The following announcement was provided by the Actors’ Shakespeare Project:
Actors’ Shakespeare Project closes out their blockbuster 2024-25 Season with their first-ever performance at their new home in Watertown, The Dorothy and Charles Mosesian Center for the Arts. From April 11 through May 4, ASP will present their latest production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, directed by Elliot Norton Award-winning director and ASP Resident Artist Maurice Emmanuel Parent.
Join the Bard’s colorful cast of characters as they flit, frolic, and stumble their way through the woods, aided by moonlight and magic. Inspired by the club culture of late ‘90s and early ‘00s New York City, Maurice Emmanuel Parent’s invigorating new take on this classic play flips the romantic entanglement of A Midsummer Night’s Dream on its head and brings Shakespeare’s most popular comedy into vivid technicolor. 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.
“Moving to the Mosesian this past summer has given Actors’ Shakespeare Project the room to stretch our legs and grow,” said ASP Artistic Director Christopher V. Edwards. “It’s fitting to have such a cherished Shakespeare title like A Midsummer Night’s Dream start this new era in Watertown, and directed with an incredibly fresh and provocative vision by Maurice Parent – who played Puck in ASP’s first ever production of Midsummer 15 years ago.”
A Midsummer Night’s Dream features ASP Resident Artists Doug Lockwood and Bobbie Steinbach as Bottom and Quince. The ensemble includes Thomika Marie Bridwell, Michael Broadhurst, Eliza Fichter, Dan Garcia, Mia Giatrelis, De’Lon Grant, Kody Grassett, Alan Kuang, Remani Lizana, Deb Martin, and Evan Taylor.
The design team will feature Ben Lieberson (scenic), Seth Bodie (costumes), Brian Lilienthal (lighting), and Mackenzie Adamick (sound). Lisette van den Boogaard is Production Stage Manager, and Andrea McAdam is Assistant Stage Manager.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream will run for four weeks, from April 11 – May 4, 2025 at The Dorothy and Charles Mosesian Center for the Arts (321 Arsenal St, Watertown, MA 02472). Tickets are $64-$74, with limited seating starting at $20. Student tickets are $25, available for any patron ages 25 and under. For more information, visit www.ActorsShakespeareProject.org.
ABOUT ACTORS’ SHAKESPEARE PROJECT
Actors’ Shakespeare Project is an award-winning professional theater company with a Resident Artist Company and extensive education, youth and community programs. ASP works and performs in found spaces, schools, and theaters in Boston neighborhoods. We present and explore the robust language, resonant stories, and deeply human characters in Shakespeare’s plays and in other language-based contemporary playwrights. Our work is focused on intimacy, storytelling, language, relationships, voice, risk and artistry within and throughout the Boston area. For more information visit www.ActorsShakespeareProject.org.
OUR MISSION STATEMENT
Actors’ Shakespeare Project deploys the creative energy of theatre artists and the power of language and stories to create shared experiences for our community. Our artistic productions and education programs challenge and interrogate long-held expectations about Shakespeare and classic work; build bridges between diverse viewpoints; and empower people to more deeply empathize with each other.
ABOUT MOSESIAN CENTER FOR THE ARTS
The Dorothy and Charles Mosesian Center for the Arts is a performing and visual arts venue on the Charles River in Watertown, Massachusetts. The 30,000 square foot facility, located in an historic 1894 manufacturing shop on a former U.S. Army arsenal, houses a 339-seat main stage theater, a flexible black box theater, exhibition galleries, art classrooms, and a rehearsal studio. Mosesian Arts is located six miles from downtown Boston, borders Brighton and the Charles, and is easily accessible from surrounding suburbs and MetroWest.
Programming includes professional and community theater and musical performances, comedy, gallery exhibitions, literary and art discussions, and performing and visual arts classes and workshops for all ages. Watertown Children’s Theatre, Mosesian Arts’ performing arts education program, provides exceptional classes and performances for youth and families. The venue also hosts celebrated and cutting-edge performing arts companies from throughout the Greater Boston region and New England.
THE MOSESIAN’S MISSION STATEMENT
The Mosesian Center for the Arts enriches the lives of diverse audiences and participants by providing exceptional experiences in theater, visual, and literary art.