He played Brigadier General Ezra Mannon in "Mourning Becomes Electra" and the play was initially performed at the ACT Theatre with Jane Alexander in 2001. The play was staged later in 2001 at the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut with Tighe and Alexander in the cast. Tighe worked with his daughter, Jennifer, in "A Reckoning" at the Magic Theater in San Francisco. Tighe played Matt in "Anna Christie", along with Sam Shepard's "Buried Child", and Yuri Lubymov's production of "Crime And Punishment" on The Arena Stage at the Kreeger Theatre in Washington, D.C.