Many Happy Returns
The Wall Street Journal
Terry Teachout
December 28, 2012
Company of the year. New York's TACT/The Actors Company Theatre, which specializes in "neglected or rarely produced plays of literary merit," presented a perception-changing revival of Neil Simon's... [read more]
A Flop That Was Far Ahead of its Time
Wall Street Journal
Terry Teachout
Sept 26 2013
William Inge wrote four straight Broadway hits, followed by three straight flops. Seven years after the last flop closed, he killed himself. It took three decades before his reputation began to... [read more]
All Steamed Up and Boiling Over
Off Off Online
Edward Karam
Sept 29 2013
TACT’s revival of William Inge’s 1963 play Natural Affection is the first since the Broadway premiere. Though the drama flopped (perhaps partly attributable to the 1962 newspaper strike... [read more]
All Steamed Up and Boiling Over
Off Off Online
Edward Karam
Sept 29 2013
TACT’s revival of William Inge’s 1963 play Natural Affection is the first since the Broadway premiere. Though the drama flopped (perhaps partly attributable to the 1962 newspaper strike... [read more]
"Natural Affection" at Beckett Theater at Theater Row
Theatre Reviews Limited
David Roberts
Sept 27 2013
If one of TACT’s missions is to discover and produce lost plays, their endeavors have reached a significant level of success in their recent production of William Inge’s “Natural... [read more]
William Inge Exposed Anew in Off-Broadway’s “Natural Affectionâ€
Kenneth Jones
Sept 27 2013
The first great discovery of the 2013-14 Off-Broadway season, TACT/The Actors Company Theatre’s Natural Affection by William Inge, expertly directed by Jenn Thompson, is bait for those of us... [read more]
Natural Affection
Lighting and Sound America
David Barbour
Sept 27 2013
We're lucky to have the likes of The Actors Company Theatre, The Mint Theater, and Keen Company, all of which have made it their mission to curate our theatrical past. I'm especially grateful for... [read more]
Natural Affection
Curtain Up
Elyse Sommer
The play was Inge's attempt to give some explanation for the apparent explosion of "bizarre and irrational killings" that were permeating the atmosphere in American cities. Imagine his reaction to the... [read more]
Natural Affection
The New Yorker
In the early sixties, Bernie Slovenk (Alec Beard), a frustrated car salesman, is not at all happy when Donnie (Chris Bert), the seventeen-year-old son of his girlfriend, Sue (Kathryn Erbe), arrives at... [read more]
Natural Affection
Edge NY
Maya Phillips
Sept 27 2013
There are plays that bellow, that explode onto the stage and plow through the plot with more passion than subtlety, and there are plays that whisper, tip-toe through their themes and adhere firmly to... [read more]
A Darker William Inge Discovered Off Broadway
Talk Entertainment
Oscar E. Moore
For all those theatrical trivia buffs interested in whatever happened to William Inge’s NATURAL AFFECTION (which might have been better titled UN-NATURAL AFFECTION) his 1963 drama that lasted a... [read more]
Natural Affection
Wolf Entertainment
William Wolf
It was tragic that William Inge’s play flopped when it opened on Broadway in 1963, and The Actor’s Company Theatre (TACT) has done a special service in giving it a powerful revival on... [read more]
Natural Affection
Wolf Entertainment
William Wolf
It was tragic that William Inge’s play flopped when it opened on Broadway in 1963, and The Actor’s Company Theatre (TACT) has done a special service in giving it a powerful revival on... [read more]
Natural Affection at TACT
Theatre Pizzazz
Joe Regan, Jr
Sept 26 2013
TACT/The Actors Company Theatre is dedicated to presenting neglected or rarely produced plays of literary merit. Last season there was an exhilarating revival of Anita Loos’ Happy Birthday... [read more]
What’s It All About, Donnie? A Theater Review: “Natural Affectionâ€
Manhattan Digest
Ryan Leeds
Sept 26 2013
Alcoholism, incest, murder, and repressed homosexuality. It’s all in a day’s work for the current company of TACT (The Actor’s Company Theatre) – and the work they are... [read more]
Natural Affection
Filichia on Friday
Peter Filichia
Sept 27 2013
You take an elevator down one flight in the Theatre Row complex to the Beckett to see NATURAL AFFECTION, William Inge’s 1963 play that the always impressive TACT is doing. Bernie is... [read more]
Review: Bittersweet views of romance in 'Lovers'
Associated Press
Jennifer Farrar
September 27, 2012
NEW YORK (AP) -- Brian Friel's duo of one-act plays, "Lovers", is a sweet-and-sour mixture, rich with Friel's lyric dialogue and empathy for human foibles. He presents us with two likable, engaged... [read more]
Tales of Hope and Regret Test the Standard of Time
The New York Times
Ken Jaworowski
September 30, 2012
"I can't wait for the future, Joe." Those words, joyfully delivered by Mag, a 17-year-old bundle of energy, are devastating to the audience. We've seen this lovely girl bound across the stage. We've... [read more]
In love with middle-aged lust
New York Post
Frank Scheck
September 30, 2012
Irish playwright Brian Friel has never been at a loss for words. And neither is Mag (Justine Salata), the 17-year-old who chatters on and on in "Lovers," now getting its first major production here... [read more]
Lovers
TheaterMania
David Finkle
September 28, 2012
TACT presents an entertaining revival of Brian Friel's pair of one-act plays. Brian Friel isn't completely convinced love is a forever thing. As proved by the entertaining revival of Lovers... [read more]
Lovers
Time Out NY
Jenna Scherer
October 1, 2012
What sucks more: being young and in love, or old and in love? If you're Irish, both! In 1967's Lovers, Brian Friel follows a pair of couples—one in their teens, one in their forties—as they... [read more]
Lovers
CurtainUP
Elyse Sommer
September 26, 2012
Tact (The Actors Company Theatre) has a mission of giving New York theater goers a chance to become acquainted or reacquainted with rarely revived plays. Often these revivals are done with a fresh new... [read more]
"Lovers" by Brian Friel at
Show Business Weekly
Iris Greenberger
September 28, 2012
Brian Friel's play Lovers, written in 1968, was first staged at Lincoln Center and then on Broadway. It received a Tony nomination for "Best Play." Thanks to TACT (The Actors Company Theatre), which... [read more]
How Love Dies: Two Versions
StageandCinema
Dmitry Zvonkov
September 25, 2012
Brian Friel's excellent 1968 play Lovers is actually two separate plays with similar themes and settings. Both take place in a small town in Ireland in the mid 1960's and both deal with how the hard... [read more]
"Lovers" Is Not Quite Revived
New York Theatre Wire
Paulanne Simmons
September 23, 2012
Brian Friel's "Lovers," first produced in 1967, is composed of two separate one-acts, "Winners" and "Loser," which work together to present very different but complementary views of love. Yet the two... [read more]
Lovers
Wolfe Entertainment Guide
William Wolfe
September 29, 2012
You have to wait until the second story "Losers" in Brian Friel's "Lovers," revived by TACT, The Actors Company Theatre, and directed by Drew Barr, for the most enjoyable part of the endeavor. Friel's... [read more]
Theatre in Review: Lovers (The Actors Company Theatre/ Theatre Row)
Light and Sound America
David Barbour
September 27, 2012
Lovers consists of a pair of one-acts, "Winners" and "Losers," but the line between the two, as is usually the case in the world of Brian Friel, is precariously thin. Not seen in New York since... [read more]
'Lovers' Is Well Acted, But a Bit Boring
Backstage
Suzy Evans
September 27, 2012
In "Lovers," as in life, there are winners and losers. Brian Friel's play gives nods to both; the first part is called "Winners," and the second called "Losers." Although these two parts are basically... [read more]
Romantic fantasy blooms in Anita Loos's blithe, booze-filled 'Happy Birthday'
The Washington Post
Jennifer Farrar
March 21, 2013
NEW YORK - Going on a public bender doesn't generally end well for single ladies, even in a friendly local watering hole, but Anita Loos wrote a light-hearted comedy on the subject that appears to... [read more]
Happy Birthday
New York Calling
William Wolf
March 23, 2013
HAPPY BIRTHDAY By William Wolf One of the season's finest performances by an actress can be found in the spirited revival of Anita Loos's 1946 hit play "Happy Birthday," being incisively... [read more]
Happy Birthday
Time Out New York
Helen Shaw
March 25, 2013
Critics Pick Four Stars The delights of this revival of the 1946 Anita Loos charmer Happy Birthday arrive in their own sweet time - both play and production make us wait for our pleasures. And... [read more]
Happy Birthday By Anita Loos
Broadway World After Eight
March 18, 2013
It's been a happy time for NY theatregoers. Happy Hunting, revived at the Musicals in Mufti series this weekend, proved to be a winning, tuneful romp, and a helluva lot of fun. And now, the... [read more]
BWW Reviews: Happy Birthday: Fizzy Lifting Drinks
BroadwayWorld.com
Duncan Pflaster
March 23, 2013
In 1946, Helen Hayes, tired of playing dramatic and melodramatic roles, asked her friend Anita Loos to write her a fun play. Loos responded with Happy Birthday, which won Hayes a Tony, as well as... [read more]
TACT's Happy Birthday is Keen
Times Square Chronicles
Suzanna Bowling
March 23, 2013
Time to go to Newark, New Jersey, circa 1946 for TACT's (The Actors Company Theatre) revival of Anita Loos' Happy Birthday. Loos, best known for "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" wrote "Happy Birthday" for... [read more]
Happy Birthday to TACT, Rodgers and Hammerstein and Cinderella
Filichia on Friday
Peter Filichia
March 9, 2013
March is coming in like a lion for Rodgers and Hammerstein. When most people think of Dick and Ockie, they recall their 11 musical properties (or at least five of them). Many may not know or... [read more]
"Happy Birthday" is Anita Loos' Fluffy Ode to Love
New York Theatre Wire
Lucy Komisar
March 20, 2013
A charmer and good fun, albeit dated, Anita Loos' 1946 play tracks the lives of the denizens of a bar in Newark, NJ. It centers around the transformation of Addie Bemis (a very charming Mary Bacon... [read more]
First Nighter: Happy "Happy Birthday"
The Huffington Post
David Finkle
March 22, 2013
When First Lady of the American Stage Helen Hayes was looking around for a change-of-pace property in the early 1940s, savvy Anita Loos got wind of the search and came up with Happy Birthday, wherein... [read more]
Alcoholic Comedy 'Happy Birthday' Goes Down Surprisingly Well
Backstage
Erik Haagensen
March 21, 2013
It's always dangerous to do a star vehicle without a star, and not just any star, but the right one, who is usually the luminary for whom said vehicle was crafted. Happily, in its revival of Anita... [read more]
Happy Birthday
The Wall Street Journal
Terry Teachout
March 22, 2013
TACT/The Actors Company Theatre, which mounted flawless Off-Broadway revivals of Brian Friel's "Lovers" and Neil Simon's "Lost in Yonkers" last year, has done it again with "Happy Birthday," a smart... [read more]
Happy Birthday
The New Yorker
March 25, 2013
The Actors Company Theatre specializes in the rediscovery of "neglected" works; while this kind of rummaging through the discards of the canon often reminds audiences of why certain things were... [read more]
'Happy Birthday'
The Epoch Times
Diana Barth
March 21, 2013
This zany romantic comedy by Anita Loos offers many delights. Loos, early in her life, enjoyed a successful career as a screenwriter, arguably the first woman to find her way into that niche... [read more]
Love and Its Discontents
Wall Street Journal
Terry Teachout
September 27, 2012
If life were fair, Brian Friel, the foremost living playwright in the English-speaking world, would have won a Nobel Prize long ago. Instead he labors in comparative obscurity, loved and respected by... [read more]
Lost in Yonkers
Entertainment Weekly
Adam Markovitz
March 22 2012
There's nothing quite like the gentle thrill of reencountering something from the past - a scrapbooked keepsake, an old toy or a favorite song - and finding that time hasn't chipped away at its charm... [read more]
Lost in Yonkers
New York Calling
William Wolf
Neil Simon's serious yet often funny play "Lost in Yonkers," produced on Broadway in 1991, is getting a loving revival by TACT (The Actors Company Theatre), complete with outstanding performances and... [read more]
Rediscovering Neil Simon
The Wall Street Journal
Terry Teachout
March 29 2012
Neil Simon's "Lost in Yonkers," which won a Pulitzer Prize in 1991 and whose original production ran for 780 performances on Broadway, is being revived for the first time in New York - in a 99-seat... [read more]
Lost in Yonkers
Time Out
Diane Snyder
March 23 2012
"The one place in the world you're safe is with your family." That's what a shady uncle tells his two teenage nephews in the darkest play on Neil Simon's shtick-filled resume, Lost in Yonkers, but the... [read more]
Lost in Yonkers
Theatermania
David Finkle
March 23 2012
Two of the undeniably hilarious comedic performances currently on view are being given by Matthew Gumley as 15-and-a-half-year-old Jay and Russell Posner as 13-and-half-year-old Artie in the... [read more]
Lost in Yonkers
The Six O' Clock Sun
Grant Huddish
Run, don't walk, to TACT's production of Lost In Yonkers, now playing at Theater Row 410 West 42nd Street. Neil Simon's play was last seen in NYC in 1991 when it won the Tony, as did three of the... [read more]
What Makes You Free?
Scribicide
Scribicide
March 25 2012
It is 1942 and in Poland, Jews are marching into the gas chambers. But in Yonkers, they are ostensibly dealing with family problems. When Eddie (Dominic Comperatore) finds himself terribly in debt... [read more]
Lost in Yonkers, Revised With the Permission of Neil Simon, Begins NYC Run; Cynthia Harris Stars
Playbill
Kenneth Jones
March 13 2012
Cynthia Harris is the imperious immigrant grandmother in The Actors Company Theatre/TACT revival of Neil Simon's Pulitzer Prize-winning Lost In Yonkers, beginning March 13 at Off-Broadway's Beckett... [read more]
LOST IN YONKERS - FINDS ITSELF A WONDROUS NEW PRODUCTION OFF-B'WAY AT TACT
Oscar E. Moore
Oscar E. Moore
March 23 2012
Waiting around for twenty years for just the right New York revival of his 1991 Pulitzer Prize and multi Tony Award winning play LOST IN YONKERS, Neil Simon can now bask in the glow of this wondrous... [read more]
Lost in Yonkers
nytheatre.com
David Gordon
March 17 2012
I have a hard time considering Neil Simon's Lost in Yonkers a neglected, rarely seen classic. I remember reading it in high school. I've seen ads for countless college, stock and amateur stagings... [read more]
Sharing a Legacy of Loss Among Three Generations
The New York Times
David Rooney
March 25 2012
After experiencing the warmly satisfying revival of "Lost in Yonkers" at the Beckett Theater it seems inconceivable that it has taken two decades for this Pulitzer-and Tony-winning 1991 Neil Simon... [read more]
Lost in Yonkers
Light and Sound
David Barbour
I am very happy to report that the folks at TACT have mastered the art of speaking Neil Simon. This no small achievement, even for a company that has proved itself adept at the diverse works of Alan... [read more]
Lost in Yonkers
Curtain Up
Elyse Sommer
You're not going to like the tyranical, stingy Grandma Kurnitz. Eddie, Jay and Arty's father, leaves them with their unwelcoming grandmother in order to pay off the debt incurred during their recently... [read more]
Lost in Yonkers
DC Theatre Scene
Richard Seff
March 23 2012
I've written about the work of the Actors Company Theatre (TACT) before, and here I am again to report to you on Neil Simon's Lost In Yonkers which is the company's spring entry at the Beckett Theatre... [read more]
Neil Simon's "Lost In Yonkers" finds new life in Off-Broadway revival
NY Daily News
JOE DZIEMIANOWICZ
March 22 2012
In the new production of Neil Simon's 1991 Pulitzer-winning "Lost in Yonkers," clouds loom over the Kurnitz family living room. Those mists are gray, threatening and unmoving, just like the steely... [read more]
Lost in Yonkers
Backstage.com
Erik Haagensen
March 22 2012
It's surprising to learn that "Lost in Yonkers," Neil Simon’s finest play - it won him the Pulitzer Prize and the Tony Award in 1991 - hasn't been seen in New York City since the original production... [read more]
Troubled family, dark humor, in 'Lost in Yonkers'
Jennifer Farrar
March 22 2012
Who's afraid of grandma? Only everyone who's related to her, in Neil Simon's dysfunctional Kurnitz family, as created in his 1991 Pulitzer Prize-winning play, "Lost in Yonkers." Set in 1942, Simon's... [read more]
Lost in Yonkers
Arts and Leisure News
Sometimes we suspect, and sometimes rightly, that our memory has improved a production - that imaginatively we made it what we knew it could have been or should have been - and fearing this, we may... [read more]
Lost in Yonkers
The Epoch Times
Diana Barth
April 9 2012
Neil Simon has sometimes been criticized because his plays, though undeniably funny, are often thought to lack heart. No such accusation can be leveled at his "Lost in Yonkers," now playing in a... [read more]
Getting "Lost in Yonkers" Again
The Broadway Blog
Tom Mizer
March 26 2012
You can't choose your family. The old cliche rang insistently through my mind as I watched Lost in Yonkers, Neil Simon's Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy/drama currently receiving its first New York... [read more]
SIMON'S "LOST" FOUND
Static Multimedia, FILM FESTIVAL TRAVELLER
Kevin Filipski
April 12 2012
Off-Broadway, Neil Simon's 1991 Pulitzer and Tony winner, Lost in Yonkers, is being wonderfully revived by the enterprising theater company TACT, and whatever's lost in the transition from the... [read more]
Well-Bred, and Flailing on the Rocks
The New York Times
DANIEL M. GOLD
November 8, 2011
The playwright A. R. Gurney has proved a steadfast cartographer of shrinking territory: upper-class white Anglo-Saxon Protestantism in decline. In works like "The Dining Room," "The Cocktail Hour" and... [read more]
Review: Children
Time Out New York
Diane Snyder
November 1, 2011
Summer leisure for the well-bred WASPs in A.R. Gurney's Children includes tennis, swimming, and bouts of resentment and denial. It's Fourth of July weekend 1970, and for the first time in five years... [read more]
Gurney's Adult 'Children' Must Grow Up
Associated Press
Jennifer Farrar
October 27, 2011
NEW YORK -- The people referred to in the title of A.R. Gurney's 1974 play, "Children," are all adults in their 30s, although they often revert to childish behavior. Loosely based on a short story by... [read more]
Children
BackStage
Lisa Jo Sagolla
October 27, 2011
"Children" is the kind of show that sends a critic to her thesaurus seeking synonyms for the word "perfect" or new ways to say "couldn't have been better" and "I loved every minute of it." A... [read more]
"Children" - A.R. Gurney Chronicler of WASPS Off Broadway
Examiner
Sandi Durell
October 28, 2011
TACT (The Actors Company Theatre) a resident company currently housed at the Beckett on Theatre Row, has launched the first professional production of "Children" since 1976. All those emotionally... [read more]
Children
Show Business
Andrea M. Meek
October 31, 2011
"What have we done with our lives?" asks one of the characters in A.R Gurney’s Children. "All we’ve done is play games." Here, at a summer home off the coast of New England, a lot of tennis is... [read more]
Theatre in Review: Children
Light and Sound America
David Barbour
October 28, 2011
The characters in Children are worried about erosion, as well they might be. The family's matriarch, standing on the terrace of her Massachusetts beach house, nervously eyes the Atlantic Ocean and... [read more]
Children
The Flip Side Blog
Kevin Filipski
Children, A.R. Gurney's 1974 comic study of New England WASPs, is tougher than other plays like The Cocktail Hour and The Dining Room, whose genteel satire is replaced with more acid. At a summer... [read more]
A CurtainUp Review: Children
CurtainUp
Elyse Sommer
October 25, 2011
This often seen setup of a family reunion brings to light the conflicting past and present customs. While some of the customs the family matriarch known only as Mother (Darrie Lawrence) sees being... [read more]
Children
DC Theatre Scene
Richard Seff
November 1, 2011
In 1974, A.R.Gurney's Children was produced by Lynne Meadow at the Manhattan Theatre Club. It was Gurney's first full length play and it arrived on our shores following a successful London run at the... [read more]
Children (of All Ages)
Women Around Town
Alix Cohen
October 28, 2011
The mostly Wasp-centric, observational plays of 80 year-old A.R. Gurney are like New York pretzel vendors: if you don't see one on the block, there will surely be a cart on the next street or around... [read more]
A Depression-era comedy is revived with affection
Associated Press
JOCELYN NOVECK
March 25, 2011
You could do worse on a cold and dreary Manhattan night -- and there have been lots of those lately -- than warm up with a little horse betting. Which is just what audiences are doing at curtain time... [read more]
Three Men on a Horse
BackStage
Lisa Jo Sagolla
March 24, 2011
A scrumptious screwball comedy by John Cecil Holm and George Abbott, "Three Men on a Horse" is a little slow out of the starting gate. But once it finds its pace, it so thoroughly charms that one is... [read more]
THREE MEN ON A HORSE: On the Nose
Broadway World Reviews
Duncan Pflaster
March 27, 2011
There's no company in New York like TACT (The Actors Company Theatre) for reviving older and old-fashioned plays and breathing new life into them with solid and professional productions. TACT has been... [read more]
An endearing Depression-era comedy
Beacon Pass
Sophie Gandler
March 30, 2011
Mild-mannered, mousy greeting-card writer Erwin has a knack for predicting the outcomes of horse races. Yet he never gambles, because he's content with his suburban home, office job and pretty wife... [read more]
Another Outing for This Gambling Tale? What Are the Odds?
The New York Times
NEIL GENZLINGER
April 3, 2011
In this age of short-attention-span audiences, if you're going to perform an old-fashioned play the old-fashioned way -- that is, with two intermissions -- you'd better have a spark to inject into... [read more]
Three Men on a Horse
Curtain Up
Simon Saltzman
March 23, 2011
The last time I saw this 1935 comedy about a nebbish who knows how to pick a winner was in 1993. The renowned director George Abbott, who co-authored Three Men on a Horse with John Cecil Holm was in... [read more]
'Three Men On A Horse' -- Depression Era Comedy Lives Again
Broadway Bulletin/ Newsvine
HENRY EDWARDS
April 6, 2011
Off-Broadway's TACT/The Actors Company Theatre has added seven performances to the limited run of its production of the Depression-era comedy, "Three Men on a Horse," at the Samuel Beckett... [read more]
Three Men on a Horse
Show Business
Andrea M. Meek
March 23, 2001
In a brilliantly devised opening to TACT's revival of Three Men on a Horse, audience members are given a chance to bet on an exhilarating stick-figure horse race across the stage just before the show... [read more]
Three Men on a Horse
TheatreMania
Chris Kompanek
March 25, 2011
John Cecil Holm and George Abbott's Depression-era comedy, Three Men on a Horse, is now being presented by TACT at Theatre Row. Under the deft direction of Scott Allan Evans, this charming play about... [read more]
The Stage Takes another Look at Horse Racing History. And the Winner Is...
History News Network
Bruce Chadwick
March 21, 2011
At the start of Three Men on a Horse, patrons get a replica 1935 race card and lay imaginary bets on their favorite with track workers dressed as they were that year. Three small horses race across... [read more]
THREE MEN ON A HORSE
William Wolf Entertainment
William Wolf
March 24, 2011
The original 1935 Broadway comedy "Three Men on a Horse" was so successful that it spawned film adaptations, musical adaptations, foreign versions, including French and German ones, and television... [read more]
"Three Men on a Horse" rides again in New York
United Press International
FREDERICK M. WINSHIP
April 1, 2011
NEW YORK, April 1 (UPI) -- "Three Men on a Horse", a Broadway hit in 1935, is receiving a New York revival, its fourth, by The Actors Company Theater with a well-cast production that proves that an... [read more]
Three Men on a Horse is a Perfect Tribute to Days Gone
Times Square Chronicles
SUZANNA BOWLING
March 30, 2011
Theatre is joyous on 42nd Street thanks to George Abbott's "Three Men on a Horse." This uproariously madcap tribute to the 30's and 40's presented by TACT/The Actors Company Theatre is done to... [read more]
Three Men on a Horse
EDGE
Jonathan Leaf
March 10, 2011
The current Three Men On A Horse playing at Theater Row runs out of the money. The show is a revival of a 1930's comedy by George Abbott and John Cecil Holm. It's often said to be a classic farce... [read more]
TACT bets on a revival of this Depression-era comedy about horse racing.
Time Out/ New York
Pamela Newton
March 29, 2011
Before there were sitcoms, there were plays with the same lowbrow comic formula: a far-fetched premise, snappy one-liners, misunderstandings with outrageous consequences, and an impossibly neat happy... [read more]
Absurd Artificial Language in 'The Memorandum'
Associated Press
Jennifer Farrar
November 4, 2010
The real-life absurdities of living under an authoritarian communist regime are well-known to Czech Republic author, one-time revolutionary and politician Vaclav Havel. After spending two decades as... [read more]
The Memorandum
BackStage
Karl Levett
November 4, 2010
It's been more than four decades since the 1968 American premiere of Vaclav Havel's "The Memorandum," when it was part of Joseph Papp's inaugural season at the Public Theater. The play's inspirational... [read more]
Satire with a Lesson
Broadway After Dark
Judd Hollander
November 2010
Playwright Vaclav Havel takes a scathing look at mindless corporate bureaucracy in his biting and satirical 1968 work "The Memorandum," now being give a spirited, if somewhat dated revival by The... [read more]
The Memorandum
Curtain Up
Paulanne Simmons
October 31, 2010
Vaclav Havel may be one of the few men in history to have distinguished himself as both a politician and playwright. So it should come as no surprise that much of his theatrical work has a political... [read more]
Return of Vaclav Havel's The Memorandum
Broadway Bulletin/ Newsvine
Harvey
November 8, 2010
Dedicated to producing “neglected or rarely produced plays of literary merit” that “once again speak directly to modern audiences,” Off-Broadway’s TACT/The Actor’s Company Theatre’s... [read more]
Theatre in Review: The Memorandum
L&S America
David Barbour
November 5, 2010
If humor is the most perishable of genres, satire often has a shelf life of a minute and a half. It's rare to find satire as timeless as The Memorandum, and it's too bad TACT's revival is as spotty as... [read more]
Human action, not human design (Part 1)
The New Criterion
Kevin D. Williamson
December 2010
Maybe it was the pending congressional elections, but in November Theatre Row was the scene of an onslaught of plays that resonated terribly with these troubled times: The York Shakespeare Company... [read more]
Human action, not human design (Part 2)
The New Criterion
Kevin D. Williamson
December 2010
The problem is that Ptydepe is unwieldy – a rational mandate that all words be at least 60 percent dissimilar necessitates that the work for “wombat” had 319 letter – and so almost nobody can... [read more]
'The Memorandum' - And what about 'Ptydepe'?
New York Examiner
Sandi Durell
November 22, 2010
The struggle against alienation and dehumanization becomes patently clear in Vaclav Havel’s “The Memorandum,” a Kafkaesque absurdity of both comedy and tragedy. Originally produced in Prague at... [read more]
Fighting the Alienating Newspeak Gobbledygook
The New York Times
Rachel Saltz
November 5, 2010
Vaclav Havel’s “Memorandum,” which can be seen in the ActorsCompany Theater’s handsome production at the Beckett Theater, comes out of this Communist-era tradition. First produced in Prague in... [read more]
A New Office Speak
Off-Off Online.com
Maura Kelley
November 3, 2010
The Memorandum, written by Vaclav Havel and revived by The Actors Company Theater (TACT) after an almost 40 year Off-Broadway respite, is long overdue. If you are the kind of person that enjoys absurd... [read more]
The Memorandum
Show Business Weekly
Alexander Harrington
November 2010
Václav Havel’s The Memorandumis as thinly disguised a satire of Soviet Bloc Communism as George Orwell’s Animal Farm, but the TACT/The Actors Company Theatre’s excellent revival, directed by... [read more]
The Memorandum
TheatreMania
Andy Propst
November 5, 2010
Vaclav Havel's The Memorandum, now being presented by TACT at the Beckett Theatre, depicts a man caught in a bureaucratic nightmare that's worthy of Kafka and a snare of office politics that brings to... [read more]
The Memorandum. Václav Havel skewers office politics in this dark satire from Communist Czechoslovakia.
Time Out/New York
Garrett Eisler
November 8, 2010
When Václav Havel wrote The Memorandum in 1965 Czechoslovakia, his conceit of an inscrutable language devised by authorities to make office drones’ lives hell was an attack on Eastern Bloc... [read more]
The Memorandum
The Village Voice
Jacob Gallagher-Ross
November 10, 2010
According to TACT, its revival of The Memorandum, an early work by Václav Havel, is the play's first major New York production since 1968 (the same year, lest we forget, the Soviets invaded the... [read more]
The Memorandum
William Wolf Entertainment
William Wolf
November 2010
In keeping with its mission to show rarely produced work, The Actors Company Theatre (TACT) is giving us a crisp, entertaining and thought-provoking production of Czech writer Václav Havel’s “The... [read more]
T.S. Eliot's 'Cocktail Party' is worth attending
Associated Press
Jennifer Farrar
March 18, 2010
NEW YORK - If you've ever known a psychiatrist who thinks he or she is godlike, then T.S. Eliot's 60-year-old play, "The Cocktail Party," would be an absolute tonic for them. In the smart, amusing... [read more]
A Strange and Intoxicating Brew
Broadway After Dark
Judd Hollander
March 18, 2010
Long forgotten plays seeing the light of day after a lapse of several decades usually fall into one of three distinct categories: those that should have never been revived in the first place; those... [read more]
I've Been to a Marvelous Party
Wall Street Journal
Terry Teachout
April 2, 2010
Here's a statistic that will make you jump: The original Broadway production of T.S. Eliot's "The Cocktail Party" was a commercial hit that played for 409 performances. It also won its author a Tony... [read more]
A Lonely Crowd
The New Criterion
Kevin D. Williamson
May, 2010
The disjuncture between the two halves of T.S. Eliot's verse drama The Cocktail Party is so radical and complete that one might very well describe the work as two plays rather than one. There is no... [read more]
The Cocktail Party
Performing Arts Insider
Richmond Shepard
May 22, 2010
T.S. Eliot's THE COCKTAIL PARTY is given a crackling-good presentation by The Actors Company Theatre (TACT) at the Beckett Theatre on Theatre Row. How can this intellectual play, concerning... [read more]
The Cocktail Party
Curtain Up
Elyse Summer
March 17, 2010
T. S. Eliot's The Cocktail Party hasn't been seen on any New York stage for over 40 years. It was never made into a film so chances are that TACT/The Actors CompanyTheatre's revival in its Theater Row... [read more]
Theatre in Review: The Cocktail Party
Light and Sound America
David Barbour
March 18, 2010
The Actors Company Theatre is one of a trinity of Off Broadway organizations that regularly satiates our curiosity about the past, offering first-class productions of yesterday's forgotten hits. The... [read more]
The Cocktail Party
Backstage
David Sheward
March 17, 2010
The Actors Company Theatre is one of several New York troupes - including Transport Group, Keen Company, Mint Theater Company, and Metropolitan Playhouse - serving a vital function: reviving rarely... [read more]
The Late Christopher Bean
Variety
Steven Suskin
November 12, 2009
The late Christopher Bean -- a penniless, tubercular, alcoholic painter -- died 10 years back, leaving behind some unwanted and unappreciated canvases. Which, now that he has been suddenly hailed as... [read more]
The Late Christopher Bean
TheatreMania
David Finkel
November 12, 2009
The Late Christopher Bean, Sidney Howard's 1932 comedy now being presented by TACT at the Beckett Theatre, is admittedly old-fashioned. So what? Under Jenn Thompson's warm and tidy direction, it's... [read more]
NY Review: 'The Late Christopher Bean'
Back Stage
Lisa Jo Sigolla
November 12, 2009
Committed to mounting neglected plays of literary merit, the Actors Company Theatre has just opened its 17th season with "The Late Christopher Bean," a comedic gem from 1932. Penned by Sidney Howard... [read more]
A CurtainUp Review The Late Christopher Bean
Curtain Up
Elyse Sommer
November 12, 2009
The cozy combination living room-dining room that greets you as you take your seat in the Beckett Theater oozes middle class comfort. It practically screams old-fashioned, 3-act play which is exactly... [read more]
Theatre in Review: The Late Christopher Bean (The Actors Company Theatre at Theatre Row)
Light and Sound America
David Barbour
November 12, 2009
If anyone knows of Sidney Howard today, it's because his name is on the screenplay of Gone With the Wind; less remembered is the fact that, for 20 years, he kept Broadway supplied with a steady stream... [read more]
The Late Christopher Bean
NY Theatre.com
Kimberly Wadsworth
November 12, 2009
The Late Christopher Bean is a charming little show. It's the story of a Massachusetts country doctor, Dr. Haggett (James Murtaugh), living somewhere outside Boston with his wife (Cynthia Darlow) and... [read more]
The Late Christopher Bean is a triumph for The Actors Company Theatre
Talk Entertainment
Oscar E. Moore
November 12, 2009
The Actors Company Theatre has unearthed another old chestnut of a play - "The Late Christopher Bean" written by Sidney Howard - based on the French "Prenez Garde a la Peinture" by Rene Fauchois - not... [read more]
The Late Christopher Bean
Edge New York
Jonathan Leaf
November 11, 2009
It’s not too late to see the Actors Company Theater’s current production of The Late Christopher Bean at the Beckett on Theater Row. That’s welcome news, as there are few more fun shows running... [read more]
The Late Christopher Bean
Wolf Entertainment Guide
William Wolf
November 12, 2009
What an enjoyable discovery The Actors Company Theatre (TACT) has made with its revival of Sidney Howard's play "The Late Christopher Bean," which opened in New York in 1932 and hasn’t been... [read more]
The Late Christopher Bean
WOR - Radio
Dr. Joyce Brown
November 12, 2009
THE LATE CHRISTOPHER BEAN is a play that was written by Sidney Howard in 1929, but it seems as fresh as if it were written this year. The story of a country doctor who treats a young artist who... [read more]
The Late Christopher Bean
The New Yorker
November 23, 2009
Sidney Howard’s 1932 comedy, which has been unjustly gathering dust, gets a first-rate outing by the Actors Company Theatre. Dr. Haggett (the terrific James Murtaugh), a country physician living... [read more]
The Late Christopher Bean
Show Business Weekly
Michelle Zigas
November 19, 2009
Written by the Pulitzer Prize-winning Sidney Howard, The Late Christopher Bean has been revived by the Actors Company Theatre for the first time in New York since its 1932 world premiere. The show... [read more]
Peter Filicha's Diary
Theatre Mania
Peter Filicha
November 11, 2009
Only a Kingdom -- But More Than That It happens at least once a month. A friend or – in this case – a friend of my girlfriend says, “Listen, I know someone who’s written a musical and... [read more]
Period Piece, Modern Issues: Dealing With Financial Woes
The New York Times
Ken Jarowoski
November 18, 2009
The treasure hunters at the Actors Company Theater have unearthed another jewel with “The Late Christopher Bean,” a comedy seldom seen in New York since its Broadway premiere in 1932. It’s a... [read more]
Theater Review: 'The Late Christopher Bean'
The Epoch Times
Diana Barth
November 23, 2009
NEW YORK - Presented by the impeccable TACT (The Actors Company Theatre), Sidney Howard's 1930s "The Late Christopher Bean" is set in the family home of Dr. Haggett (James Murtaugh), not far from... [read more]
Bedroom Farce
Variety
Marilyn Stastio
October 16, 2008
Whenever people are desperate for a laugh, Alan Ayckbourn always comes through. So, hats off to the Actors Company Theater for bringing us "Bedroom Farce" in our hour of need. Laugh engine of this... [read more]
4 Marriages in 3 Bedrooms
The New York Times
Neil Genzlinger
October 15, 2008
The production, by the Actors Company Theater, resurrects this droll Alan Ayckbourn comedy from the 1970s to near perfection, thanks to spot-on timing and delicious understatement by everyone... [read more]
Bedroom Farce
Backstage
A.J. Mell
October 15, 2008
Alan Ayckbourn's Bedroom Farce makes a welcome return to the New York stage, looking quite agile after a 30-year absence. A strangely underperformed playwright in the United States, Ayckbourn is a... [read more]
Bedroom Farce
Curtain Up
Elyse Sommer
October 15, 2008
I can't think of someone who better undoes the widely accepted belief that quantity and commercialism tend to weaken quality and that a farce needs at least four slamming doors to make its humor land... [read more]
Bedroom Farce by Alan Ayckbourn
Blogcritics
Ethan Stanislawski
October 14, 2008
Until I saw The Actors Company Theatre?s production of Bedroom Farce, I had never seen a staging of any play by Alan Ayckbourn. Such a statement is probably the reason why TACT decided to stage one of... [read more]
Bedroom Farce: Too Many Beds, Too Little Rest
Broadway World.com
Duncan Pflaster
October 14, 2008
Alan Ayckbourn's comic romp Bedroom Farce hasn't been given a real New York revival since its seven month Broadway run came to an end in 1979. Who better to revive it (and incidentally take on their... [read more]
Bedroom Farce
NYTheatre.com
David Gordon
October 14, 2008
A "bedroom farce" (more commonly known as "sex farce") is characterized by the interplay and sexual trysts among various combinations of characters in highly improbable plots. It is also characterized... [read more]
Bedroom Farce by Alan Ayckbourn
Talk Entertainment
Oscar E. Moore
October 15, 2008
Three bedrooms. Four couples. One kiss. One sleepless night. These are the elements of a very mild mannered BEDROOM FARCE by Alan Ayckbourn ? not seen in New York for thirty years - which has just... [read more]
Bedroom Farce
TheaterMania
David Finkle
October 14, 2008
After writing most of his 72 plays about marriage, it's become shiningly clear how Alan Ayckbourn regards the controversial institution. While Ayckbourn never sees the married state as blissfully... [read more]
Bedroom Farce
Wolf Entertainment Guide
William Wolf
October 14, 2008
There are three bedrooms in Robin West?s smart scenic design for the revival of Alan Ayckbourn?s comedy ?Bedroom Farce? by The Actors Company Theater. The central joke denoting the character... [read more]
Bedroom Farce
Showbusiness Weekly
Sara Hottman
October 16, 2008
In one ridiculous night, an exceptional mess of a self-absorbed man usurps the peace in three bedrooms, all through refrains of ?I?m sorry? to the three-and-a-half couples whose nights he?s ravaging... [read more]
Above the Sheets
Theatre News Online
Sandy Macdonald
October 15, 2008
The Actors Company Theatre ( TACT) devotes itself to resurrecting neglected work. Their sprightly revival of Alan Ayckbourn's 1975 London hit Bedroom Farce -which made a respectable showing on... [read more]
Bedroom Farce - Bloomberg Review
Bloomberg.com
John Simon
October 21, 2008
TACT (The Actors Company Theater) has revived Alan Ayckbourn's devilishly witty ``Bedroom Farce,'' in which, in three bedrooms, four couples of different ages and predicaments synthesize and epitomize... [read more]
Thoughful Hijinks
The Epoch Times
Diana Barth
October 22, 2008
NEW YORK?Somewhere in suburban England, Malcolm (Sean Dougherty) and Kate (Ashley West) are throwing a housewarming party. They and their friends are looking forward to a festive occasion. The only... [read more]
Bed, Laugh and Beyond
Off Off Online
Stephen Morgan-MacKay
October 17, 2008
?In married life, three is company, two is none,? Oscar Wilde?s witty altruism, could have easily derived its inspiration directly from the pages of Alan Ayckbourn?s personal diary (or blog for all... [read more]
IF THERE'S TROUBLE, IT STARTS RIGHT HERE: IN THE BEDROOM
Stage and Cinema
Harvey Perr
October 17, 2008
The Actors Company Theatre (TACT) is back on track with their smart, attractive, dolefully droll revival of one of the great Alan Ayckbourne?s more civilized comedies of angst, Bedroom Farce. In... [read more]
Old Wine in New Bottles
TheaterMania
Peter Filichia
October 20, 2008
Of course, The Actors Company Theatre on Theatre Row has been doing vintage plays for 15 years now. They?re now doing Alan Ayckbourn?s Bedroom Farce, a masterful study in a seldom-if-ever examined... [read more]
Above the Sheets
Theatre News Online
Sandy Macdonald
October 20, 2008
The Actors Company Theatre ( TACT) devotes itself to resurrecting neglected work. Their sprightly revival of Alan Ayckbourn's 1975 London hit Bedroom Farce -which made a respectable showing on... [read more]
Bedroom Farce
Stagestruck NYC
November 6, 2008
The Actors Company Theatre (TACT) is presenting Alan Ayckbourne's aptly named Bedroom Farce at the Beckett Theatre on Theatre Row, West 42nd Street, in a deft portrayal of the relationship of four... [read more]
Bedroom Farce Review
WBAI
David Rothenberg
October 21, 2008
Alan Ayckbourn's BEDROOM FARCE is benefiting from a droll, skillfully acted production, presented by The Actors Company Theatre at the Beckett Theatre an 42nd St. Ayckbourn is one of England's most... [read more]
France, 1942: Detained, Examined, Gone
The New York Times
Neil Genzlinger
March 18, 2009
?Incident at Vichy? isn?t as well known or frequently performed as some of Arthur Miller?s other works, perhaps because of the dauntingly large all-male cast and the lack of a dominant, star-luring... [read more]
WAITING ROOM OF THE DAMNED
New York Post
Frank Scheck
March 19, 2009
TEN scared-looking men sit on two intersecting benches in German-occupied France, nervously waiting to be called into a room by the Nazis who will decide their fates. Such is the premise of Arthur... [read more]
Incident at Vichy
Curtain Up
Elizabeth Ahlfors
March 18, 2009
Nazi-occupied Vichy, 1942. Eight men and a boy are grabbed from the street. They are deposited in a dismal detention room with a foreboding office to one side. Bewildered and frightened, they sit... [read more]
Incident at Vichy
TheatreMania
David Finkle
March 18, 2009
It isn't difficult to understand the initial resistance by audiences and critics to Arthur Miller's 1964 play Incident at Vichy, now being given an excellent revival by The Actors Company Theatre at... [read more]
Incident at Vichy
Time Out New York
Pamela Newton
March 19, 2009
The setup for Arthur Miller's Incident at Vichy (1964) would make a good joke: A prince, a gypsy and a businessman walk into a room.? Unfortunately, the room is a holding cell for Jews rounded up on... [read more]
Exquisite Knowledge of Destruction
The Jewish Daily Forward
Leonard Fleischer
April 2, 2009
"Incident at Vichy" is generally considered one of Arthur Miller’s lesser plays. It was first produced in 1964, in the temporary home, near Washington Square, of New York City’s newly created... [read more]
State of Fear
Off-Off Online.com
William Coyle
March 18, 2009
The Actors Company Theatre (TACT) has a knack for resurrection, unearthing worthy revivals of long-ignored theatrical gems. Last spring, TACT presented Tennessee Williams’ The Eccentricities of a... [read more]
Theatre in Review: Incident at Vichy
Light and Sound
David Barbour
March 17, 2009
Ever since its 1964 debut, Incident at Vichy has been relegated to that shelf titled "Miller, Arthur; minor works of." Having seen the new production by The Actors Company Theatre, I can't think... [read more]
Arthur Miller’s Incident at Vichy - attention must be paid
oscaremoore.com
Oscar E. Moore
March 20, 2009
“All Jews are dogs!” barks the Nazi Major into the ear of the old Jew seated on the bench who is awaiting interrogation and having his identification papers checked along with nine other men who... [read more]
Incident at Vichy
Backstage
Karl Levett
March 16, 2009
It's 1942 in German-occupied France, and 10 men sit in silence in a bleak detention room, waiting. As Joseph Trapanese's music clearly indicates, this waiting has ominous expectations. Thus begins one... [read more]
Incident at Vichy
Theatre Scene.Net
Deirdre Donovan
March 16, 2009
Arthur Miller’s Incident at Vichy gets fresh legs at Theatre Row’s Beckett Theatre. The play was not widely admired when it debuted at Lincoln Center back in 1964, but with The Actors Company... [read more]
Incident at Vichy ****
Total Theatre
Richard Shepard
March 17, 2009
If you want to see a perfectly directed (by Scott Alan Evans), beautifully acted play written by a master who knew how to construct a play in terms of content, dialogue and action better than almost... [read more]
Seen and Heard
Live Design
Robert Cashill
April 3, 2009
Seen Off Broadway: The Holocaust casts its shadow over Arthur Miller’s 1964 play Incident at Vichy, which the Actors Company Theatre/TACT has revived at Theatre Row’s Beckett Theatre. This is the... [read more]
Incident at Vichy
New York Calling: Theatre/ Wolf Entertainment Guide
William Wolf
March 17, 2009
Arthur Miller’s “Incident at Vichy,” first staged in New York in 1964, is getting a suburb and chilling revival by The Actors Company Theatre (TACT). Originally underappreciated, the play speaks... [read more]
Incident at Vichy
NYTheatre.com
Stan Richardson
March 12, 2009
Don't you just hate people who are always complaining? Those folks who just can't let go of the past? Who still talk about how eight and a half years ago, Bush "stole" the election? C'mon, there's no... [read more]
A Truly Arresting "Incident at Vichy"
Broadway and Me
Blogspot
April 1, 2009
The large number of theater companies in New York means that loads of good productions often go overlooked, particularly at a time like this when big Broadway shows are opening almost every night and... [read more]
A Heroine's Inner Flame, Fueled by an Excess of Feeling
The New York Times
Rachel Saltz
May 9, 2008
Written in 1951, "The Eccentricities of a Nightingale" was Tennessee Williams's revision of the more familiar "Summer and Smoke." He preferred "Eccentricities," he wrote in an author's note. "It is... [read more]
The Eccentricities of a Nightingale
The New York Times
Charles Isherwood
May 23, 2008
"Rivals anything I saw this season for complexity, delicacy and lurid truth." To read the entire review cut and paste the complete URL... [read more]
The Eccentricities of a Nightingale
Variety
Mark Blakenship
May 6, 2008
It's time to re-evaluate "The Eccentricities of a Nightingale." When the play debuted on Broadway in 1976 after being tweaked for 25 years, it bore a double burden: It was written by Tennessee... [read more]
The Eccentricities of a Nightingale
The New Yorker
May 26, 2008
Tennessee Williams?s 1951 revision of ?Summer and Smoke? hasn?t been seen in New York for more than thirty years, and this superb revival could leave one wondering why. Alma Winemiller, an unwed... [read more]
The Eccentricities of a Nightingale
TheatreMania
David Finkel
May 6,2008
Alma Winemiller is such a nervous bird that her father sits her down to criticize the compulsive "gestures and facial expressions" she makes singing at Glorious Hill, Mississippi holiday functions. As... [read more]
The Eccentricities of a Nightingale
Show Business Weekly
Andrea M. Meek
May 12, 2008
Like Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire and Laura Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie, the high-strung Alma Winemiller in The Eccentricities of a Nightingale reflects Tennessee Williams?s... [read more]
Eccentricities of a Nightingale
Edge New York, NY
Steve Weinstein
May 10, 2008
Wow, wow and wow. And wow. Many people know "Summer and Smoke" from the movie that starred Geraldine Paige. But what most people don?t know is that that play is a reworking of an earlier work, both... [read more]
Eccentricities of a Nightingale
Theater Scene.net
Diedre Donovan
May 7, 2008
There may not be any second acts in American life, but there may be second chances for failed American plays. The Actors Company Theatre has bravely remounted Tennessee Williams?s Eccentricities of a... [read more]
The Eccentricities of a Nightingale
Curtain Up
Simon Saltzman
May 6, 2008
Where did the fire come from? ? Alma No one has ever been able to answer the question. ? John Tennessee Williams?s extensive and aggressive re-write of Summer and Smoke is something of a... [read more]
The Eccentricities of a Nightingale
NYTheatre.com
David Johnston
May 6, 2008
The Actors Company Theatre presents a revival of Tennessee Williams's The Eccentricities of a Nightingale. This description is from the company: "The Eccentricities of a Nightingale charts the... [read more]
THE ECCENTRICITIES OF A NIGHTINGALE
Wolf Entertainment Guide
William Wolf
May 6, 2008
For those who take theater seriously, ?The Eccentricities of a Nightingale? by Tennessee Williams, his reworking of ?Summer and Smoke,? is a revival of extreme importance. Rarely seen, the play is a... [read more]
Showtime! - Broadway Blog
BroadwayWorld.com
Michael Dale
May 12, 2008
While Broadway audiences are getting a taste of Tennessee Williams' revised text for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Off-Off-Broadway's The Actors Company Theatre (T.A.C.T.) is treating New Yorkers to a rare... [read more]
The Eccentricities of a Nightingale
Back Stage
David A. Rosenberg
May 6,2008
Tennessee Williams was never satisfied. Obsessed with demons in his private and public lives, he revised many of his plays, none more drastically, perhaps, than his 1947 Summer and Smoke. Resurfacing... [read more]
Eccentricities by Tennessee Williams
jbspins.blogspot.com
J.B.
May 6, 2008
Alma Winemiller must be eccentric. She is far too demonstrative in her music. Not that music is an inappropriate pursuit in itself?she just puts too much of herself into it for the tastes of... [read more]
Strange Fascination
Off Off Online
William Coyle
May 6, 2008
The Actors Company Theatre?s (TACT?s) production of The Eccentricities of a Nightingale at the Clurman Theatre at Theatre Row faithfully and utterly brings to life the pathos and deep longing for... [read more]
Murder and Hymns
The New York Times
Anne Midgette
November 13, 2007
Images of metal bars, white on black like Wedgwood patterning, run around the shallow stage where the Actors Company Theater revival of ?The Runner Stumbles? is set. The bars sometimes denote a... [read more]
The Runner Stumbles
Back Stage
Ron Cohen
Nov. 4, 2007
Milan Stitt's intense drama The Runner Stumbles gets an intense revival under the aegis of the estimable Actors Company Theatre. Stitt's play, which was produced on Broadway in 1976 and ran for nearly... [read more]
The Runner Stumbles, But Not The Production
Broadway Bullet
John R DeLamar Jr.
Nov. 13, 2007
It's been more than three decades since the Milan Stitt drama, The Runner Stumbles, has been seen on Broadway, even on a proffesional New York Stage, but thanks to our dear friends at The Actor's... [read more]
The Runner Stumbles
Theater Mania
David Finkel
Nov. 5, 2008
Before there was Doubt, there was a tradition of theater works about priests whose faith is either tested or is already as weak as an oak leaf on a November bough. One of the most esteemed is Milan... [read more]
THE RUNNER STUMBLES
Wolf Entertainment Guide
William Wolf
Nov. 5, 2007
The Actors Company Theatre (TACT) digs back into play history to revive ?The Runner Stumbles,? a drama by Milan Stitt that was done on Broadway in 1976 and also became a film. Did a priest in Michigan... [read more]
Runner Stumbles: How Do You Solve a Problem Like Subpoena?
Broadway World.com
Duncan Pflaster
Nov. 9, 2007
Picture it: Solon, Michigan. 1911. A young nun is found dead, and when rumor gets around that she was living in the rectory with the local priest, he is accused of her murder, and put on trial... [read more]
An English Village Bedeviled by Ideas Out of This World
The New York Times
Neil Genzlinger
May 7, 2007
Now the archaeologists at the Actors Company Theater have unearthed the literary forerunner of Royston Vasey. It?s the town that is the setting for ?The Sea,? a funny-in-that-British-way play by... [read more]
The Sea - Five stars
Time Out - New York
Jeff Lewonczyk
May 3, 2007
Audiences familiar with British playwright Edward Bond?s grim, violent 1965 play Saved (featuring a famous scene in which a baby is stoned to death) may be surprised to discover that The Sea (1973... [read more]
Theatre Reviews - The Sea by Edward Bond
Stage and Cinema.com
Harvey Perr
April 30, 2007
It is a beautiful and wondrous thing to see how artfully the creative crew of ?The Sea? have put together their play on a much more limited budget with more limited resources. While it amounts to the... [read more]
April Leftovers
TheaterMania.com
Peter Filichia
April 30, 2007
I was asked to be a Lucile Lortel Award nominator for the 2007-2008 season, so I?ve been going to many more off-Broadway shows. My term started on April 1, so I want to give you my opinions so far... [read more]
Alighting in the Confines of a Lonely Cuckoo's Nest
The New York Times
by NEIL GENZLINGER
December 8, 2006
David Storey?s ?Home,? a portrait of four fragile people in a home for the mentally disturbed or disabled, is achingly beautiful, especially as staged by the Actors Company Theater at the Samuel... [read more]
Home
nytheatre.com
by Jo Ann Rosen
December 8, 2006
The revival of David Storey's Home, now at the Beckett Theatre, is a double launching for The Actors Company Theatre (TACT): that is, it is TACT'S first season on Theater Row and it is a full... [read more]
HOME (2006 REVIVAL)
Wolfentertainmentguide.com
by William Wolf
December 8, 2006
The Actors Company Theatre (TACT) previously did a reading of ?Home,? but now is presenting it as a full-fledged revival, a welcome step, as the same cast has the opportunity to make David Storey?s... [read more]
HOME - Backstage Review - CRITICS PICK
Backstage
by Karl Levett
December 7, 2006
Two nattily dressed English gentlemen meet in what seems to be a local public park. They are Harry (Larry Keith) and Jack (Simon Jones), and they sit and reminisce, uttering half-finished phrases in a... [read more]
HOME - TheatreMania Review
TheatreMania.com
Dan Bacalzo
December 8, 2006
The simple charms of David Storey's 1970 play Home cannot be denied, and this revival by The Actors' Company Theatre (TACT) is thoroughly enchanting and superbly acted. Home begins with the meeting... [read more]
HOME: Small Talk
BroadwayWorld.com
by Michael Dale
December 9, 2006
To say that nothing really happens in David Storey?s 1970 Tony-nominated play Home, now getting a charming, moving and extremely well-acted mounting from The Actors? Company Theatre (TACT), would be... [read more]
HOME
Variety
By Marilyn Stasio
December 11, 2006
David Storey's "Home" has been in deep storage for 35 years, its revival appeal curbed by the indelible memory of the 1971 Broadway production starring John Gielgud and Ralph Richardson as two duffers... [read more]
HOME Review
Performing Arts Insider
Richmond Shepard
December 28, 2006
The Actors Company Theatre, the finest play-reading group in NY, has just finished a fully-stage rendition of HOME by David Storey. In Act One, it is fascinating how the consummate actors, Larry... [read more]
THE HOT L BALTIMORE
Wolf Entertainment Guide
William Wolf
May 15, 2006
The Actors Company Theatre (TACT) usually digs further back into theater history for its staged readings that rediscover interesting works for reappraisal. Lanford Wilson?s ?The Hot L Baltimore... [read more]
The Hot L Baltimore
New York Calling/Wolf Entertainment
William Wolf
May 7, 2006
The Actors Company Theatre (TACT) usually digs further back into theater history for its staged readings that rediscover interesting works for reappraisal. Lanford Wilson?s ?The Hot L Baltimore... [read more]
Both Your Houses
Curtain Up
Elyse Sommer
March 11, 2006
Mercutio's famous putdown quoted above, was aimed at the feuding families whose children's star crossed love affair fell victim to their squabblings. The houses alluded to in Maxwell Anderson's title... [read more]
Both Your Houses
New York Calling/ Wolf Entertainment
William Wolf
May 7, 2006
Maxwell Anderson?s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama ?Both Your Houses? was produced in 1933, but it could just as well have been written today. The evidence was amply evident in the staged reading by The... [read more]
He And She (In Concert)
BackStage
Harry Forbes
November 21, 2005
Unless you were at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in 1980, when -- for a series of lesser-known American plays -- BAM unearthed Rachel Crothers' feminist He and She (one of the best of that season... [read more]
Watch on the Rhine in Concert
BackStage
Harry Forbes
October, 2005
It's good to be reminded that a vehicle now most remembered as a Bette Davis late-night staple holds its own quite well on stage, thank you, and in this case a stage without the frills of a full... [read more]
Watch on the Rhine
Lively Arts/Performing Arts Insider
Richmond Shepard
October 21, 2005
The best play reading troupe in America, ACTORS COMPANY THEATRE (TACT), has done it again in their marvelous reading of Lillian Hellman's powerful play from 1942 WATCH ON THE RHINE. With a top-notch... [read more]
WATCH ON THE RHINE
New York Calling
William Wolf
October 18, 2005
The Actor?s Company Theatre (TACT) has given many fine reading performances of important plays, but I can?t think of any that moved me more than its presentation (Oct. 15-17, 2005) of Lillian... [read more]
Robot original makes a comeback
New Jersey.Com
Jim Beckerman
Arpil 29, 2005
Robots are everywhere these days: from the cartoon cutups of the movie "Robots" to the droids in the upcoming "Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith" to the little automatic gizmo that vacuums... [read more]
The Robots Are Coming! TACT Presents Staged Concert Revival of Karel Capek's R.U.R. April 30-May 2
Playbill.com
Kenneth Jones
April 25, 2005
TACT (The Actors Company Theatre), known for its stylized concert performances of neglected plays, presents Karel Capek's R.U.R., which gave us the word "robot," April 30-May 2 in... [read more]
Get the Latest Dish on the NYC Theater Scene with John Rowell
Show Business
John Rowell
April 25, 2005
TACTFULLY YOURS: As I have often remarked in this column, we in New York are lucky to have several fine theater companies in our Off-Broadway midst who continue to remember the past, researching and... [read more]
R.U.R.
Wolf Entertainm Guide
William Wolf
May 1, 2005
First staged in 1921, Czech author Karel Capek?s futuristic play ?R.U.R.,? which stands for Rossum?s Universal Robots, offered a prophetic view of a mechanized society in which robots are produced in... [read more]
HOME
Wolf Entertainment Guide
William Wolf
March 15, 2005
Of all The Actors Company Theatre (TACT) readings I have attended, ?Home? is the most moving. David Storey?s play is a difficult one to stage because it is quite ephemeral and delicate with room for... [read more]
Staying Alive in a Haze of Memories
The New York Times
Neil Genzlinger
March 14, 2005
In a sublime script-in-hand staging, the Actors Company Theater is making an excellent case for a full-scale revisiting of "Home," a gently unsettling play by David Storey that was seen on Broadway in... [read more]
Simon Jones Stars in Max Frisch's The Firebugs, Ignited by The Actors Company Theatre Nov. 20-22
Playbill
Kenneth Jones
November 17, 2004
TACT (The Actors Company Theatre), the troupe that stages stylized concert performances of "neglected or rarely produced plays of literary merit," presents The Firebugs by Swiss writer Max Frisch Nov... [read more]
COME ON BABY, LIGHT MY FIREBUG:
Show Business
John Rowell
November 15, 2004
COME ON BABY, LIGHT MY FIREBUG: The always interesting TACT (The Actors Company Theatre) continues to resurrect obscure and fascinating plays, and this month, the group unearths the 1958 comedy, The... [read more]
Voice Choises - The Firebugs
Voice.com
Soloski
November 15, 2004
The Firebugs A literal rendering of the German title of the Max Frisch play would read ?Conventional Man and the Fire Founders,? but the Actors Company Theater, under the direction of Scott Alan... [read more]
THE FIREBUGS
Wolf Entertainment Guide
William Wolf
November 24, 2004
Brave is the company that attempts a reading of Swiss writer Max Frisch?s play ?The Firebugs,? and TACT (The Actors Company Theatre) did just that in its traditional staged reading format (Nov. 20-22... [read more]
Rattigan's Rare WWII Drama, Flare Path, Gets Concert Revival by TACT in NYC Oct. 16-18
Playbill.com
Kenneth Jones
September 30, 2004
Flare Path, Terrence Rattigan's play about World War II British fighter pilots and the women they love, will open the 2004-05 season of TACT ? The Actors Company Theatre.Co-artistic director Simon... [read more]
Flare Path in Concert
Backstage.com
Victor Gluck
October 22, 2004
Presented by the Actors Company Theatre (TACT) at Florence Gould Hall, French Institute/Alliance Fran?ais, 55 E. 59 St., NYC, Oct. 16-18. If you thought the drawing-room drama had no more ability... [read more]
FLARE PATH
Performing Art Insider & Lively Arts
Richmond Shepard
October 22, 2004
Want to have a marvelous theatrical experience? The Actors Company Theatre /TACT) is without a doubt the best play-reading troupe in this town (or any other town that I?ve seen). Their staged... [read more]
FLARE PATH
Wolf Entertainment Guide
William Wolf
October, 25 2004
There were only five chairs on stage plus three musicians in the background on the side. In a matter of moments an illusion was created that we were near an airbase in wartime England with life and... [read more]
The Triangle Factory Fire Project
Katie Riegel
May 10, 2004
In 1911 a fire in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in downtown Manhattan's Asch Building at the juncture of Washington and Greene Streets killed 146 workers--mostly young immigrant women--in the space... [read more]
The Triangle Factory Fire Project Makes for Fresh, Bracing Theater
American Theatre Web
May 15, 2005
On its own, Christopher Piehler?s The Triangle Factory Fire Project would be a potent retelling of the events of March 25, 1911, when a fire at the Triangle Shirt Waist Factory consumed three floors... [read more]
The Triangle Factory Fire Project
Curtain Up.com
May 15, 2004
Combining a great tragedy and a headline making courtroom trial makes for a heady mix for using the theater as a vehicle for dynamic social commentary. Christopher Piehler\'s The Triangle Factory... [read more]
In 2 shows, key players held to account
New York Daily News
Howard Kissell
May 28, 2004
Political reality is certainly a subject our theater should deal with more often ? and more intelligently ? than it does. Examples of the strengths and pitfalls of using it are on view a few doors... [read more]
THE TRIANGLE FACTORY FIRE PROJECT
ELJ All Arts Annex
Kessa Di Santis
May 20, 2004
On March 25, 1911 a rapid blaze at the Triangle Waist Company, a factory near Washington Square Park in Manhattan, led to the deaths of one hundred forty-six workers, most within 25 minutes from when... [read more]
New Play The Triangle Factory Fire Project Opens Off-Broadway May 19
Playbill.com
Robert Simonson
May 19, 2004
The Actors Company Theatre, the Off-Broadway troupe known as TACT, takes a break from its concert-reading format May 19 to officially open a fully-produced company created world premiere, The Triangle... [read more]
An early darkhorse contender for an Obie in 2004-05
New York Theatre Wire
Robert Hicks
June 1, 2004
Playwright Christopher Piehler used personal witness accounts to give firsthand authenticity and heartfelt immediacy to the myriad tragedies in act one of his new dramatization of the 1911 fire that... [read more]
THE TRIANGLE FACTORY FIRE PROJECT
Wolf Entertainment Guide
William Wolf
May 20, 2004
Every time I pass the plaque on the New York University building at Greene Street and Washington Place commemorating the 1911 shirtwaist factory fire, I try to imagine the horror that claimed the... [read more]
DELIVERED WITH FIRE
New York Post
By Donald Lyons
May 20, 2004
On March 25, 1911, fire ripped through the top three floors of the Asch building, at Washington Place and Greene Street. The site was home to a manufacturing concern, the Triangle Shirtwaist... [read more]
GLENN LONEY'S SHOW NOTES - Triangle Factory Fire Project
New York Theatre Wire
Glenn Loney
May 30, 2004
THE TRIANGLE FACTORY FIRE PROJECT [****] Playwright Christopher Piehler?working with the ensemble of the Actors Company Theatre?has recalled for modern audiences a ghastly chapter in the American... [read more]
A History that Strikes Close to Home
Offoffonline.com
by Karen Barrow
May 21, 2004
A good play is a wonderful distraction. A great play tugs at your emotional core. A truly great play does all that and also affects its audience by triggering memories and influencing one?s view of... [read more]
Get the Latest Dish on the NYC Theater Scene with John Rowell
Show Business
John Rowell
January 10, 2004
CAMPBELL?S OR PROGRESSO? Any theater company whose motto includes celebrating "language, the actor and the spoken word" is just fine with me, and The Actors Company Theatre (TACT) does that, and also... [read more]
The Chalk Garden
Show Business
John Rowell
March 12, 2004
? HOW DOES YOUR GARDEN GROW? I?m always thrilled when theater companies make it part of their mission to stage neglected or rarely produced plays, and TACT, The Actors Company Theatre, is one of the... [read more]
"The Chalk Garden in Concert"
Backstage.com
Harry Forbes
March 19, 2004
The wit and exquisite construction of Enid Bagnold's 1955 comedy come across to a remarkable degree in TACT's semi-staged reading. The humor and poignancy are all the more surprising after enduring an... [read more]
Blossom Time: The Chalk Garden Gets Concert Reading by TACT in NYC March 13-15
Playbill
Kenneth Jones
February 20, 2004
TACT (The Actors Company Theatre) presents a concert reading revival of Enid Bagnold's The Chalk Garden for three performances only, March 13-15, at Florence Gould Hall in Manhattan. The troupe, run... [read more]
The Good Soup (La bonne soupe) in Concert
Backstage.com
Victor Gluck
January 28, 2004
Garson Kanin's adaptation of Felicien Marceau's Parisian hit "La bonne soupe" opened on Broadway in 1960 as "The Good Soup" starring Ruth Gordon -- and folded quickly. TACT (The Actors Company... [read more]
THE GOOD SOUP (LA BONNE SOUPE)
Wolf Entertainment Guide
William Wolf
January 27, 2004
TACT (The Actors Company Theatre) has performed another service in introducing its fans to a play (three performances only from Jan. 24-26, 2004) that hasn't been staged in New York since 1960, when... [read more]
Fathers and Sons in Concert
Backstage
Victor Gluck
December 9, 2003
Although Brian Friel's skillful adaptation of Ivan Turgenev's novel "Fathers and Sons" had a successful run at Britain's National Theatre in 1987, it has not had a New York performance until now. TACT... [read more]
The Marriage of Bette and Boo in Concert
Backstage
Karl Levett
October 29, 2003
Christopher Durang has always had a unique theatrical voice. His heady mix of wit, anger, and pathos are probably best illustrated in his play "The Marriage of Bette and Boo." It was given a memorable... [read more]
THE MARRIAGE OF BETTE AND BOO
WOLF ENTERTAINMENT GUIDE
William Wolf
October 21, 2003
The Actor's Company Theatre (TACT) has launched its new season, its 11th, and the initial result, a dramatized reading of Christopher Durang's "The Marriage of Bette and Boo" (Oct. 18,19 and 20, 2003... [read more]
A CurtainUp Review U.S.A.
Curtain Up
Elyse Sommer
May 5, 2003
If you thought the war was lousy, wait until you see the peace --- Colonel Edgecombe. The Actors Company Theatre (TACT) which performs plays either rarely done or largely forgotten in what it... [read more]
U.S.A.
NY Theatre Review
Martin Denton
May 5, 2003
In a time when too much of what's produced in the theatre is a revival of a show either too familiar or too trivial to offer substantial enlightenment, it's a privilege and pleasure to come upon... [read more]
The Potting Shed: A Staged Reading
Back Stage
Victor Gluck
February 7, 2003
Graham Greene's metaphysical detective story, "The Potting Shed," was written as a drawing-room drama, a genre that has ceased to exist. Nevertheless, after a slow start, Scott Alan Evans' staged... [read more]
Greene's The Potting Shed Served Well by TACT
American Theatre Web
January 24, 2003
Seeing plays, well-known or otherwise, in the setting of a rehearsed reading can be a blessing and a curse. One the one hand, a reading will give audiences the opportunity to hear a work performed... [read more]
Productions Featured in Etcetera and New & Noteworthy Pages by Elyse Sommer
Curtain Up
Elyse Sommer
November 23, 2002
The Rivals. Richard Brinsley Sheridan's The Rivals is the 2nd in the TACT (The Actors Company Theatre) 10th Anniversary season at the company's new home at the French Institute Alliance Fran?ais. The... [read more]
THE RIVALS
Wolf Entertainment Guide
William Wolf
November 23, 2002
The Actors Company Theatre (TACT), devoted to readings of rarely produced plays of literary merit, has scored again with an enjoyable reading performance of Richard Brinsley Sheridan's 1775 classic... [read more]
A CurtainUp Newsbriefs
Curtain Up
Elyse Sommer
November 25, 2002
The Rivals. Richard Brinsley Sheridan's The Rivals is the 2nd in the TACT (The Actors Company Theatre) 10th Anniversary season at the company's new home at the French Institute Alliance Fran?ais. The... [read more]
'LONG ISLAND SOUND' SPLASHES WITH BITING COWARD WIT
American Reporter
Lucy Komisar
September 8, 2002
You can be rich and dumb at the same time. NEW YORK -- Noel Coward's recently-discovered comic play is a romp laced with great bons mots (if that is not redundant) and his signature biting... [read more]