Seattle’s ACT Theatre gives itself a reprieve from oblivion. The theatre had said it needed to raise $1.5 million by this Friday to avoid closing. But “at a meeting yesterday afternoon, the 25-member board elected to pay ACT’s skeleton staff of nine employees and the company’s other essential expenses out of their own pockets for a month, while trying to raise the $1.5 million they say is needed to keep the theater from closing permanently.”