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We have a robust and exciting year planned for you.
First off is Dr Ride’s American Beach House by Liza Birkenmeier. Oct 6-22, 2023, Directed by our Associate Artistic Director Annamaria Pileggi.
We are proud to present this play by STLAS friend and Actor/Playwright Liza Birkenmeier. Liza last performed on our stage as Una in BLACKBIRD. She has gone on to become a successful playwright in NYC. Dr Ride’s American Beach House is an intimate snapshot of queer anti-heroines. On the eve of Dr. Sally Ride’s historic space flight, four women with passionate opinions and no opportunities sit on a sweltering St. Louis rooftop, watching life pass them by.
In December, we are presenting A Limited Engagement! Two Weeks only. Barrymore, By William Luce Directed by Erin Kelley. December 1-10, 2023.
Saint Louis Stalwart Actor John Contini returns to our stage to reprise the role in which Christopher Plummer won a Tony for his portrayal of John Barrymore. Each act begins with a stunning entrance onto a stage that the legendary actor has rented to prepare for a comeback performance of Richard III. Barrymore jokes with the audience, spars with an offstage prompter, reminisces about better times, and does delicious imitations of his siblings Lionel and Ethel.
We welcome in the new year with Copenhagen by Michael Frayn, February 9-25, 2024 Directed by Wayne Salomon, Winner of three Tony® Awards .
In 1941, German physicist Werner Heisenberg went to Copenhagen to see his Danish counterpart, Niels Bohr. Together they had revolutionized atomic science in the 1920s, but now they were on opposite sides of a world war..
Next Spring brings The Whale by Samuel D. Hunter, April 5-21, 2024. Directed by Associate Artistic Director Annamaria Pileggi
Now an Academy Award® Winning film, Artistic Director William Roth Stars as an obese recluse, hiding away from the world and slowly eating himself to death, as he is given one last chance at redemption
JULY 2024 marks the return of our month-long LaBute New Theater Festival.
Neil will delight us with his own new story as we present the winning submissions from emerging high school and professional playwrights.
