A Strange Loop, The Band’s Visit, Potus, Cost Of Living, And A Case For The Existence Of God Set For Speakeasy’s 23/24 Season

BOSTON - The Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical  A STRANGE LOOP; the Tony Award-winning musical comedy THE BAND’S VISIT; the searing Pulitzer Prize-winning drama COST OF LIVING; the hilarious Broadway comedy POTUS: OR, BEHIND EVERY GREAT ******* ARE SEVEN WOMEN TRYING TO KEEP HIM ALIVE; and the award-winning Off-Broadway hit

A CASE FOR THE EXISTIENCE OF GOD will make up SpeakEasy Stage Company’s 33rd Season, the company’s Founder and Producing Artistic Director Paul Daigneault announced on April 6, 2023.

The schedule for SpeakEasy Stage Company’s 2023-2024 Season will be: 

POTUS: OR, BEHIND EVERY GREAT ******* … – by Selena Fillinger / Sept. 15 – Oct. 7, 2023

THE BAND’S VISIT – musical by David Yazbek & Itamar Moses / Nov. 10 – Dec.10, 2023

A CASE FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD -- by Samuel D. Hunter / Jan. 26 – Feb 17, 2024

COST OF LIVING – by Martyna Majok / Mar. 8 – 30, 2024

A STRANGE LOOP – musical by Michael R. Jackson / Apr. 26 – May 25, 2024

“Once again I am excited to offer Boston audiences a bold and entertaining slate of the very best contemporary plays and musicals,” said Daigneault, in announcing the new SpeakEasy line-up.  “Each of these shows is uniquely theatrical and celebrates the importance of sharing our stories to better appreciate our common humanity.”

“We are also thrilled to be partnering with two of the city’s most exciting theatre companies to bring two of these great shows to Boston:  the delightful and deeply moving musical THE BAND’S VISIT, which we will co-produce with The Huntington; and the bold and blisteringly funny A STRANGE LOOP, which we will co-produce with Front Porch Arts Collective.”

Subscriptions are now on sale and can be purchased by calling BostonTheatreScene Audience Services at 617-933-8600, going online to www.SpeakEasyStage.com, or walking up to the Calderwood Pavilion box office at 527 Tremont Street in Boston’s South End. 

More information about each of SpeakEasy’s 2023-2024 productions can be found on the following pages or at www.SpeakEasyStage.com.

POTUS: OR, BEHIND EVERY GREAT ******* ARE SEVEN WOMEN TRYING TO KEEP HIM ALIVE  

By Selina Fillinger

Directed by Paula Plum

New England Premiere!  September 15 – October 7, 2023

Press Performance – Sunday, September 17 at 3PM

Roberts Studio Theatre

Direct from Broadway! It’s The Women meets House of Cards in this riotously funny comedy that celebrates the women who keep things running behind the scenes both in -- and out -- of the Oval Office. Seven brilliant and beleaguered women in the president’s inner circle take increasing desperate measures to save the country when the president’s scandals spark a global crisis. 

2) THE BAND’S VISIT

Music and Lyrics by David Yazbek

Book by Itamar Moses 

Based on the Screenplay by Eran Kolirin

Directed by Paul Daigneault

Music Direction by José Delgado

Choreography by Daniel Pelzig

A Co-Production with The Huntington Theatre Company

Boston Premiere!  November 10 – December 10, 2023

Press Performance – Wednesday, November 15 at 7PM

Huntington Theatre

Winner! Ten Tony Awards including Best Musical! In this charming, delightfully off-beat musical based on the award-winning film of the same name, a transportation mix-up strands an Egyptian police orchestra overnight in a remote Israeli village. With no lodging available, the locals take the musicians into their homes for the night, where, under the spell of the desert sky, the two groups bond over shared humanity and a love of music. Featuring a transporting mix of musical styles, including jazz, klezmer and Middle Eastern melodies, THE BAND’S VISIT is “one of the most ravishing musicals you’ll ever be seduced by.” (New York Times)

3)  A CASE FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD

By Samuel D. Hunter

Directed by Melinda Lopez

With Nael Nacer and De’Lon Grant

New England Premiere!  January 26 – February 17, 2024

Press Performance – Sunday, January 28 at 3PM

Roberts Studio Theatre

Winner!  Best Play - New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award!  Inside a cubicle in a bank in Twin Falls, Idaho, Keith, a mortgage broker, and Ryan, a yogurt plant worker, unexpectedly choose to bring one another into their fragile worlds.  Ryan, who is white and divorced, wants to buy a plot of land that his family used to own in the hopes of making a better life for his daughter.  Keith, who is Black, gay, and also single, is looking to adopt his foster daughter Willa before her relatives can steal her away. With humor, empathy, and wrenching honesty, playwright Samuel D. Hunter commingles these two lives in a story that is both small and big at the same time. 

4) COST OF LIVING
By Martyna Majok

Directed by Alex Lonati

Boston Premiere!  March 8-30, 2024

Press Performance – Sunday, March 10 at 3PM

Roberts Studio Theatre

Winner! 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Drama!  In this wry and quietly observed play, Polish-born playwright Martyna Majok interweaves the stories of four lonely souls to examine the forces that bring people together and the ways we all need each other.  Eddie, an unemployed truck driver, and his estranged ex-wife, Ani, find themselves unexpectedly reunited after she suffers a devastating accident. And John, a brilliant PhD student with cerebral palsy, hires as his new aide: Jess, a first-generation Princeton graduate who has fallen on desperate times. Together these powerful stories comment on the complexity of caring and being cared for, and “the various tendernesses of simply being human.” (The Daily Beast)

5) A STRANGE LOOP

Book, Music, and Lyrics by Michael R. Jackson

Directed by Maurice Emmanuel Parent

A Co-Production with Front Porch Arts Collective

April 26 – May 25, 2024

Press Performance – Sunday, April 28 at 3PM

Virginia Wimberly Theatre

Winner! 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and 2022 Tony Award for Best Musical!  Michael R. Jackson’s blisteringly funny masterwork exposes the heart and soul of a young artist grappling with desires, identity, and instincts he both loves and loathes. Meet Usher: a Black, queer writer writing a musical about a Black, queer writer writing a musical about a Black, queer writer.  Hell-bent on breaking free of his own self-perception, Usher wrestles with the thoughts in his head

Subscription Information

Subscriptions for SpeakEasy Stage Company’s 2023-2024 Season are now on sale. To purchase or for more information, call 617-933-8600 or go online to our website.

Patrons with subscription questions may also call Jim Torres at 617-482-3279 or write [email protected] .

Tickets to individual shows in SpeakEasy’s 2023 –2024 Season will go on sale on a rolling basis over the course of the season.

Press inquiries should be directed to SpeakEasy Stage Marketing Director Jim Torres.

Cell:  617-529-1670 (this number not for publication)

Email: [email protected]