October 8 – 24, 2010
November by David Mamet
Directed by Bobby Miller

“Ferociously original . . . and crisply performed, November rollicks from one politically incorrect punch line to the next.” – San Francisco Chronicle

“The big, explosive laughter that starts early in David Mamet’s November is of a kind I haven’t heard in decades.” – The Village Voice

“Broadway comedy is generally a testament to Twain’s maxim that honesty is the best of all the lost arts. On the boulevard, laughter is meant to distract, not galvanize, to enchant, not disenchant. Into this weak hand, David Mamet has dealt an ace.” —John Lahr, The New Yorker

November 11 – 21, 2010
Rock ‘n Roll by Tom Stoppard
Directed by Artistic Director Milt Zoth
A select performance of the Performing Arts Series at the Missouri History Museum.
All performances at the Des Lee Auditorium, Missouri History Museum, Forest Park.

Rock ‘n’ Roll touches the heart while stimulating the mind. An intellectually challenging, intensely theatrical piece of work that is destined to be talked about wherever playgoers gather. I wouldn’t have missed it for the world.”–The Wall Street Journal

TRIUMPHANT. ROCK ‘N’ ROLL is arguably STOPPARD’S FINEST PLAY. He is a MAGICIAN, and this is a passionately acted, decades-spanning tale of love, revolution and music. Stoppard treats the characters of ROCK ‘N’ ROLL with a deep affection I’ve never encountered from him before…” –The New York Times

December 3 – 19, 2010
The Sunshine Boys by Neil Simon
Directed by Artistic Director Milt Zoth
Starring St. Louis favorites Joneal Joplin and Whit Reichert

Al and Willie were top-billed vaudevillians for over forty years. Now they aren’t speaking. When CBS requests them for a History of Comedy retrospective, a grudging reunion brings the two back together, with a flood of memories, miseries and laughs.

“It’s ham on wry...Simon’s one liners are as exquisitely apt as ever.”-New York Post “Delicious and oddly affecting.” -The New York Times

“Another hit for Simon in a shrewdly balanced, splendid and rather touching slice of the show biz life.” -New York Daily News

February 11 – 27, 2011
Closer by Patrick Marber
Directed by Wayne Salomon

Winner of the 1998 Olivier Award for Best Play and the 1999 New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Foreign Play.“Closeris a sad, savvy, often funny play that casts a steely,unblinking gaze at the world of relationships and lets you come to your own conclusions… Closer does not merely hold your attention; it burrows into you.” —NY Magazine

“In its cutting contemporary picture of sexual desire and emotional failure, CLOSER is a brilliantly unusual virtual reality that rings true. The best play on Broadway.” —NY Observer

June 3 – 19, 2011
Neil Labute One Act Festival including a World Premier written expressly for The St. Louis Actors' Studio


“LaBute’s . . . cruel wit and chronicles of immoral moralizers have made him, arguably, the most legitimately provocative and polarizing playwright at work today.” —David Amsden, New York

“A tough-minded writer.” —Michael Kuchwara, The Washington Post

“There is no playwright on the planet these days who is writing better than Neil LaBute . . .a master.” —John Lahr, The New Yorker

“A playwright [with] an unparalleled ear for dialogue.” —Jacque Le Sourd, The Journal News