SARASOTA — The FSU/Asolo Conservatory for Actor Training announced its 2024-2025 season this week. The lineup features "a hilarious and bitter-sweet mid-century modern American comedy, a thought-provoking play from one of the freshest new female voices in American drama, a journey through time and history by a preeminent Asian American playwright and a rich Shakespearean masterpiece, written by the mature Bard."
"Our 51st season is a celebration of our past achievements and a testament to our dedication to the art of acting," said Andrei Malaev-Babel, FSU Director and Head of Acting. "Numerous factors play into our season choices. The collective individuality of our graduate second-year ensemble is considered, as well as its individual members’ distinct talents. Our season selections cater to their strengths but also challenge them to achieve new artistic heights. We are thrilled to continue providing top-tier theatrical experiences for our audiences while nurturing the talents of our graduate students."
THE CURIOUS SAVAGE
By John Patrick
October 29-November 24, 2024
Presented in the Cook Theatre
Delight in the hilarious and bittersweet story of Mrs. Savage, an eccentric millionairess whose love of theatre and desire to help others cause her stepchildren to commit her to “The Cloisters,” a mental asylum for recovering patients, and of the unlikely new friends she makes there. At the end of this brilliant comedy, you won’t help but share in Mrs. Savage’s discovery that the cut-throat world of hypocrisy and greed outside of “The Cloisters” is more insane than the gentle commune inside its walls!
JOHN PROCTOR IS THE VILLAIN
By Kimberly Belflower
February 4- March 2, 2025
Presented in the Cook Theatre
In this witty and brutally honest play set in rural Georgia of 2019, a group of high-school students struggle to separate reality from illusion, truth from lie and right from wrong, as they study Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, while navigating their own complex and imperfect world. On that dizzying journey, full of heartbreak, betrayal and scandal, they find their true identities and beliefs, forge deeper friendships and challenge social stereotypes. Kimberly Belflower’s fresh new voice is not to be missed!
THE CHINESE LADY
By Lloyd Suh
February 11 - March 2, 2025
Presented in The John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art
Join us in the enchanted Wagon Room of the Ringling’s Old Circus Museum to meet Afong Moy, the first Chinese woman to immigrate to America. Follow her on a journey through the US from 1834 to this very day. Experience history through the eyes of this exquisite cultural ambassador, whose youthful optimism clashes with the cynicism of history. Witness Afong Moy’s beautiful spirit transcends time and space and defy the world’s ugliness to celebrate the inner beauty of human connection.
THE WINTER’S TALE
By William Shakespeare
April 1 - 27, 2025
Presented on the Elizabethan Stage in the Cook Theatre
No other play offers us so direct a pathway into the beauty, torment, and delight at the deepest core of Shakespeare’s soul. A king mad with jealousy, a faithful wife and friend, an adoring daughter, an angry witch, a couple of homespun clowns, and a very hungry bear combine to offer us a story of redemption, a love letter to country life and an indictment of repressive authority gone mad. “It is a heretic that makes the fire, not she which burns in it.”
New subscriptions for the four-play season are $120 and go on sale May 13, 2024. You can renew your subscription now for $100 at Asolo Rep's Box Office at 5555 N. Tamiami Trail or by phone at 941.351.8000 or 800.361.8388.
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