Bought and Paid For—Is ACT's Seven Ways to Get There the New Model for Arts Patronage?

Theater - The Stranger: Last weekend, first-time playwright Dwayne Clark sat in ACT's biggest room—the 434-seat theater in the round upstairs—to watch the world premiere of Seven Ways to Get There, a two-act play about how his life was changed by group therapy. The experience, he said, was "phenomenal"—a sold-out house with CEOs and professional football players in attendance, hundreds of people at the pre- and post-show parties, and a flood of messages the next morning from men thanking Clark for writing a play that inspired the most intimate conversations they'd had with their wives in decades.