Bill Barclay News

Shakespeare & Company Artistic Director Tony Simotes proudly announces the benefit performance of Broadway in the Berkshires Monday, August 15th at 6:00pm, Founders' Theatre, 70 Kemble Street , Lenox , MA . Proceeds will go to Shakespeare & Company's internationally-acclaimed Education and Training Programs. Producer and Company member, Deborah Grausman (actor and founder of Berkshire Musical Theater Workshop) has assembled an all-star cast and first-rate creative team for this spectacular, not to be missed, one-night event. Broadway's Chip Zien (Into the Woods-the original Baker, Les Miserables, The Country Girl, People in The Picture, Falsettos, Grand Hotel, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, The Boys from Syracuse, etc.) will host. Director Sam Scalamoni (Disney's Beauty and the Beast, Lestat) and Music Director Paul Staroba (A Little Night Music, Next to Normal, Grey Gardens) will head up the creative team.

Catalyst Collaborative@MIT, a science theater collaboration between MIT and Underground Railway Theater, presents Hugh Whitemore's BREAKING THE CODE, an elegant, deeply moving portrait of mathematician Alan Turning, played by Allyn Burrows and directed by Adam Zahler. The press performance is April 10, 2011 at 2PM.

Actors' Shakespeare Project, in collaboration with The Modern Theatre at Suffolk University, is producing a reading series in early April prior to staging Antony and Cleopatra in the space later in the month. The reading series includes Thomas Middleton's Women Beware Women, directed by ASP company member Sarah Newhouse, and The Last Will by Robert Brustein - a 2011 National Medal of Arts recipient - directed by Daniela Varon.

Actors' Shakespeare Project, in collaboration with The Modern Theatre at Suffolk University, is producing a reading series in early April prior to staging Antony and Cleopatra in the space later in the month. The reading series includes Thomas Middleton's Women Beware Women, directed by ASP company member Sarah Newhouse, and The Last Will by Robert Brustein - a 2011 National Medal of Arts recipient - directed by Daniela Varon.

Catalyst Collaborative@MIT, a science theater collaboration between MIT and Underground Railway Theater, presents Hugh Whitemore's BREAKING THE CODE, an elegant, deeply moving portrait of mathematician Alan Turning, played by Allyn Burrows and directed by Adam Zahler. The press performance is April 10, 2011 at 2PM.

Playwright John Kuntz challenges you to connect the dots in his new one-act play, the second of three in Actors' Shakespeare Project's Winter Festival at The Storefront in Davis Square.

Playwright John Kuntz challenges you to connect the dots in his new one-act play, the second of three in Actors' Shakespeare Project's Winter Festival at The Storefront in Davis Square.

Actors' Shakespeare Project (A.S.P.) completes its sixth season with the Boston premiere of the rarely produced TIMON OF ATHENS, directed by A.S.P.'s Resident Acting Company member Bill Barclay. Previews begin on May 19, 20 and 21, opening night is May 22, and the production will run through June 13 at Midway Studios, 1 Channel Center Street, in Fort Point Channel.

Actors' Shakespeare Project (A.S.P.) completes its sixth season with the Boston premiere of the rarely produced TIMON OF ATHENS, directed by A.S.P.'s Resident Acting Company member Bill Barclay. Previews begin on May 19, 20 and 21, opening night is May 22, and the production will run through June 13 at Midway Studios, 1 Channel Center Street, in Fort Point Channel.

A staged reading of the new musical THE WATER DREAM, with music and lyrics by Shawn Cody will be presented st Shelter Studios on May 16 and 17 at 8pm.

A staged reading of the new musical THE WATER DREAM, with music and lyrics by Shawn Cody will be presented st Shelter Studios on May 16 and 17 at 8pm.

A staged reading of the new musical THE WATER DREAM, with music and lyrics by Shawn Cody will be presented st Shelter Studios on May 16 and 17 at 8pm.

Actors' Shakespeare Project (A.S.P.) completes its sixth season with the Boston premiere of the rarely produced TIMON OF ATHENS, directed by A.S.P.'s Resident Acting Company member Bill Barclay. Previews begin on May 19, 20 and 21, opening night is May 22, and the production will run through June 13 at Midway Studios, 1 Channel Center Street, in Fort Point Channel.

Catalyst Collaborative@MIT, Underground Railway Theater's science theater initiative with MIT, presents the World Premiere of From Orchids To Octopi: An Evolutionary Love Story by award-winning playwright Melinda Lopez and commissioned by the National Institutes of Health in order to celebrate the 150th Anniversary of 'On the Origin of Species'. Surprises erupt as a muralist's work is derailed by hallucinations, pregnancy, and dinosaurs in this witty take on how we understand - or do not - the theory of evolution.

Award-winning theatre company Orfeo Group is braving new theatrical waters once again with its upcoming production of The Island of Slaves February 11th-March 6th 2010.

After undergoing a national search for a new Artistic Director, Actors' Shakespeare Project announced today the choice of Allyn Burrows for the position. Burrows, who has held the position of Acting Artistic Director for the past five months, will assume the permanent role of Artistic Director immediately. Cynthia Good, a longtime board member and Chair of the Search Committee, expresses A.S.P.'s delight at the choice of Burrows, saying, 'Allyn embodies the aesthetic and working vision of A.S.P. He comes to us understanding the vibrancy of the language of Shakespeare and the collaborative nature of our work with the company and the community. He will help us move into the next phase of our future.'

Calling all poets, astronomers, physicists, actors, musicians and philosophers! Award-winning theatre company Orfeo Group is once again hosting Bill Barclay's not-to-be-missed lecture on Tuesday evening, March 2nd at 7:30pm. MUSE ON FIRE, Barclay's unique 90 minute talk, will take place on the set of Orfeo Group's currently running production of THE ISLAND OF SLAVES, for which Barclay also created the sound design, at the Plaza Theatre at the Boston Center for the Arts. Singers from the Tanglewood Festival Chorus will join Barclay and Orfeo Group actors to tackle questions such as: Why do you love the music that you love? Why is there no known culture that lacks music? Is music a universal language? Does ‘The Music of the Spheres' actually exist? From acoustics to astronomy, Kepler to Cleopatra, Bill Barclay will use the science and philosophy of ancient beliefs in planetary harmony to bring together musics from around the globe. Learn how Shakespeare and the Elizabethan view of the cosmos have inspired the long-lasting view of music as the perfect metaphor for the order of the Universe - and how modern science from cosmology to string theory reveals to us its deepest resonances.

Calling all poets, astronomers, physicists, actors, musicians and philosophers! Award-winning theatre company Orfeo Group is once again hosting Bill Barclay's not-to-be-missed lecture on Tuesday evening, March 2nd at 7:30pm. MUSE ON FIRE, Barclay's unique 90 minute talk, will take place on the set of Orfeo Group's currently running production of THE ISLAND OF SLAVES, for which Barclay also created the sound design, at the Plaza Theatre at the Boston Center for the Arts. Singers from the Tanglewood Festival Chorus will join Barclay and Orfeo Group actors to tackle questions such as: Why do you love the music that you love? Why is there no known culture that lacks music? Is music a universal language? Does ‘The Music of the Spheres' actually exist? From acoustics to astronomy, Kepler to Cleopatra, Bill Barclay will use the science and philosophy of ancient beliefs in planetary harmony to bring together musics from around the globe. Learn how Shakespeare and the Elizabethan view of the cosmos have inspired the long-lasting view of music as the perfect metaphor for the order of the Universe - and how modern science from cosmology to string theory reveals to us its deepest resonances.

Award-winning theatre company Orfeo Group is braving new theatrical waters once again with its upcoming production of The Island of Slaves February 11th-March 6th 2010.

Award-winning theatre company Orfeo Group is braving new theatrical waters once again with its upcoming production of The Island of Slaves February 11th-March 6th 2010.