Watertown-based Actors’ Shakespeare Project received 12 nominations for the 2025 Boston Theater Critics Association Awards. See the announcement from ASP below.
As we reach the tail end of our 2024-25 Season, it’s validating to feel the love from critics. While we don’t create theatre for the awards, we have to admit … they sure don’t hurt.
That’s why we’re so grateful to the Boston Theatre Critics’ Association and the Elliot Norton Award Committee for all our accolades for our recent productions!
Here are all twelve nominations that ASP productions garnered this cycle:
Romeo and Juliet
Outstanding Play
Outstanding Lighting Design – Deb Sullivan
Outstanding Sound Design – Jesse Hinson
August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson
Outstanding Play
Outstanding Director – Christopher V. Edwards
Outstanding Lead Performance – Omar Robinson
Outstanding Featured Performance – Anthony T. Goss
Outstanding Featured Performance – Jade Guerra
Outstanding Featured Performance – “ranney”
Outstanding Scenic Design – Jon Savage
Outstanding Lighting Design – Isaak Olson
Outstanding Ensemble
And thank you to everyone who made these amazing productions possible — from the actors, to the designers, to the technicians, to the box office team, to the audience members who have been with us for over twenty years — we mean it when we say: we could not do it without you.
Congratulations to all our fellow nominees — click the link below to see a full list of nominees. be sure to join us on June 2 at Huntington Theatre for the Elliot Norton Awards! We’ll see you there.
Don’t Miss ASP’s Next Outstanding Production!
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
by William Shakespeare
Directed by Maurice Emmanuel Parent
April 11 – May 4
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 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.
CONTENT ADVISORY: This production contains adult situations, implied drug use, sexual innuendo, suggestive costumes, and a whole ton of crazy fun fairy magic. In other words, it’s what you should expect from A Midsummer Night’s Dream. We recommend that parents consider if this production is appropriate for children under 13.RUN TIME: One hour and forty minutes, with no intermission.