FSU/Asolo Conservatory for Actor Training Announces 2023/2024 Season

May 31, 2023 – Sarasota

The FSU/Asolo Conservatory for Actor Training is thrilled to announce its highly anticipated 2023-24 season, featuring two cherished classical works, a staple of modern drama and a play by a leading African American female playwright. Audiences can expect a season filled with powerful performances and thought-provoking storytelling acted by the program’s talented second year graduate students. This season will also showcase two shows in repertory, a thrilling new endeavor for the season. 

On the upcoming season for the Conservatory, Director Andrei Malaev-Babel said, “During the 2023-24 season, the FSU/Asolo Conservatory will sustain its reputation as one of the top 25 acting programs worldwide by producing a season that will be as challenging for the actors as thrilling for the audiences.” 

The season opens with Anton Chekhov’s beloved masterpiece, THE THREE SISTERS (OCT 27 – NOV 19), showcasing the talents of second-year Conservatory actors in a major work of classical realism. It will be concluded by an enchanting production of Shakespeare’s timeless tragedy, ROMEO AND JULIET (APRIL 5 –28), serving as a culmination of the students’ Shakespearian training.

The heart of the season lies in the Kitchen Duology, featuring two plays performed in winter repertory. August Strindberg’s MISS JULIE (FEB 15 – MARCH 10) takes the audience on a rollercoaster ride of human lust, desire, and longing, while Lynn Nottage’s CLYDE’S (FEB 16 – MARCH 9) explores lofty dreams and aspirations against all odds in a captivating narrative set inside a unique kitchen.

“Where else in Sarasota can you see Shakespeare and Chekhov; experience the feverish world of Strindberg and step into hell’s kitchen of Lynn Nottage’s tragic-comic masterpiece Clyde’s?” says Malaev-Babel. “Only our highly trained graduate actors can deliver such a unique season, although this time they won’t do it alone. Our audiences will be thrilled to see the Conservatory’s illustrious faculty, and our talented alums join the second-year Conservatory actors this coming season. Such an unprecedented occasion is a cause for celebration, and a treat for our students and audiences alike!”

Continuing its popular Shakespeare in The Ringling Bayfront Gardens series, the FSU/Asolo Conservatory presents ROMEO AND JULIET (APRIL 5 – 28) in the magnificent banyan grove of The Ringling with select performances indoors on the Cook Theatre stage. This production will allow the audience to experience the tragic tale indoors or outdoors, immersing them in the timeless story of love and hate. The Conservatory’s Cook Theatre will be transformed for the 2023-24 season into a thrust that will bring the actors even closer to our audiences, thus immersing them into action, and promising our spectators an experience of communion with the stage unlike any other.

Subscriptions for the four-play season are $100 and on sale now. Single tickets to each play are $35 and go on sale in the Fall. Subscriptions can be purchased in person at Asolo Rep’s Box Office at 5555 N. Tamiami Trail, or by phone at 941.351.8000