2025 SEASON

All shows at the Kranzberg Black Box Theater, 501 N. Grand Blvd, St. Louis, MO 63103. Friday & Saturday evenings at 8.00 p.m., Sundays at 2.00 p.m.

THE BEAUTY QUEEN OF LEENANE by Martin McDonagh: March 14 – 30, 2025

Set in the small town of Leenane, County Galway, Ireland, The Beauty Queen of Leenane tells the darkly comic tale of Maureen, a lonely woman in her early 40s, and Mag, her manipulative aging mother. Mag’s interference in Maureen’s first and possibly final chance of a loving relationship sets in motion a train of events that leads inexorably towards the play’s terrifying denouement. One of the trilogy by McDonagh set in Leenane which includes The Lonesome West and A Skull in Connemara.  

COLDER THAN HERE by Laura Wade: June 13 – 29, 2025

Myra is dying but her husband and two daughters struggle to accept the situation.  As she researches burial places and coffins, her family are finally forced to communicate with her, and each other, as they face up to an unpredictable future.  “Wade’s original and beautifully observed play balances raw emotion with a deliciously delicate black humour.” (Aleks Sierz, The Stage.) Originally produced in 2005, we are delighted to present our first production by a female playwright.

I HAVE BEEN HERE BEFORE by J.B. Priestley: Oct 17 – Nov 2, 2025

A group of people are thrown together apparently by chance when they decide to stay at a remote Yorkshire inn.  Yet they are so inter-dependent that decisions taken by them could have a disastrous effect on their and many others’ lives. Have they lived through the experience before? Is there a chance to make different decisions this time? 

I Have Been Here Before, is a compelling and intelligent drama that explores the circularity of time, fate, and free will.  Along with An Inspector Calls, this is one of Priestley’s so called “Time Plays” each constructed around a particular concept of time.