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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Jacques Brel is Alive and Living in Paris (2015)
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (2015)
In ACT's first season, Seattle audiences got to see Tennessee Williams' CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF performed by the city's first summer stock company. Now, 50 years later, the play is a mainstay in the theatre canon, produced regularly around the world and with Broadway revivals occurring nearly every decade. The return of Big Daddy, Brick, and Maggie shows how ahead of its time this Pulitzer-winning play (performed on Broadway in 1955) was in grappling with familial expectations, deception, and sexual desire. Kurt Beattie directs this stormy and steamy American classic. Cast features Laura Griffith as Maggie the Cat and Brandon O'Neill as Brick.
Threesome (2015)
Award-winning local playwright Yussef El Guindi (PILGRIMS MUSA AND SHERI IN THE NEW WORLD; RAMAYANA) returns to ACT with a new play that weaves issues ripped from world headlines into an intimate and personal story. Co-Produced by Portland Center Stage and ACT, this production is directed by Chris Coleman and will soon premiere Off-Broadway.
Leila and Rashid, Egyptian Americans with ties to Cairo, attempt to solve their relationship issues by inviting a relative stranger into their bedroom to engage in a threesome. What begins as a hilariously awkward evening soon becomes an experience fraught with secrets, raising issues of sexism, cultural identity, possession, and independence.
Off-Broadway’s acclaimed 59E59 Theater has just announced that this production will travel to Manhattan with the same cast to perform Threesome for New York City audiences. El Guindi was also the 2013 winner of the Steinberg/ACTA Award – the nation’s largest new play award for his play Pilgrims Musa and Sheri in the New World which premiered here at ACT and was developed at the Icicle Creek New Play Festival.
Hold These Truths (2015)
Ryun Yu plays University of Washington student Gordon Hirabayahsi, who defied the government's 1942 Executive Order to intern all people of Japanese descent in the Western United States and spent the rest of his life trying to reconcile his loyalty to America with its betrayal of his ancestry.
Bloomsday (2015)
Can an old love be rekindled, a time in life reclaimed, a new course set?
Mr. Burns, a post-electric play (2015)