The award-winning African-American Shakespeare Company (AASC) inspires to highlight artist of color’s dynamic cultural vibrancy within classical productions.
For over twenty-five years our organization has produced over 85 productions, provided free student matinees to 152 schools and 20,683 students; reached over 146,000 patrons through our mainstage productions and our arts education program. All with the goal to bring the classics to a diverse community in a method that would appeal to their aesthetic.
African-American Shakespeare Company has produced very unique and distinctive works which has appealed to a minority audience when it comes to the classics:
* Hip-hop version of Macbeth
* Twelfth Night set in San Francisco's Jazz corridor
* The Importance of Being Earnest set in the Harlem Renaissance
Voted the Best Live Theatre in San Francisco from SF Magazine in 2018; and The Paine Knickerbocker Award in 2014 for Outstanding Achievement for a Theater Company by the San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle.
The award-winning African-American Shakespeare Company (AASC) inspires to highlight artist of color’s dynamic cultural vibrancy within classical productions.
For over twenty-five years our organization has produced over 85 productions, provided free student matinees to 152 schools and 20,683 students; reached over 146,000 patrons through our mainstage productions and our arts education program. All with the goal to bring the classics to a diverse community in a method that would appeal to their aesthetic.
African-American Shakespeare Company has produced very unique and distinctive works which has appealed to a minority audience when it comes to the classics:
* Hip-hop version of Macbeth
* Twelfth Night set in San Francisco's Jazz corridor
* The Importance of Being Earnest set in the Harlem Renaissance
Voted the Best Live Theatre in San Francisco from SF Magazine in 2018; and The Paine Knickerbocker Award in 2014 for Outstanding Achievement for a…