July Updates

34 West celebrated its 8th anniversary in Charleston, our current show SHE DRIVES ME CRAZY is breaking records, we started pre-production on our next short film ARDEN HIGH, AND a new show in NYC has blown our minds.

Good things are ahead!

Owners-actors-writers Jeff Querin and Stephen Wayne started the troupe in 2000 touring smaller venues, including a medium-level prison in Albuquerque!

But a milestone for the company came in 2014, when they opened a brick-and-mortar venue in beautiful downtown Charleston. It took about a year and a half to build an audience, and we’ve been sold out ever since. Every. Single. Night.

Now we’re developing our most popular shows into short films and pilot scripts. Its a big-fun-crazy endeavor that, surprisingly, is making our live shows that much better in return.

We’re always attempting to improve upon the experience you’ll have when you see a show. Thus, we traveled to NYC on Tuesday to see TITANIQUE, an inspired and outrageous show parodying the blockbuster film as interpreted by “Celine Dion.” Words cannot express the impact it made on our writers…

Expect to see even more bizarre, clever, and hysterical moments at 34 West on your next visit.

For tickets…

Actors Becca Anderson, Jeff Querin and Stephen Wayne celebrate 8 years in Charleston!

Most Popular Drink

Act I is what happens before the show starts.

The experience begins the moment you walk through the doors. You’ve arrived, you’re at your table, you may even meet some new friends sitting nearby. And then you decide to get something at the bar.

Maybe it’s a bottle of our Paso Robles wines. Or perhaps a Not-Your-Father’s Ice Cream Float. Or perhaps its our most popular drink. The MPD. The Queen. The iconic LEMON SPARKLE.

Locally made lemon sorbet, dry Dibon Champagne with a hand-rolled fruit slice garnish.

What should I drink for SHE DRIVES ME CRAZY? The Lemon Sparkle. What do I sip during one of our monthly NTLive Broadcasts? The Lemon Sparkle.

Available in single, double or triple.

The choice is yours…

Sarah Goldman Photography

Creative Team Unplugged

Everything you ever need to know about us in 6 minutes.

We apologize if it gets a little blue.

Writers-actors-producers Jeff Querin, Stephen Wayne, and Becca Anderson took turns asking each other harmless questions that quickly turned into off-the-wall, slightly inappropriate insights into each other’s lives.

But that’s what the writer’s room looks like: affirming, spontaneous, hilarious, joyful, humbling… You think the conversation is going one way and then BAM!, it slides down a sidehill full of anecdotes and embarrassing life lessons.

Maybe it was because we’re a little slap-happy. We’re currently in pre-production for our next short film ARDEN HIGH while also in performances with our summer sellout SHE DRIVES ME CRAZY.

If you’re on the fence about getting tickets to our live show in downtown Charleston, decide soon. Tickets are selling quickly…

Nick Fancher Photography

8 Year Anniversary

Since July 11, 2014 the following are true,

28 original plays.

6 years of sold out performances.

1 award-winning short film.

Visits from 4 different Tony Award and Olivier Award-winning producers.

400+ annual Season Pass holders.

And that’s just our time in Charleston. Owners-writers-actors Jeff Querin and Stephen Wayne started 34 West in 2000, creating 50+ original stories for the stage. They’ve performed their shows in everything from a bluegrass bar in Brooklyn to a prison in New Mexico!

However, on any given Thursday through Saturday in Charleston, you can see something extraordinarily unique in the heart of downtown. Innovation and creativity combine on the corner of Meeting and Pinckney Streets.

Take our current show SHE DRIVES ME CRAZY as a perfect example of the “magic” that occurs.

Four actors change characters in the blink of an eye. A 90’s coffee shop changes to a shopping mall then to a 5-story walkup then back to a coffee shop — all without you realizing any costly hydraulics or major pyrotechnics were not used.

That’s why people return again… and again. Not only is this particular live theater experience incomparable to ANYWHERE ELSE but no other venue allows you to have the artists make you a drink before the magic begins!

It’s a place where creativity mingles amongst a community of like minds. Part theatrical workshop, part cocktail party.

Over the past 8 years, what’s developed is an incubator of sorts; a creativity machine where love, inspiration and positivity are the gear works.

We hope you can experience one of these evenings with us soon! For tickets…

Sarah Goldman Photography

Hot Summer Nights

Our current show SHE DRIVES ME CRAZY is the absolute perfect way to spend a cool evening in downtown Charleston this summer. Otherwise, you’re doomed.

The whole reason to work and live in Charleston is to enjoy the heat throughout the year. However, we all need a respite from the jungle-like tropics every now and then and 34 West is the next best thing to packing everyone in a freezer.

The show itself is silly + sweet just like Kramer or Elaine or Monica... In fact, this particular musical (which is selling out very quickly these days)! was actually designed to look like any show on “Must-See-TV”.

We call it Friends meets Seinfeld since it’s a loving homage to a handful of iconic NBC hits. We even nod our heads to a few Meg Ryan movies as well!

The story, directed by actor-writer-producer Becca Anderson, follows a group of friends in a local coffee shop as they stalk an eligible bachelor in their building. Chaos ensues, love is found, and everything is wrapped up in a beautiful bow, sort of.

Your mouth will hurt from smiling. Your side will ache from laughing. And to top it all off, you won’t even break a sweat… mostly because we always keep the theater quite cool.

So grab your friends… and a light-weight sweater and join us for a night out in downtown Charleston you won’t soon forget!

Tickets…