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Readings

The Acting Company's John McDonald Salon Readings offers a unique opportunity to see captivating but rarely-produced plays, performed by prominent New York stage actors and guest stars. Each reading is followed by a reception where you will have the chance to interact with the cast and director over wine and refreshments. The series provides financial support for The Acting Company's Learning Through Theater Program in New York City Schools during our annual New York Season.

TICKETS:   Patron $60   Regular $35

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Play titles and dates are subject to change.

To Purchase tickets please call 212-258-3111 or click BUY TICKETS links below.

PLEASE NOTE:  VENUE LOCATION
The performance of GOODBYE, MY FANCY on MAY 20 will be at the Main Stage at Playwrights Horizons, 416 West 42nd St. NYC.

Goodbye, My Fancy

by Fay Kanin
directed by Ian Belknap
with Dana Ivey, Marylouise Burke, Jay O. Sanders, David Lansbury Plus Acting Company Alums: Kelsey Landon, Kevin Orton, Angela Pierce & Michele Tauber

A Broadway hit in the late 40’s, this romantic comedy features a Congresswoman returning to her alma mater to receive an honorary degree long after she had been expelled for an all-night date with a young professor — now the university president. The romantic fires are rekindled when the two meet but, the value of personal integrity, academic freedom and the will to take leave of the past and live in the present interfere.

sponsored by Lori-Ann Wynter

VENUE: Main Stage at Playwrights Horizons, 416 West 42nd St. NYC.

May 20, 2013

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All Is Forgiven

ADDITIONAL SALON READING
a new play by Joe Keenan
with Harriet Harris, Peter Bartlett, Emily Bergl, Jeff McCarthy, Matt Bradford Sullivan

A close-knit circle of friends, most of them in the theater, is appalled when Kenneth, the dynamic center of the group, leaves his wife for a younger woman.  To make matters worse, his wife Abby is a beloved actress and recent cancer survivor who was just beginning to get back on her feet.  The friends all rally around Abby and sternly inform Kenneth that they’ll never speak to him again. But when Ken gets hired to direct a Broadway production of "The Cherry Orchard" —starring Dame Helen Mirren! — his friends start to wonder if they haven't been perhaps just a bit too harsh.

All Is Forgiven is a mordant comedy about friendship, loyalty, star worship, and the endless battle between ethics and self-interest. Its characters are forced to ask hard questions like, “When is mercy just a means to an end?”...  "When does principle become mere stubbornness?”...  and “Will Helen be at the dinner party?”

VENUE: Culture Project, 49 Bleecker Street (at Lafayette), NYC.

June 24, 2013