Union Arts Center

Seattle’s ACT Contemporary Theatre and Seattle Shakespeare Company are proud to announce their joint season, showcasing five works beginning this unique moment in their company’s history: a new beginning. Featuring a beloved classic told through a modern lens, and intimate and touching Seattle premiere, new explorations of two Shakespeare favorites, and the unique journey of a visionary artist, this season promises to engage, excite, and exhilarate the Seattle community.

“Empowerment. Transformation. Becoming. These themes run through our first season as a combined organization, both onstage and off,” said Interim Producing Artistic Director Elisabeth Farwell-Moreland. “As we step into our future together as a new company, Seattle audiences will also see two theatres that they have loved for so long are still here, even as we become one.”

Managing Director John Bradshaw adds: “For me, the most important thing we can do in our first season is to invite everyone in to see that Shakespeare, which we can only really ever interpret through our contemporary experience, and contemporary works, which reflect our history as they open doors into the future, combine perfectly in the timeless arc of our need to gather around the fire and tell stories to make sense of our world.”