I've been working with a playwright this year on a new work and we had a staged reading and it had great success, but we have not found a producer and the actors are getting ancy.  The playwright wants to pull the rug from underneath it, but I keep telling her that there is still a chance and that we have to be patient.  She doesn't think it's as great as I think it is and we have not heard a lot of feedback.  The feedback we get is great, but my professor in school said that he didn't like the play.  He said it is either too militant or too much like stand-up comedy.  But the thing is he really doesn't like social plays and the play I am directing is a social-commentary that uses comedy to address very serious issues in our society today. 

It is not a "normal" play that would do well in a traditional theatre.  It will do better touring different progressive college's & universities in the U.S. and/or being performed at non-traditional/progressive theatres. 

I keep telling the playwright to be patient and that we never know when it is going to happen.  We have a lot of actors and I am the established director so that gives us a slender chance of getting a theatre company to put it on unless we find a producer outside that wants to support our goals/efforts.  The other thing is that the playwright and I are both full-time students so our time is very limited and the time I do get to put into submitting it is partial.

What kind of suggestions do you have?  Thank you.
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Probably a slim chance of a producer materializing to take your show on a tour buy why not produce it yourself? Is there a theater at your college you could use? Maybe a local community theater that would let you use their space?   

Unless you rent a space and do it yourself right now, release the actors.  You can't keep people hanging for a Maybe project.