Chauncy Thomas News

The vengeful and doubting King Leontes and his falsely accused wife Queen Hermione will be played by Festival veterans Charles Pasternak and Cherie Corinne Rice in Shakespeare Festival St. Louis' production of The Winter's Tale, June 2-25, at Shakespeare Glen in Forest Park. This marks the company's 17th season of free, outdoor, professional theatre in the park. Preview performances are scheduled May 31 and June 1.  Performances run nightly, except Tuesdays, and begin at 8 p.m. 

The New Jewish Theatre continues its 20th Season with the Award-winning Lynn Nottage play, Intimate Apparel from January 26 - February 12.

Alabama Story, which recently opened at the Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater, begins and ends with the simple, child-like need for the characters to both tell and beckon the audience to prepare for a story: a story that tells of the South but deals with much that is not southern in nature, a story that was not meant to turn into anything other than something with a happy ending. Alabama Story tells a story of people who have stories, make up stories, and never saw the proper end to their stories: all taking place in the turbulent years leading up to the 1960's.

Bay Street Theater & Sag Harbor Center for the Arts is pleased to announce the cast of this November's Literature Live! production of John Steinbeck's OF MICE AND MEN, directed by Joe Minutillo. Performances will be held at the Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor, NY from November 9 to 28.

Bay Street Theater & Sag Harbor Center for the Arts is pleased to announce the cast of this November's Literature Live! production of John Steinbeck's OF MICE AND MEN, directed by Joe Minutillo. Performances will be held at the Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor, NY from November 9 to 28. Public performances will be presented on Fridays and Saturdays November 13-14, 20-21, and Thanksgiving Weekend, November 27-28 at 7 pm. BroadwayWorld has a sneak peek at the cast in rehearsal below!

Harper Lee's classic novel To Kill a Mockingbird is indeed an astonishing tale and the staged incarnation is just as powerful as the book first published in 1960. The story is Lee's account of her own observations of her own family and neighborhood in addition to an event that occurred in/near her hometown in 1936, when she was 10 years old.

Bay Street Theater & Sag Harbor Center for the Arts presents its Literature Live! production of TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, directed by Joe Minutillo. Performances will be held at the Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor, NY from November 5 to 29. Check out a first look below!

Bay Street Theater & Sag Harbor Center for the Arts is pleased to announce the cast of this November's Literature Live! production of TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, directed by Joe Minutillo. Performances will be held at the Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor, NY from November 5 to 29. Public performances will be presented on Friday's and Saturday's November 7-8, 14-15, 21-22, and Thanksgiving Weekend November 28-29 at 7 pm. Matinees will be held on Saturday's, November 15, 22 and 29 at 2 pm. Groups and weekday show times vary and are open to the public based on availability. Tickets on sale now at the Box Office at 631-725-9500 or online at www.baystreet.org.

Jim Butz will play the expansive role of Prince Hal/King Henry V in Shakespeare Festival St. Louis' productions of Henry IV and Henry V, today, May 17 through June 15, at Shakespeare Glen in Forest Park, it was announced today by Rick Dildine, artistic and executive director of Shakespeare Festival St. Louis.

Jim Butz will play the expansive role of Prince Hal/King Henry V in Shakespeare Festival St. Louis' productions of Henry IV and Henry V, May 17 through June 15, at Shakespeare Glen in Forest Park, it was announced today by Rick Dildine, artistic and executive director of Shakespeare Festival St. Louis.

Playwright/novelist/screenwriter/songwriter Suzan-Lori Parks has crafted an intriguing work with Topdog/Underdog, which is currently playing at The Gaslight Theater in a marvelously acted production by the St. Louis Actors' Studio. The theme for their seventh season is 'Sins of the Father', and as they have in the past, it's an eclectic and cool mix of older classic works, and newer plays. This current production is distinguished by a pair of exceptional performances which really make it worthy of your time and attention.

With this fourth foray into his Pittsburgh cycle, playwright August Wilson crafts another masterwork with THE PIANO LESSON. Wilson's play, once again, captures an era rich in detail in African American history, and ponders the meaning of the word legacy, and how it applies to different individuals. The Black Rep's current production is very nicely crafted and performed, and if you haven't seen it yet, there's still time. It's certainly a journey well worth taking.

The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis presents Clybourne Park now playing through Sunday, November 18, 2012. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the show below.

Playwright Bruce Norris has written a real gem with his work CLYBOURNE PARK. This is a wonderfully clever and often hilarious work that looks at racism from two different angles, each represented in acts that take place in the past and in the present, respectively. The current production by the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis is simply perfect, with expert direction and a fabulous cast. This is absolutely must-see theatre, and one, I dare say, that may have you coming back for repeat business.

The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis (The Rep) opens its 2012-2013 Studio Theatre series with the insightful comedy Clybourne Park by Bruce Norris. This engaging production will be performed in the Emerson Studio Theatre at the Loretto-Hilton Center for the Performing Arts, 130 Edgar Road (on the campus of Webster University), Webster Groves, tonight, October 24-November 11, 2012.

The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis (The Rep) opens its 2012-2013 Studio Theatre series with the insightful comedy Clybourne Park by Bruce Norris. This engaging production will be performed in the Emerson Studio Theatre at the Loretto-Hilton Center for the Performing Arts, 130 Edgar Road (on the campus of Webster University), Webster Groves, October 24-November 11, 2012.

The Ceremony for the Seventh Annual Kevin Kline Awards took place last night at the Loretto-Hilton Theater, honoring productions in St Louis from 2011. We've got the full list of nominees and winners below.

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM is one of the few Shakespearean plays that's considered totally original, not owing its story to any other source other than the Bard's imagination. It's a delightful romantic comedy with fun, supernatural elements, and unlike his many tragedies and histories, nobody dies. In the hands of The Black Rep, it's been transformed into an absolutely funkadelic experience. Director Chris Anthony has set this version in the 1970's, and as such, it's filled with wildly colored clothing from that period, and features snippets of dialog and music anyone who grew up in that era will recognize. It's also superbly performed.