Actors’ Shakespeare Project

Theater Review: Actors’ Shakespeare Project’s Dream of a Midsummer Night

May 24, 2017
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Mortals would be foolish to miss the ASP’s version of Shakespeare’s Dream.

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Theater Review: ASP Conjures Up A Congenial “Tempest”

December 14, 2016
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All in all, Allyn Burrows has assembled a solidly entertaining production of a perennial Shakespearean favorite for the winter season.

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Theater Review: Actors’ Shakespeare Project’s Extraordinarily Meta-“Hamlet”

October 18, 2016
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In this innovative production, Hamlet comes off as Shakespeare’s most successful genre mash-up of tragedy and comedy.

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Theater Review: Actors’ Shakespeare Project Serves Up a Genial “School for Scandal”

April 23, 2016
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The School for Scandal hasn’t dated a jot: put Snake, Mrs. Candour, and Mrs. Sneerwell on Facebook and watch civilizations totter.

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Theater Review: “The Winter’s Tale” — A Problem Play, Solved

December 24, 2015
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The ASP’s superb production of The Winter’s Tale provides a unusually deft fusion of tragedy and comedy.

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Fuse Theater Review: ASP’s Compelling “Othello” — Taking a Different Tack

October 1, 2015
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ASP director Bridgette Kathleen O’Leary chooses a nuanced approach to Othello that hews closely to the text.

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Theater Review: Shakespeare’s “Game of Thrones” — Staged With Gusto

May 28, 2015
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Rarely are Boston’s stages graced with a Shakespeare production that reaches this high a level of accomplishment.

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Theater Review: ASP’s Powerful “God’s Ear” — The Poetics of Grief

April 3, 2015
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Actors’ Shakespeare Project’s superb production of God’s Ear honors this beautiful text.

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Theater Review: “Measure for Measure” – A Problem Play for Shakespeare’s Time — and Ours

January 16, 2015
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Shakespeare may have written Measure for Measure as a dystopian satire of what it would be like if the Puritans were ever to take over England.

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Theater Review: This “Comedy of Errors” is an Exhilarating Circus of Desperation

October 9, 2014
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The intriguing notion of a down-and-out clown troupe struggling with a classic text propels this superb production.

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