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The Tempest Richard III
William Shakespeare

Directed by Jason Alan Carvell

Performances in Repertory
October 23 – November 8

The Bosakowski Theater
354 West 45th Street NYC
American Studio Theater, a non-profit company in its sixth year of producing classic and contemporary theater, opens its fall 2003 season with The Tempest and Richard III by William Shakespeare at the Phil Bosakowski Theater, 354 West 45th Street. The shows follow a successful offering of Strindberg’s A Dream Play at the Henry Street Settlement in the summer.

The Tempest opens Thursday, October 23rd and runs on the evenings of the 30th, & November 5th & 7th at 8pm. Matinee performances are October 25th, November 1st & November 8th at 3pm, & November 2nd at 7pm.

Richard III opens Friday, October 24th & runs the evenings of the 25th, 29th & 31st and November 1st 6th and 8th at 8pm, and October 26th at 7pm. Tickets are $15 for adults and $10 for students, seniors and low income. Information and reservations at (212) 462-3159 or log on to www.astny.org.

Born of the American wing of the Moscow Art Theater School, the company has produced a series of innovative productions including Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure, Othello, and Troilus & Cressida, new plays by Miro Gavran and Jeremy Menekseoglu, Aristophanes’ Lysistrata, staged readings of Walt Whitman’s poetry in Lower East Side coffee houses, and Shakespeare’s sonnets in upstate New York.

The system of acting developed by the actor/director Konstantin Stanislavsky guides the company’s classical work, using the techniques of psychological realism combined with his ground-breaking work on psycho-physical action. Company members, most of whom carry roles in both The Tempest and Richard III, have trained at such institutions as Carnegie Mellon School of Drama, NYU, RADA & LAMDA.

Jason Alan Carvell directs The Tempest and Richard III. He was trained at the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama and the Moscow Arts Theater School and has appeared on stage at The Guthrie Theater, the Barbican Centre, London, The New York Public Theater, The New Victory Theater and LaMama ETC. The International Herald Tribune has called him “an incisive and dangerously intelligent artist who jackhammers to the often ignored depths of the role” for his performance as Klioshe in Gorky’s Lower Depths at the Moscow Arts Theater.