The Off-Central Players, Big Break Youth Stage presents: A darkly delicious story of Veronica Sawyer, a brainy, beautiful teenage misfit who hustles her way into the most powerful and ruthless clique at Westerberg High: the Heathers. But before she can get comfortable atop the high school food chain, Veronica falls in love with the dangerously handsome new kid J.D. When Heather Chandler kicks her out of the group, Veronica decides to bite the bullet and kiss Heather’s aerobicized butt... but J.D. has another plan for that bullet.
In meticulous, hilarious, and agonizing detail, THIS IS OUR YOUTH follows forty-eight hours of three very lost young souls in the big city ... Warren Straub, a dejected nineteen-year-old who steals fifteen thousand dollars from his abusive lingerie-tycoon father; Dennis Ziegler, the charismatic domineering drug-dealing friend who helps him put the money to good use; and Jessica Goldman, the anxiously insightful young woman Warren yearns for. Funny, painful, and compassionate, THIS IS OUR YOUTH is a living snapshot of the moment between adolescence and adulthood when many young people first go out into the world on their own, armed only with the ideas and techniques they developed as teenagers—ideas and techniques far more sophisticated than their parents ever realize, and far less effectual than they themselves can possibly imagine.
A HILARIOUS HOT-BUTTON COMEDY! You can’t choose your neighbors. In this brilliant new comedy, cultures and gardens clash, turning well-intentioned neighbors into feuding enemies. Pablo, a rising attorney, and doctoral candidate Tania, his very pregnant wife, have just purchased a home next to Frank and Virginia, a well-established D.C. couple with a prize-worthy English garden. But an impending barbecue for Pablo’s colleagues and a delicate disagreement over a long-standing fence line soon spirals into an all-out border dispute, exposing both couples’ notions of race, taste, class and privilege.
Studio Grand Central is an intimate theater, gallery and performance venue in the heart of St. Petersburg's vibrant Grand Central District. Home to the Off-Central Players, Studio Grand Central provides a place for those who love live plays. Located at 2260 1st Avenue South, our main entrance is on 23rd Street. There is plenty of free street parking along 23rd Street and a few parking spots behind our building.
As home to The Off-Central Players, the Studio will host several relevant and thought-provoking creative performances. In addition, Studio Grand Central will provide a venue for students and performing artists in the St. Petersburg area to showcase their works.
An intimate theatre in the vibrant St. Petersburg Art's district, the Studio is available for private events. Please contact us for more information.