The Studio Players Announces 2023-2024 Season 11

Scott Lilly, CEO and Producing Artistic Director of The Studio Players, has announced their 2023-2024 season 11.

This season there's a lot to love, with friendship and togetherness, new relationships, Award winning Tracy Lett's with "sprinkles", fact checking, a classic play from 1955, and some suspicions and doubt. The Studio Players always brings fast-paced comedies and thought provoking drama. Plays that make you think.

The Studio Players kicks off Season 11 this summer with The Cemetery Club, a funny, sweet-tempered, moving romantic comedy exploring real friendship. Next Superior Donuts by Tracy Letts takes place in a run down donut shop in Chicago's Uptown and the dynamics between the less than motivated owner and his newest employee Franco, featuring Karl Chery. Then on to "just the facts" in The Lifespan of a Fact, a comedy that tests what's real information vs embellished information. TSP takes you back to simpler times with the classic play, Bus Stop. filled with charm and sentimental characters. This classic will warm the hearts of patrons looking to revisit a simpler, more innocent time. Rounding up the season with Doubt a Parable. Human and social issues.

2023-2024 Season 11 - and 2 last productions of Season 10

The Cemetery Club

August 4 - August 20
by Ivan Mencell
directed by Anna Segreto
A funny, sweet-tempered, moving romantic comedy about three Jewish widows who meet once a month for tea before going to visit their husbands' graves. The Broadway production was so popular that it was made into a film starring Ellen Burstyn, Dianne Ladd, and Olympia Dukakis.

Superior Donuts

October 27-November 12
by Tracy Letts
directed by Scott Lilly
The play focuses on the relationship between despondent Arthur Przybyszewski, a former 1960s radical who owns a rundown donut shop in Chicago's Uptown, and Franco, his energetic but troubled young assistant, who wants to update the establishment with lively music and healthy menu options. Dialogue scenes are separated by soliloquies in which Arthur discusses his past and reminisces about the city as it was in his younger years.

The Lifespan of a Fact

January 19-February 4, 2024
by Jeremy Kareden, David Murrell, Gordon Farrell
directed by Kevin Hendricks
The play becomes a cautionary tale about the ways self-involved people can make a controversy more about their egos than the principles they articulate. Based on the true story of D'Agata's essay What Happens There, The Lifespan of a Fact follows Fingal, who has a small job: to fact-check articles for one of the best magazines in the country. His boss has given him a big assignment: to apply his skill to a groundbreaking piece by legendary author D'Agata. But now Fingal has a huge problem: D'Agata made up a lot of his article. What starts professional quickly becomes profane.

Bus Stop

March 8-March 24, 2024
by William Inge
In the middle of a howling snowstorm, a bus out of Kansas City pulls up at a cheerful roadside diner. All roads are blocked, and four or five weary travelers are going to have to hole up until morning. Cherie, a nightclub chanteuse in a sparkling gown and a seedy fur-trimmed jacket, is the passenger with most to worry about. She's been pursued, made love to and finally kidnapped by a twenty-one-year-old cowboy with a ranch of his own and the romantic methods of an unusually headstrong bull. The belligerent cowhand is right behind her, ready to sling her over his shoulder and carry her, alive and kicking, all the way to Montana. Even as she's ducking out from under his clumsy but confident embraces, and screeching at him fiercely to shut him up, she pauses to furrow her forehead and muse, "Somehow deep inside of me I got a funny feeling I'm gonna end up in Montana ..." As a counterpoint to the main romance, the proprietor of the cafe and the bus driver at last find time to develop a friendship of their own; a middle-age scholar comes to terms with himself; and a young girl who works in the cafe also gets her first taste of romance.

Doubt a Parable

May 3 - May 19, 2024
by John Patrick Shanley
directed by Anna Segreto
Recipient of The Tony Award for Best Play and Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama
In this brilliant and powerful drama, Sister Aloysius, a Bronx school principal, takes matters into her own hands when she suspects the young Father Flynn of improper relations with one of the male students.

There are still 2 more productions that will be running at The Studio Players prior to the beginning of Season 11.

Opening in few a weeks! March 10th and running through March 26, 2023

Saving Kitty

a comedy by Marisa Smith
directed by Brett Marston
Starring Hollis Galman, McKenna Cloud, Aseem Upadhyah, and Dave Mancini. The battle lines are drawn and it's all-out war when beautiful, fifty-something Kate Hartley, a wealthy, liberal, Manhattan atheist, launches a diabolical campaign to break up the engagement of her daughter Kitty to hunky Evangelical Christian Paul. Kate, divinely dizzy, supremely charming and highly intelligent, uses all her wiles to scuttle the relationship, alternating between saboteur and seductress. Show dates: March 10, 11, 16, 17, 18, 23, 24, 25 at 7:30 p.m. March 12, 19, 26 at 3 p.m.

Murder at the Howard Johnson's

May 19- June 4, 2023
by Ron Clark and Sam Bobrick
directed by Paula Keenan
Is all fair in love? Even murder? That's the question posed by this light and funny suspense comedy about a love triangle in a Howard Johnson Motor Inn. The play presents a love triangle involving a woman, her lover, and her husband in three scenes. In the first scene, the wife and her lover plot to murder the husband. In the second scene, the wife and her husband are plotting to murder the lover. The third scene has the husband and the lover plotting to murder the wife, but this attempt, like the others, fails. Show dates: May 19, 20, 25, 26, 27, June 2, 3 at 7:30 p.m. May 21, 28, June 4 at 3 p.m

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