{"id":177748,"date":"2026-04-28T00:43:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T00:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/177748\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T00:43:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T00:43:09","slug":"university-of-scranton-players-present-the-apiary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/177748\/","title":{"rendered":"University of Scranton Players present \u2018The Apiary\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>The University of Scranton Players will soon present \u201cThe Apiary,\u201d written by Kate Douglas and directed by University of Scranton alum Sam Morales \u201811. \u201cThe Apiary\u201d will feature original music by University of Scranton alum Kiley Lotz \u201813 and choreography by Kirsten Kaschock.<\/p>\n<p>The production will run from Wednesday, April 29, to Sunday, May 3. All performances will be at 8 p.m. except for a Sunday show at 2 p.m. The performances will be in the Studio Theater in the McDade Center for the Literary and Performing Arts on the University of Scranton campus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Apiary\u201d takes place in a synthetic honeybee laboratory 20 years into the future. Three women working in the laboratory are tasked with trying to keep the last few bee colonies alive in a world where they are rapidly dying off. When an unfortunate incident leads to a shocking discovery and a sudden increase in the bee population, the women must decide how far they are willing to go to keep the population growing. \u201cThe Apiary\u201d warns us that the key to protecting ourselves and the planet is right in front of us, if only we would listen.<\/p>\n<p>The company of \u201cThe Apiary\u201d features: Myracle Brunette of Rockaway Beach, New York; Cassidy Lowman of Harrisburg; Gabriella Palmer of Phoenixville; Arion Solomon of Queens, New York; Lauren Spratt of Philadelphia; Nicole Tonny of Scranton; and Ava Wheeler of Scranton.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets are $10 for general admission and $7 for senior citizens, students and University of Scranton faculty and staff. First-year students at the University can see the show for free on the first weekend.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact the University Players box office at 570-941-4318 or visit the Players on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; The University of Scranton Players will soon present \u201cThe Apiary,\u201d written by Kate Douglas and directed by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177749,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-177748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}