The decade of the 2020s started with ACT being dark for the entire 2020 mainstage season. While closed
for the pandemic, there was a change in leadership as Anita Shah moved in as Managing Director. The
first play after the pandemic closure was Hotter Than Egypt, written by Core Company member Yussef el Guindi
- a world premiere.
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Thunder Knocking on the Door (1998)
Thunder has returned to Alabama to challenge the off-spring of the only man to outplay him on the delta blues guitar. Music written by Chris Cain and Michael Butler.
Death of a Salesman (1998)
The story of Willy Loman, an aging salesman who realizes that he has spent his life aspiring to dreams that will never come true. One of the greatest plays ever written, Salesman explodes the myth of the American Dream.
Collected Stories (1998)
In a book-cluttered Greenwich Village apartment, a celebrated writer and her adoring protege become close friends and confidantes - until ambition and betrayal catapult them onto a collision course.
Scent of the Roses (1998)
Julie Harris plays Annalise, a South African woman with a valuable and mysterious painting. When her grown children want her to sell it for her financial security — and their own she has to come to terms with a lost love.
Summer Moon (1998)
A warm, captivating story of one man faced with an impossible challenge — to introduce the first Japanese cars to America during the post-war boom years. Winner of the prestigious Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays.
Quills (1998)
A sinfully theatrical play about the final days of the Marquis de Sade. When the madhouse walls fail to keep the Marquis' depraved fantasies from seeping into Paris bookstalls, asylum officials are driven to desperate measures. Contains nudity, violence and frank sexual language.
Violet (1998)
An award-winning new musical about a disfigured young woman's pilgrimage to a faith healer and her hopes of a miracle to restore her lost beauty. Set to an exuberant score of gospel, bluegrass and R and B.
