The Acting Company

Season Announcement

2014-15 SEASON – OUR 42ND!

MARK TWAIN’S A CONNECTICUT YANKEE IN KING ARTHUR’S COURT, a newly commissioned play by JEFFREY HATCHER, and SHAKESPEARE’S MACBETH comprise the 42nd Season of The Acting Company productions to be presented in residency at Minneapolis’ Guthrie Theater (February 14-March 1), in New York at the Pearl Theatre (March 31-April 12), and on national tour. Acting Company Artistic Director IAN BELKNAP will direct Connecticut Yankee; DEVIN BRAIN directs Macbeth. 

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Upcoming Salon Reading

Staged Reading of THE CRADLE SONG

March 9 at 7pm: 
THE CRADLE SONG
by GREGORIO MARTINEZ SIERRA
featuring multi-award winners 
DANA IVEY and JOHN McMARTIN
directed by JONATHAN BANK 
(Artistic Director of the Mint)

at The Pearl Theatre, NYC

Still a perfect gem of a play.

A small child left at a convent brings new life to the nuns, transforming them from strict and cold to lenient and warm. Full of Spanish grace, forgiveness and delicate shades of meaning, The Cradle Song has been translated into many languages and performed worldwide but not seen on Broadway since Eva Le Gallienne directed it in 1927.

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General News

ON STAGE ACROSS AMERICA

Time Warner’s NY1 produced a short piece about The Acting Company’s national tour for their new program On Stage Across America, a monthly TV show dedicated to the vast array of American theater including Broadway, Touring Broadway, Regional Theater and local High School productions from across the country. The program premieres a new episode the first week of each month on TWC Video On Demand, select TWC local channels and online. Click HERE to view their segment on The Acting Company.