Carey Perloff News

Manoel Felciano, Tony Award-nominated actor and musician, is having the time of his life in the City by the Bay. But then making his Bay Area and Tom Stoppard debut at A.C.T. has been a dream come true. 'To be able to make my Bay Area professional debut at A.C.T. with a Stoppard play is like hitting the jackpot on all three levels: professional, artistic, and personal,' says Felciano, who stars in the West Coast premiere of Stoppard's Rock 'n' Roll at A.C.T. Born and raised in San Francisco before moving to New York City to pursue a career in music, Felciano plays the lead role of Jan, a rock music-obsessed graduate student fighting for freedom of expression in Soviet-dominated Prague. Performances start September 11.

American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) announced Jean Racine's passionate play Phedre as one of its productions for the 2009-10 season in a first-time coproduction with Canada's prestigious Stratford Shakespeare Festival.

American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) launches its 2008-09 Season with Tom Stoppard's critically acclaimed Rock 'n' Roll in a West Coast premiere directed by Artistic Director Carey Perloff, who has had a celebrated artistic partnership with Stoppard for over a decade. A rapturous, decades-spanning tale of Prague's rock revolution, Rock 'n' Roll follows the passions and politics of a Marxist professor in Cambridge and his Rolling Stones-obsessed protege fighting for freedom in Soviet-dominated Czechoslovakia.

The Stratford Shakespeare Festival announces its 2009 season - a playbill reflecting the Festival's commitment to producing the works of William Shakespeare and his contemporaries, along with other classical theatre repertoire and the work of living playwrights.

The Bay Area's award-winning Rough and Tumble presents Len Jenkin's adaptation of Voltaire's sardonically satiric masterpiece Candide.

San Francisco's cutting-edge Cutting Ball Theater continues its 2008 season of critically acclaimed stage-work with Avant GardARAMA! Like Cutting Ball's 2004 edition of Avant GardARAMA!

Jo Schuman Silver, producer of Steve Silver's Beach Blanket Babylon announced last night the three Bay Area high school winners of The Steve Silver Foundation and Beach Blanket Babylon 'Scholarship for the Arts.' The event featured an opening performance from the cast of Beach Blanket Babylon as well as a welcome speech from Mayor Gavin Newsom and former Mayor Willie L. Brown, Jr.

Fifteen young actors from across the Bay Area join musicians from San Francisco's Bird School of Music for the world premiere of the A.C.T. Young Conservatory's 'I'm Still Standing: A Celebration of the Music of Elton John.'

Jo Schuman Silver announced today the selection of nine Bay Area finalists for the Steve Silver Foundation and Beach Blanket Babylon 'Scholarship for the Arts.'

American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) artistic director Carey Perloff announced casting today for A.C.T.'s season finale, Perloff's new production of John Ford's 'Tis Pity She's a Whore.

Two groundbreaking new works directed by leading theater artists will take the stage at American Conservatory Theater's First Look New Plays Festival, running April 11 through April 26 at Zeum Theater. The plays include The Road Weeps, The Well Runs Dry, a deeply poetic new play by Marcus Gardley, and the newest version of Lillian Groag's theatrical adaptation of renowned poet Christopher Logue's War Music, a contemporary retelling of Homer's Iliad. Each play will receive two script-in-hand workshop performances following an intense week of work by the many artists engaged.

American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) artistic director Carey Perloff today announced the final casting and design team for A.C.T.'s 30th anniversary production of Sam Shepard's classic interrogation of the American dream, Curse of the Starving Class

American Conservatory Theater today announced the lineup of the company's 42nd subscription season. Running from September 2008 to July 2009, the season brings new plays, the nation's finest writers, fresh directors, and renowned performers to San Francisco, while presenting a carefully calibrated range of decades, aesthetics, and perspectives, ranging from dark comedy to serious drama, from movement-theater fusion to music-filled celebration.

American Conservatory Theater conservatory director Melissa Smith and Young Conservatory director Craig Slaight announced casting today for the world premiere production of playwright Amy Herzog's The Wendy Play. Directed by A.C.T. associate artist Domenique Lozano, the production features actors from the graduating class of the Master of Fine Arts Program as well as from the Young Conservatory. The Wendy Play plays March 21 through April 5 at Zeum Theater, located at Yerba Buena Gardens (Fourth and Howard streets). Tickets are $15.50-$20.50 and are available by calling A.C.T. Ticket Services at 415.749.2228 or online at www.act-sf.org.

A.C.T.'s 2007-2008 season gala, Illuminate the Night: A Spotlight on Our Shining Stars. At this benefit for A.C.T.'s actor-training programs, two-time Tony Award-winner Christine Ebersole, Billy Stritch, and A.C.T.'s own Master of Fine Arts Program and Young Conservatory students will entertain San Francisco's most prominent community leaders on Sunday, April 6, 2008, at San Francisco's Four Seasons Hotel.

Internationally renowned playwright Sir Tom Stoppard will visit the American Conservatory Theatre (ACT) of San Francisco to take part in a Koret panel discussion on the A.C.T. stage. The one-hour conversation, part of the Koret Visiting Artists Series, takes place Saturday, January 5, 2008, at 10AM.

American Conservatory Theater (ACT) kicks off its 'First Look 'new works series for the 2007-08 season with The Tosca Project, created by ACT Artistic Director Carey Perloff and choreographer Val Caniparoli. The piece, scheduled for a workshop presentation at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Forum October 26-28, will feature the talents of internationally renowned dancers and actors, many of them associated with San Francisco Ballet and ACT.

Wendy C. Goldberg, Artistic Director of the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's National Playwrights Conference announced the actors cast in 2007 NPC projects

New York Musical Theatre Festival concludes its first-ever Spring Concert Series with 'Undercover Showtunes' on Monday, June 18 at 7PM at The Zipper Factory. Manoel Felciano is one of the many talented Broadway and screen stars set to perform.

On May 21st, the National Corporate Theatre Fund hosted its 2007 Chairman's Award Gala at Tavern on the Green