Theater Company

American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) is a large non-profit theater company in San Francisco, California, that offers both classical and contemporary theater productions. It was founded in Pittsburgh in 1965 by the theatre and opera director William Ball. In response to an invitation from San Francisco philanthropists and officials, Ball relocated the company to San Francisco and astonished the theatre world by presenting twenty-seven fully staged productions in rotating repertory, in two...

The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) is a British theatre company. It is located primarily at Stratford-upon-Avon, with bases also in London, and Newcastle and is one of the two most prominent publicly-subsidised funded theatre companies in the United Kingdom, alongside London's Royal National Theatre. The RSC's history dates back to Wednesday, 23 April 1879 when the newly completed Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon staged its first production, Much Ado About Nothing, whose...

The Lord Chamberlain's Men was the playing company that William Shakespeare worked for as actor and playwright for most of his career. Formed at the end of a period of flux in the theatrical world of London, it had become, by 1603, one of the two leading companies of the city and was subsequently patronized by James I. It was founded during the reign of Elizabeth I of England in 1594, under the patron of Henry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon, the then Lord Chamberlain, who was in charge of court...

Yale Repertory Theatre at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut was founded by Robert Brustein, dean of the Yale School of Drama in 1966, with the goal of facilitating a meaningful collaboration between theatre professionals and talented students. In the process it has become one of the first distinguished regional theatres. As head of "the Rep" from 1966 to 1979, Brustein brought professional actors to Yale each year to form a repertory company, and nurtured notable new authors including...

Signature Theatre is a regional theatre company based in Arlington, Virginia. in 1990, Signature serves as a home for both emerging talents and established composer and librettist who are developing new works for the musical theatre. To date, the company has staged twenty-one world premiere productions, has received fifty Helen Hayes Award and 209 nominations , and has been honored by the Jonathan Larson Performing Arts Foundation. Cameron Mackintosh, Terrence McNally, John Kander, and Fred...

The National Black Theatre was a theatre company run by a small but dedicated group of Aboriginal people based in the Sydney suburb of Redfern. The original concept for the theatre grew out of political struggles, especially the land rights demonstrations which at the time were being organised by the Black Moratorium Committee. The centre held workshops in modern dancing, tribal dancing, writing for theatre, karate and photography, and provided a venue for new Aboriginal drama. It also ran...