The playbill program for The Acting Company presents Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors, Friday, Feb. 28 at 8 p.m., and August Wilson’s Two Trains Running, Saturday, March 1 at 8 p.m., in Diana Wortham Theatre at the Wortham Center for the Performing Arts.
The Acting Company
The Acting Company brings contemporary classics to Diana Wortham Theatre stage
The year is 1968 — the height of the civil rights movement — and the buzz of change is in the air. In a small Pittsburgh diner, where the scent of coffee lingers and the weight of uncertainty is heavy, a group of regulars gathers to hope, dream and confront a world that refuses to […]
2024-2025 Student Series Brochure
The Kirk & Lucy BorlandSTUDENT SERIESin memory of son Patrick Beighley The Wortham Center’s popular Student Series features high quality, curriculum-related performances by professional, nationally touring companies. Serving thousands of students, teachers and families each year, the Student Series stretches minds, works imaginations and deepens learning.
An epic journey, reimagined: ODYSSEY
Hundreds of characters. Four actors. One epic journey home. On October 20 at 8 p.m., New York’s The Acting Company casts a 3,000-year-old epic poem in new, contemporary context. This fresh adaptation of Homer’s The Odyssey by director Lisa Peterson is set in a present-day relocation center, where four young women fleeing conflict in Middle […]
