The Acting Company

Season Announcement

The Acting Company Announces 2016-17 Season National Tour

The Acting Company will kick off its national tour this season with a world premiere of a newly commissioned play by Marcus Gardley (Desire, The House That Will Not Stand) on January 31, 2017.

As part of the company's tour, The Acting Company will perform at the New Victory Theater in NYC March 17-26: the New York premiere of Marcus Gardley’s X about the assassination of Malcolm X, to be directed by Artistic Director Ian Belknap, and run in repertory with William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, to be directed by Devin Brain.

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GALA News

Fall Gala - October 17

On October 17, The Acting Company will honor J. BARCLAY COLLINS as The Honorable Thomas Keane presents the Joan M. Warburg Humanitarian Award and MARK LAMOS as Richard Thomas presents the John Houseman Award at The Metropolitan Club, One East Sixtieth Street, NYC

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General News

We Remember Our Friends and Colleagues James Houghton and Zelda Fichandler

The Acting Company mourns the loss of former company member, friend and esteemed colleague James Houghton and former Artistic Director and friend Zelda Fichandler.

James Houghton
Company Member 1986-87
Performed in The Acting Company productions of The Gilded Age (appearing in photo with Craig Bryant and members of The Company, directed by Mark Lamos) and Orchards

Zelda Fichandler,
Artistic Director 1990-1993