American Conservatory Theater presents: Sweat

A.C.T. kicks off the 2018–19 season with the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama that had Broadway critics and audiences on their feet. In Reading, Pennsylvania—the blue-collar heart of America’s steel industry—a tight-knit group of factory workers has gathered in the local bar for generations to share laughs, hopes, and cold beers. But as the country heads into a new millennium, recession looms, and a union lock-out turns assembly line into picket line, one event will send shockwaves through these lifelong friends, pitting them against each other in the struggle to survive.