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Jim Lindhorst is a member of the American Theatre Critis/Journalists Association and St. Louis Theatre Circle. He has been a theater enthusiast for nearly 5-decades. He was bitten by the theater bug as a young teen while sitting in the last row of the upper balcony to see the first national tour of ‘A Chorus Line.’ During high school and college he worked as a part of the stage crew at a regional dinner theater in St Louis, Missouri. While earning his Bachelor of Arts in Mass Communications Degree at the University of Missouri - St Louis, he studied Theater History, Production Aesthetics, Stagecraft and acted in shows with the University Players. Over the past 30-years he has been an avid patron of theater, holding season tickets for the Broadway Series at The Fabulous Fox Theater in St Louis and at the St. Louis Muny. A frequent visitor to NYC, Jim has relished seeing the Tony Award winning performances of Lilias White (The Life), Andrea Martin (Pippin), Patina Miller (Pippin), Jayne Houdyshell (The Humans), Ben Platt (Dear Evan Hansen), Rachel Bay Jones (Dear Evan Hansen), James Monroe Iglehart (Aladdin), J Harrison Ghee (Some Like it Hot), and Alex Newell (Shucked). He is an avid supporter of Broadway Cares Equity Fights AIDS (BCEFA.) 

Rob Levy is a St. Louis based writer, blogger, DJ and podcaster with extensive experience writing about theatre, opera, health, science, tech, film, music and popular culture for St. Louis Magazine, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, ALIVE Magazine, The Riverfront Times, FEAST, and The St. Louis Business Journal. He also has written about popular culture for Reviewstl.com and Onstl.com. He is the cohost of the Modern Musicology podcast and host of Antics on Louder Than War Radio, The Free Design on The Face Radio and Juxtaposition on KDHX.

A native Kansan I have a BA (Math and Theatre) and MA (Theatre). I was working on a PhD in Theatre when IBM sniffed my math background and lured me away with money enough to feed my (then two) children. Nevertheless I've been active in theatre all my life--having directed sixty-eight productions (everything from opera in Poughkeepsie to Mrozek in Woodstock to musical melodrama in Germany) and I've acted in ninety others. (As Daddy Warbucks in "Annie" I let 13 little girls shave my head.)  I've served on play-selection committees for several small companies for decades.  Now that I'm retired I don't have that eight-to-five distraction and can focus a bit more.  One of my plays, "The Counting of the Heads", was chosen to be presented at the Creative Nations First Storytellers Festival in Bouilder.
I've regularly reviewed theatre and opera in St. Louis for KDHX since 1991 and for BWW since 2014.