Announcing Our 2026-27 Season!
“Rest assured, you will be horrified… one way or another…”
“Okay, new kid, this is what you need to know. There’s always a heroine.”
“There is a special providence in the fall of a sparrow.”
“I know people change… but I know that they can slip back too.”
Flipping the script on the classics.
In a recent team brainstorm on how to best describe what Actors’ Shakespeare Project does best, this phrase distilled it perfectly. We flip the script on the classics, and that’s exactly what our upcoming season lineup celebrates.
Sometimes, that means mounting a campy pastiche of an old standard — examining and mining the tropes of the genre, like in Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors, coming to the Mosesian just in time for Halloween.
Sometimes, that means a loving homage to the canon of one of the greats, withThe Complete Works of Jane Austen, Abridged at the Multicultural Arts Center for the holiday season.
Sometimes, that means launching a daring rendition of a beloved classic, where we’ll be kicking off 2027 back in Watertown with one of the greatest Shakespeare titles of all: Hamlet.
And sometimes, that means championing the place of a modern classic within the canon, like we have done with our foray into the American Century Cycle of August Wilson, and will continue to do so at Hibernian Hall with Jitney in April.
In a world where it feels like our communities feel more divided everyday, this work is more vital than ever. The theatre is a place where we can come to connect, to empathize, to feel, to learn, and sometimes most importantly – to laugh.
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This show bites. It also sucks.
by Gordon Greenberg and Steve Rosen
by Christopher V. Edwards
October 9 – November 1, 2026
The Mosesian Center for the Arts in Watertown
Join Jonathan Harker, London’s most naive real estate agent, as he clashes with some of the most iconic characters in horror literature: Van Helsing, Renfield, Lucy, and of course, Count Dracula—a hunky, self-obsessed, pansexual, fitness-nut sex icon that would put Edward Cullen to shame. You know, exactly like Bram Stoker wrote.
Described as a mash-up of Mel Brooks and Monty Python with just a dash of Rocky Horror, this witty comedy will have you holding your sides in the aisles… conveniently leaving your neck unprotected…
2,769 pages of literary perfection,
all in 80 minutes of hysterical mishaps.
by Jessica Bedford, Kathryn MacMillan, Charlotte Northeast and Meghan Winch
Directed by Regine Vital
December 4-27, 2026
The Multicultural Arts Center in Cambridge
Pride and Prejudice. Sense and Sensibility. Mansfield Park. Northanger Abbey. Emma. Persuasion. With so many classics in the Austen canon, it can be hard to pick just one off the shelf. But now… you don’t have to choose.
In just eighty minutes, a trio of enthusiastic — if often misguided — Austen lovers will steer you through a whirlwind of Jane’s finest heroines, villains, love interests, and socialites. Director Regine Vital (Emma) returns to remind audiences that it is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want… of a good laugh.
The story you remember from high school.
The monologues you know by heart.
A Danish prince you’re ready to meet for the first time.
by William Shakespeare
Directed by David R. Gammons
January 29 – February 21, 2027
The Mosesian Center for the Arts in Watertown
Actors’ Shakespeare Project returns for the third time to one of the greatest works in the history of the English language: Hamlet. The Bard’s famous saga of revenge, identity, and responsibility will be brought to life both intimately and spectacularly on the mainstage at the Mosesian.
Helmed by visionary director David R. Gammons (Edward II, Titus Andronicus, Medea), this production won’t just have you questioning to be or not to be, but everything you thought you knew about the Danish prince himself.
Get behind the wheel with the play that started the Cycle.
Directed by Christopher V. Edwards
In Partnership with Hibernian Hall
April 9 – May 9, 2027
Hibernian Hall, Roxbury
Long before he became known as “The American Shakespeare,” 34-year-old August Wilson wrote a play called Jitney, which would make its premiere in a small basement theatre. Little did he know that this play would kick off the next three decades of his career and one of the greatest undertakings of modern theatre: The American Century Cycle, spanning ten decades with nine Tony nominations, two Pulitzer Prizes, and an impact that will continue to live long after Wilson himself.
Jim Becker’s jitney company is in trouble. Since licensed taxis won’t visit Pittsburgh’s Hill District, he and his vibrant cohort of drivers serve the neighborhood – spending their free moments at the station to gossip, joke around, and settle old scores. But just as the city threatens to shut down the station, Jim receives a surprise visitor on his doorstep – his estranged son Clarence, having just completed a twenty-year prison sentence.
With his classic wit and sharp dialogue, Wilson’s first entry in the Cycle sows the seeds for his ten-play exploration of community, family, and legacy in Black America.