Cocktails & Critics: TACT's Glittering New Season "Superb!" "Delicious" "One of the Most Important Companies in New York"  These are just a few of the many accolades heaped upon TACT/The Actors Company Theatre in the three years we’ve been in residence at Theatre Row. At the risk of tooting our own horn, we are bursting with pride. 2008/09 was, without question, our most successful season to date – and in what had to be one of the toughest years for the arts. TACT garnered some of the best notices of the theatrical season with our productions of both Bedroom Farce and Incident at Vichy, selling out their runs. We also extended the performance schedule of our celebrated Salon Series to accommodate a very gratifying surge in subscribers, and our production of The Eccentricities of a Nightingale landed on The New York Times Top Theatre Picks for 2008! But we’re just getting started. Our growth and success is directly related to the support we’ve received from our long-time subscribers and contributors - and that keeps growing as well. Our loyal audiences have cheered us on and spurred us to reach for increasingly loftier goals, helping TACT to mature into one of New York’s most valued and respected not-for-profit theatre companies. Our critically-acclaimed ensemble of professional theatre artists remains committed to both our supporters and the rediscovery of exceptional, though rarely seen, plays by great writers. It is this commitment to our audience, our mission and our artists that has inspired this season’s selection of plays. In our early days, we often longed to have the opportunity to further develop some of the work we presented in our Concert Performances and Salon readings. This season we are celebrating our roots by doing just that. We bring you two remarkable plays that we’ve explored in the reading format and are now, at last, giving them their full due on the stages of Theatre Row. First up in November, Yankee practicality slams against the New York Art World in Sidney Howard’s sly 1930’s comedy, The Late Christopher Bean. Come spring you’re invited to the brilliant world of T.S. Eliot’s The Cocktail Party, where the traditional British drawing-room comedy tangles with philosophical discourse on the nature of human relations. |
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