AMERICAN CONSERVATORY THEATER announces updated lineup & performance schedule for upcoming season
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American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) have announced an updated lineup and performance schedule for their upcoming season.
The West Coast premiere of award-winning playwright Christopher Chen’s The Headlands will now be replaced by a world premiere virtual play by Chen, running from 28 May-27 June 2021. Audiences will be invited to “connect” with a celebrated Bay Area actor looking to commune, live, with a select few via the Zoom video conferencing platform. The tale she has to tell is from the heart—but can you trust a person whose professional career has been spent making you believe she is someone that she is not? Is she at a crossroads, or is this a confession?
Lin-Manuel Miranda, Thomas Kail, and Bay Area-based Anthony Veneziale’s hip-hop improv sensation, Freestyle Love Supreme, will play from 21 January-13 February 2022. The show pays homage to John Coltrane’s improvisational musical style as it takes audiences on a freestyle, never-before-seen-and-never-to-be-seen-again hip-hop comedy ride.
A.C.T. will present María Irene Fornés’s landmark immersive play Fefu and Her Friends from 24 March-1 May 2022, replacing the previously-announced William Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale. The Cuban-American playwright’s rapturous comedy-drama allows the audience to be a fly on many walls in this unconventional tale of eight women gathering at a New England country home in 1935.
The National Theatre and Neal Street Productions’ critically-acclaimed smash-hit production, The Lehman Trilogy, will play from 20 April-22 May 2022; an epic story of a family and a company that changed the world. It is written by Stefano Massini, adapted by Ben Power and directed by Sam Mendes.
The world premiere of pre-Broadway musical Soul Train, based on the iconic TV show that brought Black music, dance, and style into every living room in America, will then run from 16 September-23 October 2022. The production has a book by Dominique Morisseau, with direction by Kamilah Forbes and choreography by Camille A. Brown.
Artistic Director Pam McKinnon said: “I so look forward to welcoming patrons back into our theaters, feeling the anticipation of a story about to begin, and then being part of an audience together participating in making the story complete. Whether it's by laughing, or throwing a prompt to the performers, or creating the spaces around the action, or actively listening so hard that the actors literally feel your energy, or clapping along and stomping your feet to the music, the audience makes the art form. I cannot wait.”
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