The South Street Players was founded by R. J. Lamb in the spring of 1982. He and 18 other members brought the group to life the following fall with the first production, The Rainmaker, at the St. Rose gymnasium in Freehold. SSP continued to perform at St. Rose for our first three seasons. Shows there included Never Too Late, Plaza Suite, Harvey and Mass Appeal. In 1985 the company was approached by the Clarksburg Inn and asked to try dinner theatre at that location. The first dinner production, Barefoot in the Park, opened in June 1985. We continued producing both at St. Rose and Clarksburg for the next four years. Works mounted during this period included The Lion in Winter, Murder in the Cathedral, Deathtrap, On Golden Pond and Bus Stop.

We ended our run at St. Rose with the world premier of Firehouse, an original work by a local playwright. From 1989 until 1994 the company mounted plays solely at Clarksburg, with the exception of two shows at Battleground Country Club. Plays produced during this time included Our Town, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Fantasticks, Zoo Story, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and A Few Good Men. In 1994 the company left Clarksburg and produced one show, Love Letters, at the Freehold Borough High School. In 1995 we began one season at the Conover Road Firehouse in Colts Neck; plays produced included The Glass Menagerie.

In the fall of 1997 the Players returned to the Clarksburg Inn. Recent productions include Frankie and Johnny in the Claire de Lune and Twelve Angry Men. In 1998 the group produced two shows at the Amandla Theatre in Howell.

The company received a grant from Union County, New Jersey in 1999 to revive an original musical about the State of New Jersey. The work was written by Sid Frank, a playwright from Springfield. Subsequently, the play, JERZ, was performed in nine schools in Union County and has since been performed in temples, senior-citizen complexes, shopping malls, and at political events throughout the area. In the year 2000, the company added an original first act to JERZ and performed our only musical at Clarksburg, Jumping Into JERZ.

In 2003 the company moved to the elegant banquet facility at Mansion on the Plaza in Brick. After staying there for a year and a half, we continued to produce plays in Freehold at the Center Playhouse.

Then in 2006 we took up residence at the Priedaine, a facility owned by The New Jersey Latvian Society. The South Street Players hope to remain here for many years to come.

Complete List of Productions, 1982 - Present

• "The Rainmaker" by N. Richard Nash - October 1982
• "Never Too Late" by Summer Arthur Long - October 1983
• "Plaza Suite" by Neil Simon - May 1984
• "Harvey" by Mary Chase - October 1984
• "Mass Appeal" by Bill C. Davis - March 1985
• "Barefoot in the Park" by Neil Simon - June 1985
• "The Lion in Winter" by James Goldman - September 1985
• "Come Blow Your Horn" by Neil Simon - November 1985
• "Bus Stop" by William Inge - February 1986
• "Send Me No Flowers" by Norman Barasch and Carroll Moore - April 1986
• "Murder in the Cathedral" by T.S. Eliot - September 1986
• "The Prisoner of Second Avenue" by Neil Simon - November 1986
• "Death Trap" by Ira Levin - March 1987
• "On Golden Pond" by Ernest Thompson - May 1987
• "Brighton Beach Memoirs" by Neil Simon - September 1987
• "SIX RMS RIV VU" by Neil Simon - November 1987
• "Design for Murder" by George Batson - February 1988
• "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" by Edward Albee - March 1988
• "Crimes of the Heart" by Beth Henley - May 1988
• "Lemon Sky" by Lanford Wilson - September 1988
• "Picnic" by William Inge - November 1988
• "Mouse Trap" by Agatha Christie - March 1989
• "1959 Pink Thunderbird" by James McLure - 1989
• "Fire House" by Ed Shakespeare - September 1989
• "Vanities" by Jack Heifner - November 1989
• "The Fantasticks" by Harvey Schmidt - March 1990
• "The Odd Couple" by Neil Simon - May 1990
• "The Hound of the Baskervilles" by Tim Kelly - November 1990
• "Cat On a Hot Tin Roof" by Tennessee Williams - March 1991
• "Steel Magnolias" by Robert Harling - May 1991
• "God's Favorite" by Neil Simon - November 1991
• "Stops Along the Way" by Bob Gibson - January 1992
• "A Valentine Song Bouquet" by - February 1992
• "Zoo Story" by Edward Albee & "The Exhibition" by Thomas Gibbons - March 1992
• "Isn't it Romantic" by Wendy Wasserstein - May 1992
• "Our Town" by Thornton Wilder - November 1992
• "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Christopher Segel based on a novel by Harper Lee - March 1993
• "Same Time, Next Year" by Bernard Slade - May 1993
• "Barefoot in the Park" by Neil Simon - November 1993
• "A Few Good Men" by Aaron Sorkin - March 1994
• "Love Letters" by A.R. Gurney - January 1995
• "On Golden Pond" by Ernest Thompson - November 1995
• "Album" by David Rimmer - February 1996
• "The Glass Menagerie" by Tennessee Williams - May 1996
• "Eat Your Heart Out" by Nick Hall - November 1997
• "Bus Stop" by William Inge - January 1998
• "Vignettes" by Sid Frank and Edward Albee - March 1998
• "Fifth of July" by Lanford Wilson - May 1998
• "The Octette Bridge Club" by P.J. Barry - November 1998
• "Ordinary People" by Nancy Pahl Gilsenan based on a novel by Judith Guest - March 1999
• "Second Time Around" by Derek Benfield - April 1999
• "JERZ" by Sid Frank - May 1999
• "Arsenic and Old Lace" by Joseph Kesselring - November 1999
• "Jumping Into JERZ" by Sid Frank, Bob Lamb, and Maggie Rogers - March 2000
• The Cavern of the Jewels - April 2000
• "Twelve Angry Men" by Reginald Rose - May 2000
• "Gaslight" by Tom Taggart - November 2000
• "Treasure Island" by Ara Watson, from the novel by Robert Louis Stevenson - January 2001
• "Frankie & Johnny in the Clair de Lune" by Terence McNally - March 2001
• "Sunshine Boys" by Neil Simon - May 2001
• "Catholic School Girls" by Casey Kurtti - November 2001
• "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" by Dale Wasserman based a novel by Ken Kesey - March 2002
• "The Nerd" by Larry Shue - November 2002
• "The Boys Next Door" by Tom Griffin - March 2003
• "Dining Room" by A. R. Gurney - May 2003
• "It Had to Be You" by Renee Taylor and Joseph Bologna - November 2003
• "Funny Money" by Ray Cooney - February 2004
• "Cliffhanger" - September 2004
• "Woman In Black" from the novel by Susan Hill - February 2005
• "The Glass Menagerie" by Tennessee Williams - February 2006
• "Arsenic & Old Lace" by Joseph Kesselring - June 2006
• "Steel Magnolias" by Robert Harling - November 2006
• Currently playing - "And Then There Were None" - by Agatha Christie - February 2007
• "The Foreigner" by Larry Shue - Coming June 2007