With plenty of curtain calls yet to come in the current season, Asolo Repertory Theatre and the FSU/Asolo Conservatory for Actor Training set the stage for the 2016/2017 season. The Asolo announced a line-up including a world premiere, another Tony Award-winning musical and more political and cultural examination for the final year of the American Character Project, while the Conservatory offers a varied season ranging from Shakespeare to Arthur Miller to contemporary comedy.

Opening Nov. 18, the Asolo Rep kicks off the season with the Tony Award-winning musical comedy Guys and Dolls, and Broadway performer and celebrated director Josh Rhodes returns to the Asolo as director and choreographer. Film and Broadway actor Nick Wyman also returns. Currently portraying President Lyndon B. Johnson on the Asolo stage in the production of All The Way, Wyman will reprise the role for the sequel from Pulitzer Prize-winner Robert Schenkkan, The Great Society. Nicole A. Watson directs this political drama opening Jan. 13.

Political drama continues along with the rep season with a production of The Originalist opening Jan. 20. Written by John Strand, the play tells the story of a young liberal law clerk who finds herself working for none other than Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. Arena Stage Artistic Director Molly Smith, who directed last year’s world premiere, comes to the Asolo as director, joined by four-time Helen Hayes Award-winner Edward Gero reprising the role he originated in Justice Scalia. Academy Award-winner Garson Kanin’s comedy Born Yesterday and The Little Foxes directed by Tony Award-winner Frank Galati round out the rep rotation, opening Feb. 10 and Mar. 17 respectively.

The remaining two shows announced include the exploration of race through the world of professional wrestling in the Pulitzer Prize-finalist The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity and the world premiere of Beatsville. A musical comedy with book from Tony Award nominee Glenn Slater and based on Roger Corman’s cult classic, A Bucket of Blood, laugh along with busboy Walter Paisley’s accidental artistic ascent.

“The fifth and final season of Asolo Rep’s American Character Project is brimming with iconic playwrights, headline-making political figures, quintessential American classics and provocative new work,” said Producing Artistic Director Michael Donald Edwards. “I’m thrilled to present this remarkable final chapter.”

The FSU/Asolo Conservatory season runs the emotional gamut and comprises the drama Book of Days from Lanford Wilson, Arthur Miller’s tragic A View From The Bridge and a contemporary comedy from Adam Bock, The Drunken City. The season concludes with a production of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream performed on the grounds of the Marie Selby Botanical Gardens.

Season tickets are currently on sale. Single tickets go on sale Sept. 2016.