The Acting Company

Founded in 1972 by legendary producer/director/actor John Houseman and current Producing Director Margot Harley with members of the first graduating class of Juilliard's Drama Division, The Acting Company has performed 141 productions for over 3 million people in 48 states and ten foreign countries. The Company has given a generation of actors the opportunity to master their craft. Alumni members include Kevin Kline, Rainn Wilson, Patti LuPone, David Schramm, Jesse L. Martin, David Ogden Stiers, Frances Conroy, Jeffrey Wright, Harriet Harris, Hamish Linklater and Keith David.
Our education programs — Learning Through Theater Artistic Residencies, Student Matinees, Workshops, Master Classes, Primary Shakespeare and Shakespeare for Teachers — reach students in disadvantaged schools where achievement levels are considerably below average. Response to these programs show renewed interest in learning and improved grades as well as communication and social skills.
Promoting theater and literacy by bringing a touring repertory of classical productions and exceptional new works, talented young actors and teaching artists into communities across America — particularly those where live performance and theater arts education is limited or non-existent —The Acting Company performs each year in over 40 cities to audiences of 70,000 and reaches more than 30,000 students with its arts education programs. Our work:
- Builds a discerning national audience for the theater by playing exceptional productions on tour nationwide for diverse audiences.
- Educates middle and high school students in under-served and disadvantaged communities, which have little or no access to the arts and have been hardest hit by cuts in arts education.
- Develops the best young American actors by giving them an opportunity to practice their craft in a repertory of classic plays and new works.

Productions (9)

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NYC: Midtown W

A re-writing of the classic action-packed tale of justice and intrigue.

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NYC: Midtown W

A new production of Shakespeare's classic, set in a tumultuous city in the American South.

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NYC: Midtown E

Kathleen Chalfant stars as Emily Dickinson’s posthumous editor Mabel Loomis Todd in Pulitzer Prize finalist…

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74 Reviews
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NYC: Midtown W

The Acting Company presents this adaptation of Richard Wright's classic novel about the struggles of a black…

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45 Reviews
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NYC: Midtown W

The Acting Company presents Shakespeare's dark work about a devout novice who faces impossible moral choices…

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45 Reviews
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NYC: Brooklyn

Tony nominee Maria Aitken ('The 39 Steps') leads alumni of The Acting Company and ensemble members of…

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NYC: Midtown W

The Acting Company brings back this play dramatizing Malcolm X’s life and death.

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NYC: Midtown W

New Victory Theater presents The Acting Company's mounting of Shakespeare's classic tragedy, a…

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NYC: Midtown E

59 E 59 presents six world premiere plays based on Tennessee Williams' short stories.

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