Club by Eve Merriam
Absurd Person Singular by Alan Ayckbourn
1976
Sizwe Bansi Is Dead by Athol Fugard, John Kani and Winston Ntshona
The Time of Your Life by William Saroyan
Scapino by Frank Dunlop and Jim Dale
Desire Under the Elms by Eugene O’Neill
Relatively Speaking by Alan Ayckbourn
Boccaccio by Kenneth Cavander
1975
Sleuth by Anthony Schaffer
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui by Bertolt Brecht
When You Comin’ Back, Red Rider? by Mark Medoff
Quiet Caravans by Barry Dinerman (World Premiere)
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Oh Coward! by Roderick Cook
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1974
The Hot L Baltimore by Lanford Wilson
Twigs by George Furth
A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
Count Dracula by Ted Tiller
In Celebration by David Storey
The Chairs/The Bald Soprano by Eugene Ionesco
Godspell by Stephen Schwarts and John Michael Tebelak
1973
No Place to Be Somebody by Charles Cordone
Old Times by Harold Pinter
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Dale Wasserman
The Contractor by David Storey
A Conflict of Interest by Jay Broad
A Day in the Death of Joe Egg by Peter Nichols
The Decline and Fall of the Entire World as Seen Through the Eyes of Cole Porter by Ben Bagley
1972
The Me Nobody Knows by Gary William Friedman and Will Holt
What the Butler Saw by Joe Orton
The Effects of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds by Paul Zindel
Echoes by N. Richard Nash (World Premiere)
The Trial of the Catonsville Nine by Fr. Daniel Berrigan
Moonchildren by Michael Weller
Butterflies Are Free by Leonard Gershe
1971
Hadrian VII by Peter Luke
The Boys in the Band by Mart Crowley
The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Lee
Ceremonies in Dark Old Men by Lonne Elder III
Plaza Suite by Neil Simon
A Cry of Players by William Gibson
You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown by Clark Gesner and John Gordon
1970
The Birthday Party by Harold Pinter and The Balcony by Jean Genet
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard
The Caucasian Chalk Circle by Bertolt Brecht
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Jay Presson Allen
Endgame by Samuel Beckett
Your Own Thing by Hal Hester and Danny Apolinar
1969
Celebration by Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt
The Homecoming by Harold Pinter
Rhinoceros by Eugene Ionesco
Inadmissible Evidence by John Osborne
Marat-Sade by Peter Weiss
Philadelphia, Here I Come by Brian Friel
Crabdance by Beverly Simons (World Premiere)
1968
Slow Dance on the Killing Ground by William Hanley
Eh? by Henry Livings
Royal Hunt of the Sun by Peter Shaffer
The Lion in Winter by James Goldman
Black Comedy by Peter Shaffer and Captain Fantastick Meets the Ectomorph by Barry Pritchard
A Delicate Balance by Edward Albee
Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
1967
Luv by Murray Schisgal
The Deputy by Rolf Hochhuth
Out at Sea/Striptease by Slawomir Mrozek
After the Fall by Arthur Miller
The Great Divide by William Vaughn Moody
The Fantasticks by Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt
The Caretaker by Harold Pinter
1966
In White America by Martin B. Duberman
The Typist/The Tiger by Murray Schisgal
Tiny Alice by Edward Albee
A Thurber Carnival by James Thurber
The Physicists by Freidrich Duerrenmatt
Arsenic and Old Lace by Joseph Kesselring
The Collection/The Room by Harold Pinter
1965
Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama’s Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feeling So Sad by Arthur Kopit
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams
Who’ll Save the Plowboy? by Frank Gilroy
Dark of the Moon by H. Richardson and William Berney
The Private Ear/The Public Eye by Peter Shaffer
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The Hansberry Project Productions
This history includes Hansberry Project mainstage ACT productions, in addition to others.
Wild Black-Eyed Susans by Kara Lee Cothron
February 3 – 17, 2008 at the Ethnic Cultural Theatre
The Mojo and the Sayso, By Aishah Rahman
August 31 - September 30, 2007
World Premiere: Etta Phifer’s Testimonial Shoe Kismet by Shontina Vernon
June 16 - July 8, 2007
Wine in the Wilderness by Alice Childress
June 9 - July 9, 2006
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