ACT Single Tickets On Sale August 6

Single tickets for all of ACT's 2006-07 subscription and non-subscription Geary Theater and Zeum Theater productions will be available to the public beginning on August 6 at noon. Tickets, which range in price from $12 to $80, may be purchased through ACT Ticket Services, 405 Geary Street, 415-749-2228, or online at www.act-sf.org.  Groups of 15 or more are eligible for group-rate discounts by calling 415-439-2473.

ACT's 40th anniversary season opens on September 14 with Tom Stoppard's Travesties, a hilarious romp through some of the most interesting intellectual and philosophical debates of our time, directed by ACT artistic director Carey Perloff.

The season continues with Lillian Hellman's scintillating southern melodrama The Little Foxes; Carey Perloff and Paul Walsh's vibrant adaptation of Dickens's holiday classic A Christmas Carol; W. Somerset Maugham's sly send up of marriage The Circle; Paul Walsh's world premiere adaptation of Ibsen's complex study of one of the most compelling women in dramatic literature, Hedda Gabler; Philip Kan Gotanda's world premiere epic tracing what happened to San Francisco's Japantown in the wake of World War II, After the War; the West Coast premiere of David Harrower's riveting and uncompromising portrait of a man confronted by a young woman from his past, Blackbird; and Constance Congdon's world premiere adaptation of Moliere's classic farce The Imaginary Invalid, featuring one of the company's founding actors, Rene Auberjonois.

ACT's 40th anniversary season also features a full slate of offerings from ACT's series of new works for the theater, First Look, the ACT Master of Fine Arts Program, and ACT's Young Conservatory program at ACT's second stage space, Zeum Theater. These offerings include the West Coast premiere of Carey Perloff's Luminescence Dating (a special coproduction with San Francisco's the Magic Theatre), the West Coast premiere of Giles Havergal's solo show Death in Venice (based on the Thomas Mann novel and copresented by Theatre Rhinoceros), and works from Charles Busch, Christopher Durang, Horton Foote, John Irving, William Shakespeare, and more.

More information on all of ACT's productions may be found at www.act-sf.org.