The latest reviews and critic recommendations from St. Louis.
The entertaining 8th Annual Aphra Bren Festival successfully gave fresh female, transgender, and non-binary voices the medium to have their works professionally produced and be heard.
This is an excellent production of a story that is difficult to watch.
Mason’s entrancing show is a love letter to the legendary songwriting team.
The Rep’s August Osage County is a rough and tumble roller-coaster ride of anxiety, anger, and alienation that reflects on familial dysfunction with hostility and viciousness.
Fresh off her win for Outstanding Costume Design of a Musical at Monday evening’s St.
The New Jewish Theatre picked up where they left off last season with a superior effort resulting in stellar storytelling.
MOVIE MUSIC is an entertaining and sometimes emotional walk down memory lane by three skilled theatrical professionals who know a bit about storytelling.
Jones collaborates with his cast and crew to mount an artful production of Alice Childress’ important story.
This was a dream of an evening of opera! It vastly exceeded expectations.
Albion delivers another first-rate production with MOLLY SWEENEY.
DREAMING OF LEAR is a brilliant, memorable piece of leading-edge experimental theater.
Of the Playwrights included in the Festival, Marilyn Zerlak’s two scripts were the best of the lot.
Winter Opera continues it’s seventeenth season with another iconic operetta—Victor Herbert’s Naughty Marietta.
Company is a fun romp about looking for love in all the wrong places.
Marilyn Maye kept the capacity room leaning into her every note as she allowed her audience to reminisce with medleys of standards from the great American songbook.
All 7 of the plays were tightly directed to create engaging and interesting storytelling using limited set pieces on a nearly empty stage.
Edwards script if filled with humor but it does not shy away from taking on the current realities of unfairness, inequality, and discrimination in the United States today.
Amadeo Fusco is a skilled actor and comedian who has kept decades old material funny and fresh with newer topics that are relevant to today’s relationships, Whether you are single, dating, married, or have been married, Fusco’s humor, wit, and magnetic charm will provide a lot of laughs.
Moonstone’s THE SOUND INSIDE is a well-constructed piece of theatre but has a story that simply did not resonate.
The Rep’s Moby Dick isn’t just a cleverly staged reinvention of a stodgy classic, it’s an emotionally driven theatrical voyage that challenges, engrosses and captivates audiences.
The script is rich with scientific banter, repetitive and very talky.
What did our critic think of HAIRSPRAY at Stifel Theatre?The current national tour of HAIRSRAY is visiting The Stifel Theatre in St.
Well-acted, suspenseful, and filled with vibrant costumes, The Mousetrap once again proves that it’s hard to beat a classic.
Jennings took the stage and playfully launched into an extended version of the Toys ‘R Us jingle to establish the decade of his childhood.
Sara Sheperd is a magnificent singer, actor, and storyteller.
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Ballet Hispánico New York Touhill Performing Arts Center (11/14-11/14) |
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The Nutcracker COCA - Catherine B. Berges Theatre (12/11-12/13) |
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Ludo The Pageant (10/24-10/24) |
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The Book of Mormon (Non-Equity) The Fabulous Fox Theatre (2/02-2/07) |
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Cinderella Opera Theatre of Saint Louis (6/05-6/27) |
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The Book of Mormon (Non-Equity) Fox Theatre (2/02-2/07) |
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Mamma Mia! Fox Theatre (3/30-4/04) |
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The Great American Trailer Park Musical Rehab Bar & Grill (8/19-8/26) |
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Gunhild Carling at City Winery St. Louis City Winery St. Louis (10/11-10/11) |
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What I Did This Summer – September 2, 6-7pm Schroeder Park Amphitheater (9/02-9/02) |
