Asolo Repertory Theatre Announces 2023-2024 Season

March 28, 2023 – Sarasota

Asolo Repertory Theatre proudly announced its 2023-2024 season today in a live event with current Producing Artistic Director Michael Donald Edwards alongside incoming Producing Artistic Director Peter Rothstein.

The six-show season will include Crazy For You, Inherit The Wind, the Alley Theatre’s world premiere production of Born With Teeth, Intimate Apparel, Dial ‘M’ For Murder and the Theater Latté Da world premiere of Twelve Angry Men: A New Musical.

“For our upcoming season, we’ve programmed six shows that are going to delight, entertain, and invigorate you,” notes Edwards. “These plays and musicals investigate some of the most urgent questions of our day with theatrical style and panache, a mixture of the beloved and the new that will leave you wondering: Who could ask for anything more?” 

Creating the 2023-2024 season presented a unique opportunity for Edwards to partner alongside Rothstein to create a season that gives Sarasota audiences the elements they know and love from Asolo Rep while introducing new and exciting partnerships. 

Rothstein continued, “I view a season as an opportunity to tell a wide range of stories, in a variety of theatrical styles, and reflecting a diversity of lived experiences. This season is a dynamic collection of comedies, dramas, thrillers and musicals that shine a light on the past, celebrate the present, and imagine a better future.” 

The season kicks off in November with the Tony Award®-winning, toe-tapping, romantic comedy, CRAZY FOR YOU (Nov. 15 – Jan. 4). Featuring iconic Gershwin songs such as “Someone to Watch Over Me,” “I Got Rhythm,” and “Embraceable You,” this family-friendly musical is full of comic high jinks and spectacular dance numbers. Fresh off last year’s smash hit Cabaret, Josh Rhodes will direct and choreograph. 

The winter repertory season includes four dynamic and thought-provoking plays. Rep opens with an explosive drama, INHERIT THE WIND (Jan. 17 – Feb. 24). Inspired by the most important trial of the 20^th Century, the play was a smash hit on Broadway and later became an Oscar®-nominated film. Peter Rothstein will direct this battle of wits and wills that will leave pulses racing. 

Fresh off its critically acclaimed world premiere runs at the Alley Theatre and Guthrie Theatre, BORN WITH TEETH (Feb. 7 – March 29) will plunge audiences into palace intrigue, high stake spy craft and cutthroat betrayals. Directed by Rob Melrose, this play offers an inside, alternative look at the tumultuous relationship between William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe. 

_­The third play in the repertory season is from the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage. INTIMATE APPAREL (Feb. 28 – April 18) is the searing, sensual and powerful story of a Black seamstress’ forbidden romance in 1905 New York. Directed by Austene Van, audiences will be entranced by this heart wrenching modern classic about the power of human connection.

Wrapping up the four-show repertory season is a classic by Frederick Knott that has been reimaged by one of today’s greatest playwrights, Jeffrey Hatcher. DIAL ‘M’ FOR MURDER (March 20 – April 25) will take audiences to the edge of their seat as Asolo Rep Associate Artistic Director Céline Rosenthal directs this stylish and intoxicating thriller. 

The spring brings the Theater Latté Da world premiere production of TWELVE ANGRY MEN: A NEW MUSICAL (May 8 – June 9). Propelled by a jazz-infused score, one of America’s greatest dramas reaches new heights in this searing story of a lone juror who demands that our legal system lives up to our ideals. This groundbreaking new musical is directed by Asolo Rep’s new Producing Artistic Director Peter Rothstein, who has played an integral role in bringing this new work to the stage.

Subscriptions are now on sale for Asolo Rep’s six-show package, which includes Crazy For You ®, Inherit the Wind, Born With Teeth, Intimate Apparel, Dial ‘M’ For Murder and Twelve Angry Men: A New Musical. Flex Pass packages are also available. Subscriptions may be purchased in person at Asolo Rep’s Box Office at 5555 N. Tamiami Trail, by phone at 941.351.8000 or online at asolorep.org. Single tickets will go on sale in September.