James Andreassi is the founder and artistic director of the Elm Shakespeare Company, which means he spends his summers in Edgerton Park. But Jim (whom I’ve known since his college days at Tufts University in the late 1970s) works steadily throughout the year as an actor, director and theater instructor.
From April 27 through May 21, you’ll find him not directing or producing but actually acting Shakespeare again. He’s got the male title role in Antony & Cleopatra at Suffolk University’s Modern Theatre, 523-525 Washington St., Boston. For info and tickets, try http://www.actorsshakespeareproject.org or (867) 811-4111.
The production’s directed by Adrianne Krstansky and co-stars Paula Plum as Cleopatra. Loyal Elm Shakes followers will be aware of another connection between Jim’s outdoor Shakespeare company and this indoor one—Allyn Burrows, who served ESC for several summers as everyone from Hamlet in Hamlet to Miss Flora Van Huysen in The Matchmaker, is the artistic director of Actors’ Shakespeare Co., the producers of Antony and Cleopatra.