Just a year ago, Seattle’s ACT Theatre was “fighting for its life after a severe financial meltdown threatened to end the company’s nearly 40-year tenure as one of Seattle’s major professional theaters. Given the relative suddenness of ACT’s fiscal emergency and its need to raise $1.5 million fast to keep its Union Street operation going, survival was no sure thing. But along with restraint and realism, there’s the breezy scent of hope circulating through ACT’s staff offices and rehearsal halls.”