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ACT Theatre is currently presenting the Seattle premiere of Joanna Murray-Smith's hilarious new play, "The Female of the Species". And while the show loses its way a bit in its message, it still remains a wonderfully funny farce with a superb ensemble.

ACT's 2010 Mainstage season continues with a savagely funny new comedy, The Female of the Species by Australian playwright Joanna Murray-Smith, June 18-July 18, 2010. This Seattle premiere is loosely based on a real-life incident when feminist icon, author, and professor Germaine Greer was attacked and held hostage in her home in the British countryside by a college co-ed obsessed with the famous writer.

ACT - A Contemporary Theatre splashes into summer with the continuation of its SOIL at ACT window displays, the irreverent satire The Female of the Species by Joanna Murray-Smith, then shifts to edge-of-your-seat intrigue with the Seattle premiere of Yankee Tavern by acclaimed playwright Steven Dietz.

ACT's 2010 Mainstage season continues with a savagely funny new comedy, The Female of the Species by Australian playwright Joanna Murray-Smith, June 18-July 18, 2010. This Seattle premiere is loosely based on a real-life incident when feminist icon, author, and professor Germaine Greer was attacked and held hostage in her home in the British countryside by a college co-ed obsessed with the famous writer.

ACT's 2010 Mainstage season continues with a savagely funny new comedy, The Female of the Species by Australian playwright Joanna Murray-Smith, June 18-July 18, 2010. This Seattle premiere is loosely based on a real-life incident when feminist icon, author, and professor Germaine Greer was attacked and held hostage in her home in the British countryside by a college co-ed obsessed with the famous writer.

ACT - A Contemporary Theatre breaks into summer with the continuation of Horton Foote's The Trip to Bountiful and the SOIL at ACT art installations, and welcomes the Seattle premiere of the hilarious The Female of the Species by Joanna Murray-Smith.

The 5th Avenue?s enormously popular Spotlight Night series, a free event that?s recently begun to attract record crowds, continues this Sunday with a special three-part program, featuring: profiles of two 20th century composer superstars; live appearances from the stars of Joseph and White Christmas and a roundtable discussion with five of the Theatre?s most critically-lauded directors about the talent, planning and temperament it takes to guide a professional musical from first reading to opening night.

Seattle's newest professional theatre, New Century Theatre Company (NCTC) is serious in their commitment to produce fearless, honest, relevant plays that stir the imagination. Their second production, Orange Flower Water, presented at ACT in association with the Central Heating Lab, runs June 24- July 20, 2009 -and it's not for the meek.

New Century Theatre Company (NCTC), Seattle's newest professional theater, is gearing up to once again blow the lid off the Seattle theatre scene with the follow-up to their wildly successful debut production of Elmer Rice's The Adding Machine.

Seattle's newest professional theatre, New Century Theatre Company (NCTC) is serious in their commitment to produce fearless, honest, relevant plays that stir the imagination. Their second production, Orange Flower Water, presented at ACT in association with the Central Heating Lab, runs June 24- July 20, 2009 -and it's not for the meek.

New Century Theatre Company (NCTC), Seattle's newest professional theater, is gearing up to once again blow the lid off the Seattle theatre scene with the follow-up to their wildly successful debut production of Elmer Rice's The Adding Machine.

Passage Theatre, Trenton's premiere professional theater company, will wrap up its month-long Solo Flights Festival with three performances of Bust, the hilarious and brutally frank one-woman show, written and performed by former Daily Show correspondent Lauren Weedman. Directed by Allison Narver, Bust runs Thursday, Friday and Saturday, March 26 through March 28 at 8pmat the Mill Hill Playhouse, 205 East Front Street (at the corner of Montgomery Street) in historic downtown Trenton.

Cross the River of Forgetting on a one-way cruise to the Underworld in ACT - A Contemporary Theatre's production of Eurydice by Sarah Ruhl, a fantastic, highly original contemporary retelling of a classic story from one of the most distinct theatrical voices of a new generation of writers.

Cross the River of Forgetting on a one-way cruise to the Underworld in ACT - A Contemporary Theatre's production of Eurydice by Sarah Ruhl, a fantastic, highly original contemporary retelling of a classic story from one of the most distinct theatrical voices of a new generation of writers.

ACT-A Contemporary Theatre announces a stellar line-up of local talent performing in the remaining three shows of its 2008 season.

ACT Artistic Director Kurt Beattie announces six Mainstage plays for ACT - A Contemporary Theatre's 2008 Season, to start March, 14 2008. ACT will utilize both the Allen Theatre, an arena theatre with seating in-the-round, and the thrust-style Falls Theatre during the 2008 season.

Leave it to a former 'Daily Show With Jon Stewart' correspondent to twist a situation, which on face value could be predisposed to sheer melancholy, into a wry satirical commentary on the poorly operated Los Angeles penal system...