Our Mission
The Mission of West End Players Guild is to offer character-driven, dramatically significant plays that appeal to and reflect the diverse tastes of the St. Louis metropolitan theater-going public. We are big theater in a small space.
2011–2012 Season
Wake Up, Cameron Dobbs
The actors and director talk about Cameron Dobbs
Reviews for The Seafarer
“The West End Players Guild tag line is ‘big theatre in a small space’. They are true to their word with this excellent production of The Seafarer — a powerful, darkly funny journey into the language-rich world of Irish playwright Conor McPherson’s native Dublin…. Tá an dráma seo go han-deas. Go han-deas ar fad!”
“The … dialogue rolls like a roaring tide… [T]here’s enough richness of character here (Robert Ashton has great fun with Sharky’s recently blinded and perpetually pie-eyed brother) to keep The Seafarer afloat.”
“[G]o see The Seafarer, the grotesque, outstanding new show at West End Players Guild, then tell everyone you know.… [It⁏s] a celebration that’s strangely festive and death-defying.”
Richard Green, Talkin’ Broadway
The Seafarer is “given a rich and rewarding interpretation by director Steve Callahan and his splendid quintet of players in the current West End Players Guild presentation.”
Andrea Torrance, St. Louis Theatre Snob
Steve Allen, Stage Door St. Louis
Bob Wilcox and Gerry Kowarsky in Two on the Aisle (at approx. 19 minutes)
The stakes in this card game are much more than the money in the pot, as Sharky Harkin (played by Matt Hanify, second from right) discovers that he may be playing for his very soul. The cast of the West End Players Guild production of Conor McPherson’s The Seafarer includes (from left to right) Barry Hyatt as Mr. Lockhart; Robert Ashton as Richard Harkin; Charlie Heuvelman as Ivan Curry; Hanify; and John Reidy as Nicky Giblin. (Photo credit: John Lamb)
