The Midnight Company Announces Two Shows for Its Next Season

The Midnight Company Announces Two Shows for Its Next Season

The Midnight Company announces two shows for its 2025 Season.  In July at The Chapel, Midnight will present the World Premiere of PRIDE AND JOY, co-produced with playwright Colin McLaughlin.  And October at Greenfinch will bring a revival of Conor McPherson’s ST. NICHOLAS.

McLaughlin’s PRIDE AND JOY, which was seen in a one performance reading at the 2024 St. Louis Fringe Festival, reveals a family gathering for an intervention for one of its members.  But confusion reigns as the family tries to figure out just who this intervention is meant for.
Carl Overly Jr. will direct.  Carl won a Theatre Critics Circle award for Outstanding Supporting Actor/Comedy for Midnight’s 2021 show IT IS MAGIC.
The cast includes Summer Baer, who’s performed in Midnight shows RODNEY’S WIFE and THE YEARS; Lavonne Byers, who last year won a Critics Circle award for Outstanding Actress for Midnight’s THE LION IN WINTER; Lize Lewy, who as a playwright is nominated this year for a Critics Circle award for Outstanding New Play for her script LONGING; Jacob Schmidt, who this year is nominated as Outstanding Supporting Actor/Comedy for his role in TRAYF at New Jewish Theatre; and Joe Hanrahan, Midnight’s Artistic Director.
PRIDE AND JOY will run July 10-26 at The Chapel.

And kicking off the Halloween season will be ST. NICHOLAS, the eerie story of a Dublin theatre critic (portrayed by Joe Hanrahan) who, on a wayward trip to London, encounters a band of vampires and faces a turning point in his life.  Midnight has presented this show before, with performances at McGurks Irish pub, the late great Herbie’s Wine Room, and at Carrie Houk’s HH Studio.  For these, critics cited the production’s “terrifying realism”, and called Hanrahan’s performance “stunning” and “brilliant.”  (Hanrahan shared that Outstanding Actor award with Overly in a tie for IT IS MAGIC, and this year will receive a Lifetime Achievement award at the Critics Circle ceremony.)
ST. NICHOLAS will be directed by Bradley Rohlf, who previously won an Outstanding Director award for his direction of the musical ASSASSINS from Fly North.
The show will run October 2-5 at Greenfinch.

More details, including when tickets will go on sale, and invitations to these will be forthcoming.
For more information on the Company, visit MidnightCompany.com.

(These shows will follow Midnight Cabaret Theatre productions at The Blue Strawberry:
March 22 (with more to be announced) will be JUST ONE LOOK, Midnight’s Linda Ronstadt show, entering its third year of sold out performances.
And April 11 & 18 will be the Premiere of IT WILL BE, The Spirit and Soul of Natalie Cole.
Tickets for these shows are on sale now at BlueStrawberrySTL.com)

Original Plays and World Premieres Part of SATE’s 2022 Season of Party

Original Plays and World Premieres Part of SATE’s 2022 Season of Party

SATE looks forward to a return to live, in-person productions in 2022, the Season of Party, with all world-premiere, original plays, including the Sixth Annual Aphra Behn Festival and Brontë Sister House Party by Courtney Bailey.

To kick off the 2022 Season of Party, SATE will present its sixth annual Aphra Behn Festival, April 29-May 1, 2022 at 8:00 PM (CST) at Centene Center for the Arts in midtown St. Louis. Established in 2017, the Aphra Behn Festival’s goal is to give women interested in directing and writing for theatre an opportunity to get more experience, experiment, and hone their craft. The Festival is named for the fascinating poet, translator, and spy, Aphra Behn, who is widely considered to be the first English woman to make her living as a playwright.

In 2022, SATE will produce three original plays written and directed by women artists. 

Go Before I Do by Hazel McIntire, directed by LaWanda Jackson
A bar in the nightlife district becomes a portal into others life as drinks are poured and memories made. A daughter lives through the loss of both of her parents in the span of a few short years, which is viewed by her faithful bartender. A view of the world seen by the often unseen, Go Before I Do is a story of growth, exploration, and understanding. 

Repurposed, by Michelle Zielinski, directed by Elizabeth Van Pelt
Will a downcast visitor on a dreary day find meaning in strange modern art? And which is stranger, the art or the other people? Reply Hazy, Try Again …

The Super Fun Time Party Palace by Lize Lewy, directed by Rae Davis
The Super Fun Time Party Palace is a look into the banality of parenthood. Frankie and Jessie are first time parents who will try anything to make their 6 year old son’s birthday a success, and in doing so, chaos ensues. 

Audition information can be found on SATE website at www.satestl.org under the Auditions banner. 

Festival Stage Manager: Emma Glose

Festival Designers: Bess Moynihan, Liz Henning, Grace Sellers, and students from East Central College. 

Festival Graphic Design by Dottie Quick.

SATE’s 2022 Aphra Behn Festival is made possible by funding from the Missouri Arts Council and The Steven Nelson Memorial Playwright’s Fund. 

The second show in the 2022 season is Brontë Sister House Party by Courtney Bailey, directed by Keating, designed by Bess Moynihan and Liz Henning, running August 10-27, 2022 at The Chapel. Originally commissioned by St. Louis Shakespeare Festival as part of the Confluence Writers Project 2021 cohort, Brontë Sister House Party will receive its world-premiere production by SATE. 

The Brontë sisters of Victorian literary fame (Charlotte, Emily, and Anne) are trapped in a purgatorial time loop where they must throw a fabulous house party every night for eternity. Only when they reach The Point of Celebratory Reverence, the highest point of celebration that a party can achieve, will they be released. An absurd, feminist revisionist tribute to all the women artists who’ve created under pressure and still had it in them to throw a good party. 

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