Announcing Our 2024-25 Season!
On October 6, 2004, a group of twenty actors gathered in Boston’s Old South Meeting House for a ragtag but mighty production of Richard III. That night would be the first ever performance of Actors’ Shakespeare Project, and many of those actors are still members of ASP’s Resident Artist Company today.
As we commemorate this momentous anniversary next season, we’re thrilled to bring you three plays that showcase what Actors’ Shakespeare Project has done best over the past two decades.
Our 2024-2025 Season will feature our first foray to Watertown’s Mosesian Center for the Arts, our ninth show at the Multicultural Arts Center in Cambridge, and our third consecutive year partnering with Hibernian Hall.
With your help, we can continue to bring dynamic, high-quality theatre productions to neighborhoods in and around Boston for the next two decades as well. The best way that you can support our work is by becoming a member.
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Read more about our season lineup, and then join today for some of Boston’s best theatre at the best prices. Thanks — we’ll see you at the theatre!
When it comes to romance, Emma Woodhouse is
always ready to serve, stir, and spill the tea.
by Kate Hamill
Based on the Novel by Jane Austen
Directed by Regine Vital
Nov 14 – Dec 15, 2024
The Multicultural Arts Center in Cambridge
Screwball antics and wedding fever have struck Highbury in this high-octane adaptation of Jane Austen’s beloved romantic comedy!
The precocious Emma Woodhouse has sworn never to wed – and instead is intent on staking her claim as a matchmaker with an incomparable track record. As her machinations upturn the lives of her friends and rivals alike, Emma will need to navigate a minefield of proposals, love triangles, and extravagant balls to play Cupid… and perhaps find that love has been under her nose all along.
With humor, heart, and a whole lot of amorous hijinks, audiences of all ages will swipe right on this Regency comedy of errors.
In Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning epic,
the haunting melodies of the past will ignite a family conflict.
Directed by Christopher V. Edwards
In Partnership with Hibernian Hall
Jan 23 – Feb 16, 2025
Hibernian Hall
Actors’ Shakespeare Project is thrilled to continue and deepen our dedication to August Wilson’s American Century Cycle with one of his most celebrated titles: The Piano Lesson. This passionate and riveting family drama returns to Pittsburgh’s Hill District in the aftermath of The Great Depression.
Tensions are crackling under the floorboards of Doaker Charles’ household when his fast-talking nephew Boy Willie blows in from Mississippi with a scheme to set their descendants up for generations. The plan: sell the family’s ornate antique piano carved by an ancestor and use it to buy the land where his family had been enslaved. But half of the piano also belongs to Berniece, who refuses to let her brother pawn off the heirloom. As the siblings dig in their heels, they will search deeper into their lineage and uncover shocking revelations that will change them both forever.
Winner of the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and a 1990 Tony Award Nominee for Best Play, August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson is an explosive and incisive inquiry into the struggle between what we owe to our past and how we build our future.
Mischief and magic can certainly be dreamy, just don’t make an ass of yourself…
by William Shakespeare
Directed by Maurice Emmanuel Parent
April 11 – May 4, 2025
The Mosesian Center for the Arts
Delve – if you dare – into a forbidden forest on the outskirts of Athens. Can you escape your father’s tyrannical command? Will you find your secret lover? Could you finally land the leading role? Or might you discover something… darker?
Join the Bard’s most colorful cast of characters as they flit, frolic, and stumble their way through the trees, aided by moonlight and magic. Elliot Norton Award-winning director Maurice Emmanuel Parent’s invigorating new take on A Midsummer Night’s Dream will explore the beauty and romance, but also the sinister underbelly, of one of Shakespeare’s most celebrated classics.
Whether you seek to guffaw at the mechanicals, tangle with the love quadrangle, or conjure in the fairy court – this production will enchant long-time Shakespeare lovers and newcomers alike.