Among his goals was “to restore to the creative artist himself the right of leadership in shaping and fulfilling his own potential.”ĪCT debuts in residence at Pittsburgh Playhouse.Īfter tensions with Pittsburgh Playhouse forced it to go nomadic, ACT alights in Stanford just as the Actor’s Workshop, San Francisco’s one theater dedicated to artistically daring work, is going under. The Ford Foundation helps pave the way for the regional theater movement by creating a granting program dedicated to supporting theater around the country.īill Ball writes “Prospectus for the American Conservatory Theater,” inspired in part by the way he saw artists such as Elia Kazan dismissed by the board of directors at Lincoln Center. The Geary Theater is built in the Beaux-Arts style of architecture the playhouse was then called the Columbia.
Photo by Ganslen Studios courtesy San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library. 17 Susan Gilbert/The Chronicle Show More Show Less 5 of7 Joy Carlin, in a production of The Time of Your Life, with the American Conservatory Theatre Photo dated Handout photo taken by Hank Kranzler Show More Show Less 6 of7 CHRONICLE 02/13/94 // ACT ARTISTIC DIRECTOR CAREY PERLOFF BRANT WARD Show More Show Less 7 of7 A.C.T.�s founding artistic director, William Ball (left), and Mortimer Fleishhacker, one of the San Francisco civic leaders who secured A.C.T.�s residency at the Geary Theater in 1967, put up the sign announcing A.C.T.�s new home. Show More Show Less 3 of7 Joy Carlin, in a production of The Tavern, with the American Conservatory Theatre Photo dated Handout photo taken by William Ganslen Show More Show Less 4 of7 William Ball, General Director of of the American Conservatory Theatre Photo dated Photo ran, P. Ludi Claire and Paul Shenar in A.C.T's controversial production of Edward Albee's "Tiny Alice." 26 Show More Show Less 2 of7 ACT08_PH10.jpg 1 of7 The Geary Theater circa 1910 Handout Photo ran, Sunday Datebook p.
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