ACT is supported in part by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency, through its regional arts funding partnership, Pennsylvania Partners in the Arts (PPA). State government funding to the arts depends upon an annual appropriation by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and support from the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency. PPA is administered in this region by the Pennsylvania Rural Arts Alliance. |
2007-2008 Season
AUDITION DATES
Sunday, July 29 @ 7pm Monday, July 30 @ 7pm ACT Rehearsal Hall PERFORMANCE DATES Thursday, September 20 @ 8pm Friday, September 21 @ 8pm Saturday, September 22 @ 8pm Sunday, September 23 @ 2pm
WitBy Margaret Edson
The winner of the 1999 Pullitzer Prize for Drama, Wit is about a renowned professor of English who has spent years teaching the brilliant and difficult metaphysical sonnets of John Donne when she is diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer. During the course of her illness and her stint as a prize patient in an experimental chemotherapy program at a major teaching hospital, she comes to reassess her life and work with a profundity and huumor that are transformative for her and the audience NOTE: Contains some mature subject matter and brief nudity
|