St. Louis Actors' Studio Continues Season with CLOSER, Ending 2/27

St. Louis Actors' Studio fourth season continues with Patrick Marber's Closer, the winner of the 1998 Olivier Award for Best Play and the 1999 New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Foreign Play.

St. Louis Actors' Studio continues its fourth season, themed Angels and Demons, with Patrick Marber's award winning play Closer. Closer follows four lives intertwine over the course of four and a half years in a densely plotted, stinging look at modern love and betrayal. Dan, an obituary writer, meets Alice, a stripper, after an accident in the street. Eighteen months later, they are a couple, and Dan has written a novel inspired by Alice. While posing for his book jacket cover, Dan meets Anna, a photographer. He pursues her, but she rejects his advances despite their mutual attraction. Larry, a dermatologist, "meets" Dan in an Internet chat room. Dan, obsessing over Anna, pretends to be her and has cybersex with Larry. They arrange to meet the next day at an aquarium. Larry arrives and so too, coincidentally, does the real Anna. This sets up a series of pass-the-lover scenes in which this quartet struggle to find intimacy but can't seem to get closer.

Directed by 2011 St. Louis Arts Award Honoree Wayne Salomon, Closer will feature the following cast: John Pierson*, Meghan Maguire, Chris Lawyer and Rachel Fenton (*Member of Actors' Equity Association).

This play is intended for mature audiences.

When: Friday, February 11, through Sunday, February 27. Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m. Sundays at 2 p.m.

Gaslight Theater, 358 N Boyle, CWE, 1.5 Blocks North of Lindell.

Tickets: Adults - $25; Students, Seniors & Veterans - $20; Individual tickets are available for purchase through Ticketmaster.com, all Ticketmaster Ticket Centers or Charge by Phone at 1-800-982-2787. Tickets will also be available at the theater box office one hour prior to performances.visit: www.stlas.org or call 314.458.2978

For more information on St. Louis Actors' Studio please visit www.stlas.org.

Don't miss the conclusion of our Angels and Demons season!

June 3 - 19, 2011: Just Desserts, a premiere evening of monologues and one-act plays by Neil LaBute, directed by Milt Zoth and Keven Beyer.