Alvin Epstein to Star in 'The Tempest' Beginning March 13

Stage vet Alvin Epstein is set to star as Prospero in the Actors' Shakespeare Project's production of William Sheakespeare's The Tempest at the Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center, March 13-April 13. This production will be directed by Patrick Swanson and designed by David R. Gammons.

The cast is rounded out by Marianna Bassham, Jason Bowen, Benjamin Evett, Johnny Lee Davenport, David Gullette, John Kuntz, Antonio Ocampo-Guzman, Mara Sidmore, Richard Snee, and Robert Walsh.

Epstein's other stage credits include King Lear, The Cherry Orchard, Howard Katz, Tuesdays with Morrie, and Waiting for Godot. Also this year, he will star opposite John Turturro and Elaine Stritch in Samuel Beckett's Endgame at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

The Actors' Shakespeare Project believes Shakespeare's words are urgently relevant to our times. Working as an ensemble of resident company members, we bring these words into the voices, bodies, and imaginations of our actors, audiences and neighborhoods. We do this through creative projects, including intimate productions and outreach programs that are informed by the spaces in which they happen. These projects inspire civic dialogue, build relationships between people, strengthen communities, and reveal something about what it means to be human here and now.

The Tempest will rune March 13-April 13 2008. For tickets, schedules and more information log onto: actorsshakespeareproject.org. The Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center is located at 41 Second St in Cambridge.

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