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PATTI LUPONE REPRISES HER OLIVIER AWARD-WINNING ROLE Box Office Now Open

Special Events

PATTI LUPONE REPRISES HER OLIVIER AWARD-WINNING ROLE Box Office Now Open

TICKETS NOW ON SALE!!! ONE NIGHT ONLY BENEFIT—MAY 19

JOHN HOUSEMAN’S CRADLE WILL ROCK ONCE MORE WITH HIS SPECTACULAR 1985 CAST

Patti LuPone steps back into the role that led to her 1985 Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical as Moll in The Cradle Will Rock on Monday, May 19, 7pm at Broadway’s Bernard Jacobs Theatre, 242 West 45th Street. The concert staging of Marc Blitzstein’s iconic work will benefit The Acting Company, co-founded by John Houseman, Cradle’s original producer in 1937, who directed Ms. LuPone and a cast of Acting Company Alumni in a revival almost 50 years later. Lonny Price (Lincoln Center’s Sweeney Todd and Company) will direct; Michael Barrett (Caramoor, NY Festival of Song) will again serve as musical director and play the score as he did in the 1980’s production. 

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Rocky’s Dakin Matthews, Fred Arsenault, David Manis star in The Voysey Inheritance April 7

Upcoming Salon Reading

Rocky’s Dakin Matthews, Fred Arsenault, David Manis star in The Voysey Inheritance April 7

The Acting Company will present a staged reading of The Voysey Inheritance, by Harley-Granville-Barker, adapted by Gavin Witt, directed by Irene Lewis at 7 pm on Monday, April 7 at the the Mainstage at Playwrights Horizons, 416 West 42nd Street (9th-10th Avenues). The performance—starring Dakin Matthews (Rocky), David Manis, Diane Kagan, Acting Company Alums Fred Arsenault, Leslie Geraci and Andrew Weems, Juliet Brett, Trent Dawson, T. J. Edwards, Gretchen Hall, Diana LaMar —will be followed by a reception with the cast and director, Irene Lewis.

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BACK ON THE ROAD AFTER SPECTACULAR NEW YORK RUN

TOUR RESUMES – WHITEWATER AND BEYOND

BACK ON THE ROAD AFTER SPECTACULAR NEW YORK RUN

After a SOLD OUT, month-long run Off-Broadway at the Pearl Theatre, the tour of HAMLET and ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD has resumed with performances this winter and spring in Whitewater, Wisconsin, Appleton, Gary, IN, Flint and Houghton, Michigan and eight other states across the country before returning to the East Coast and ending at The Guthrie in Minneapolis in May. Come see us in a community near you. CLICK HERE for full tour itinerary.