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Disconnected in the Connected Age
New Caryl Churchill play breaks in ACT’s shiny new Strand Theater.
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The Suit Unravels
The great director Peter Brook comes to ACT with an Apartheid-era South African fable, and the results are… eh.
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Masochism Tango
American Conservatory Theater’s masochistic backstage comedy isn’t exactly hard-hitting.
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Think Inside the Box
The cool thing about Stuck Elevator is that it’s a musical about a Chinese delivery guy getting stuck in the elevator of a Bronx…
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Political Sniping
A former army sniper recently returned from Afghanistan finally finds a job…on a monstrously cynical right-wing political campaign.
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Embarrassment of Riches
Boy, this was a hard year to reduce to a Top Ten. When I look over the list of the 117 shows I attended…
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It’s Creepy Time Down South
Now making its Bay Area debut at American Conservatory Theater, The Scottsboro Boys is a curious concoction that probably shouldn’t work as well as…
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Play’s the Thing
The announcement late last year that American Conservatory Theater would be staging Samuel Beckett’s Endgame and Play this season in lieu of the previously…