The Acting Company–Kent Gash, Artistic Director; Erik Schroeder, Managing Director; Devin Brain, Producing Director–has announced its 2024-2025 season of programming, which features a 26-week National Tour of August Wilson’s Two Trains Running in repertory with Christina Anderson’s modern verse translation of Shakespeare‘s The Comedy of Errors. New York performances include the Louanna O. Carlin and John MacDonald reading series of four plays as well as works spotlighting company alumni.
The Acting Company’s 2024-2025 repertory will premiere at Rubicon Theatre Company (Ventura, CA) on January 15, 2025 as the first stop on a national tour that will span 17 states and 22 cities and which will conclude at American Conservatory Theatre (San Francisco, CA) from April 15 to May 4, 2025.
The series of one-night only readings in New York will present interpretations of stories about the human condition, featuring the work of Ntozake Shange (For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf), Ann C. James (Broadway’s The Heart of Rock and Roll, Lempicka, The Outsiders, Sweeney Todd, Pass Over and Hamilton), Virginia Woolfe (Mrs. Dalloway, A Room of One’s Own, To the Lighthouse), Kevin Kuhlke (New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts), Ian Belknap (Off-Broadway’s X: or, Betty Shabazz v. The Nation at The New Victory), Seán O’Casey (Juno and the Paycock, The Plough and the Stars), Anthony Burgess (Broadway’s Cyrano de Bergerac, the West End’s A Clockwork Orange and Chatsky) and Artistic Director Kent Gash (Off-Broadway’s Miss Ever’s Boys, Call the Children Home and Samm-Art William’s Home).
Each season, The Acting Company hosts a series of staged readings. A mixture of new texts, classics of the canon and forgotten favorites, these readings are a showcase of The Acting Company’s alumni and a chance to explore other works by playwrights and directors featured in the company’s National Tours.
Since 1972, The Acting Company has performed for over four million people in 48 states, 10 foreign countries, on and Off-Broadway, and at leading resident theaters. Over 5,000 students in New York City and across the country benefit from The Acting Company’s in-school residencies and educator workshops every year. Annually, over 30,000 audience members see an Acting Company production across the country who otherwise lack access to professional classical theatre.
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