PURSUING PINTER Celebrates Nobel Laureate's Legacy 3/20

American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) announced the schedule for "Pursuing Pinter," an event celebrating the life and work of Harold Pinter in discussion and performance, which will take place on March 20, 2011, following the 2 p.m. performance of A.C.T.'s revival of The Homecoming. The event will begin with a panel discussion, moderated by A.C.T. artistic director and longtime Pinter collaborator Carey Perloff and featuring Austin E. Quigley, author of The Pinter Problem and The Modern Stage and Other Worlds and former dean of Columbia College at Columbia University, and Michael Krasny, host of KQED Radio's Forum program. Following the discussion, selections from Pinter's plays will be performed by theater luminaries including Emmy Award-winning actor David Strathairn (who returns to the Bay Area after appearing as Prospero in The Tempest, the inaugural production in the renovated American Conservatory Theater following the Loma Prieta earthquake), Ken Ruta, Giles Havergal, Marco Barricelli, and members of the A.C.T. core Acting Company. For updates and other information, visit act-sf.org/ homecoming.

A.C.T. presents a revival of Nobel Laureate Harold Pinter's most provocative play, The Homecoming, directed by A.C.T. artistic director and longtime Pinter collaborator Carey Perloff. Award-winning actress René Augesen celebrates her tenth anniversary with the A.C.T. core Acting Company as she takes on the enigmatic central role of Ruth. In The Homecoming, a long-absent son and his attractive wife, Ruth, return to his contentious childhood home in London's East End. Caught in a grueling power struggle, father and sons vie for Ruth's attention and affection with outrageous consequences in a play that changed the face of 20th-century drama. Hailed as "Pinter's masterpiece" by the Los Angeles Times and called "a contemporary classic that packs a wallop" by Newsday, The Homecoming plays March 3-27, 2011, at the American Conservatory Theater (415 Geary Street, San Francisco). Press night is Wednesday, March 9, 2011, at 8 p.m. Tickets (starting at $10) are available by calling the A.C.T. Box Office at 415.749.2228 or at www.act-sf.org.