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  • Arcadia

    Arcadia

    Every Tue., Wed., Thu., Fri., Sat., Sun. until June 9

    Revival of Sir Tom Stoppard's time-jumping 1993 classic.

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  • To Go

    To Go

    Based on the true story of Ming Kuang Chen, an illegal Chinese immigrant who was stuck in an elevator in the Bronx for nearly 81 hours in 2005, Stuck Elevator seems to pose an obvious staging problem: How do you get a show out of a 4-by-6-foot... More »

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    "The Normal Heart": Larry Kramer Looks Back in Anger

    Now on tour at American Conservatory Theater, the Tony Award-winning revival of The Normal Heart features a mode of acting we don't see often in the Bay Area. Character after character in Larry Kramer's drama, which chronicles the American onset... More »

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    "Humor Abuse": A Son Remembers the Pickle Family Circus

    For some of us, the allure of running away with the circus, traveling in gypsy vans, living in backstage tent cities, and clowning around is but a dream, a Fellini movie. For Lorenzo Pisoni, literally born into San Francisco's Pickle Family... More »

  • For the Bob Cratchit in Us All

    For the Bob Cratchit in Us All

    A.C.T. has staged A Christmas Carol for 35 years, but in today's political and economic climate, Carey Perloff and Paul Walsh's adaptation of the Dickens novella could hardly feel timelier. "The parallels between now and what was going on... More »

  • Timeless -- and Timely -- as Ever

    Timeless -- and Timely -- as Ever

    A.C.T. has staged A Christmas Carol for 35 years, but in today’s political and economic climate, Carey Perloff and Paul Walsh’s adaptation of the Dickens novella could hardly feel timelier. “The parallels between now and what was going on... More »

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  • 2011 | Best Stage Actress

    As the curtain rises on Harold Pinter's 1964 play The Homecoming, we find ourselves in a North London house full of men brimming with unexamined rage. Enter Ruth, returning to England after a few years' absence in America. She places the men under her spell even as she surrenders to their need for sexual conquest -- and by play's end, she becomes both den mother and whore. Only an actress of remarkable depth can handle one of modern theater's most enigmatic roles, and René... More »

  • 2005 | Best Costume Rental

    Each Halloween San Francisco's costume shops overflow with folks looking to rent kitschy gear for an evening -- did you want to be a flapper, a chicken, or a medieval warrior? But the most elegant, amazing costumes by far are to be found at ACT's Costume Shop, an offshoot of the famed theatrical company, at which the clothing that swathed actors in past productions can be rented for about $100 per week. The cost is relatively high, but it's worth it for big events: We know of one woman who... More »

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