Our St. Louis Critics
View All »
BWW Review: FIRE SHUT UP IN MY BONES at Opera Theatre St. Louis Captures Your Heart!
Fire Shut Up in My Bones has opened at Opera Theatre St. Louis. It is gorgeous! Deeply intimate and honest, the beautifully told story almost overshadows the music by the great jazz trumpeter Terrence Blanchard....
BWW Review: THE CORONATION OF POPPEA at Opera Theatre Of St. Louis
This baroque masterpiece is gorgeous and disturbing....
BWW Review: THE BOY FROM OZ at Stages St. Louis performed with energy and excitement!
THE BOY FROM OZ brings a new story to the Midwest, and to the audiences of Stages St. Louis. From the reaction of the crowd, it is a must see. It will have you wanting to dance like you were at the Copacabana...and wishing you had worn your feathers and sequins!...
BWW Review: A Glorious RIGOLETTO Opens at Opera Theatre St. Louis
The Opera Theatre of St. Louis continues its 44th festival season of world class opera with a magnificent production of Giuseppe Verdi's Rigoletto. OTSL presented a splendid Rigoletto fourteen years ago, but this production is, I think, even better. It's the best Rigoletto your ever likely to see....
BWW Review: BE MORE CHILL is Cool, Fresh Take on High School Angst
Part awkward teen drama, part eerie sci-fi, Be More Chill with music and lyrics by Joe Iconis and book by Joe Tracz, based on the 2004 young adult novel by Ned Vizzini, is one of the coolest, freshest comedic musicals in years. It already classifies as a cult favorite, and even though it's currently...
BWW Review: FIGARO is Brilliantly Married in St. Louis
Opera Theatre of St. Louis has opened its 44th festival season. This is St. Louis' prized centerpiece of opera, with a world-wide reputation. It is famous for its superb productions. The company's home is the beautiful and comfortable 763-seat Browning Theatre at Webster University. Gourmet picnic s...
BWW Review: I NOW PRONOUNCE is the Wedding That Happened in Spite of Itself
As an audience member at Tasha Gordon-Solmon's dark comedy I Now Pronounce, currently playing at the New Jewish Theatre, you are a guest at the wedding of Nicole and Adam. Or is it Aaron? Or Arthur? Or Anthony? Oh heck, the rabbi can't remember, although he attempts in earnest to list all the things...
BWW Review: COME FROM AWAY Uplifts in Spite of Terror
Making its St. Louis debut at the Fabulous Fox Theatre right now, a commanding drum beat kicks off a high-energy opening number to welcome the audience of Tony award-winning Come From Away: A New Musical. On its first North American tour with a book, music, and lyrics by Irene Sankoff and David Hein...
BWW Review: DEAR MR. WILLIAMS: Bryan Batt Mesmerizes at The Curtain Call Lounge
DEAR MR. WILLIAMS centers on the parallel journeys between Batt and his beloved playwright. Sharing Williams passion for The Big Easy, Batt's metamorphosis from adolescent soccer player to an actor lauded by Helen Hayes is a bumpy coming-of-age story filled that is equally parts hilarious, ironic, t...
BWW Review: THE NIGHT OF THE IGUANA Kicks Off Fourth Annual Tennessee Williams Festival St. Louis
If you know Tennessee Williams, and I hope you do/will, you know there's a lot to unpack in his work. His characters are tormented and textured, plotlines layered with the riddles and aches of the human heart. There's no mercy when Tennessee Williams shines a flashlight into the darkest corners of a...
BWW Review: SALT, ROOT, AND ROE Challenges and Touches with Deeply Moving Performances
The distant sound of Atlantic Ocean waves receive you when you enter the theatre at the Kransberg Arts Center for Salt, Root, and Roe by Tim Price, which is currently making its US premier with Upstream Theater in partnership with Stages Repertory of Houston. When the lights dim, you'll be transport...
BWW Review: MISS SAIGON at FOX THEATRE-Helicopters and Hopelessness Make MISS SAIGON a winner!
After 30 years of tours and a successful run in the West End and on Broadway MISS SAIGON needed a fresh coat of paint. Boy did it sure get one!...
BWW Review: DADDY LONG LEGS Entertains With Delightful Melodies and Old-Fashioned Charm
In the intimate comfort of The Marcelle Theatre right now, you'll find two adjoining playing spaces-a grand library up top, and a bright, sunny room below. This is where an interestingly-constructed little love story comes to life. It is where Jennifer Theby Quinn and Terry Barber deliver a solid pe...
BWW Review: TIME STANDS STILL is Harsh and Tender Contemplation on War and Relationships
An exposed-brick studio apartment in Brooklyn in 2009 is the setting for Time Stands Still, a moving play by Donald Margulies, directed by Doug Finlayson, playing now at The New Jewish Theatre. Romantic partners for 8 ½ years, photojournalist Sarah (Wendy Renee Greenwood) and war correspondent Jame...
BWW Review: THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG is a Perfect Recipe for Hysterical Disaster
A play within a play, The Play that Goes Wrong is the tale of the Cornley University Drama Society which, despite several earlier snags, is opening their 1920s murder mystery, The Murder at Haversham Manor. In the moments just before the show opens, an audience member is recruited to help the tech c...
BWW Review: BEAUTIFUL: THE CAROLE KING MUSICAL is Some Kind of Inspirational Wonderful
You don't even have go in a fan to enjoy Beautiful: The Carole King Musical but once you are at The Fabulous Fox and are reminded of all one woman has accomplished in a lifetime of singer/songwriting, you just may go out humming her entire body of work....
BWW Review: Winter Opera brings Remarkable Voices to the Druidic World of NORMA
Winter Opera has opened a sumptuous production of Norma, Vincenzo Bellini's bel canto masterpiece from 1831....
BWW Review: Clowns' Crude Humor Assaults GLASS MENAGERIE
The Glass Menagerie has been revered by audiences and critics around the world for three-quarters of a century. I suppose that, like all sacred icons, it occasionally should be taken down a peg or two. The very energetically wild folks at Ten Directions have arrived, axes in hand, to have a chop or ...
BWW Review: Boys will be Girls in this Glorious LE CAGE AUX FOLLES
The New Line Theatre is such a reliable source of great musical theater. Now they have opened a very fine production of what, curiously, has become something of a beloved old standard-La Cage aux Folles....
BWW Review: ROCK OF AGES Tenth Anniversary Tour is Ridiculously Rad
If you're a Gen-Xer and/or you've ever belted every totally awesome lyric of a Journey song from the confines of your car and/or you've ever chased a bitchin' dream, you won't want to miss Rock of Ages' one-weekend run at the Fabulous Fox Theatre. Plotted around songs by Styx, Poison, Twisted Sister...
BWW Review: THE HUNDRED DRESSES Addresses Bullying, Friendship, Forgiveness
Adapted by William Kent Williams from Eleanor Estes' 1945 Newbery Honor-winning novel of the same title, The Hundred Dresses is the second play of Metro Theater Company's 46th season. Suitable for young theatre patrons, families, and for educators as well, this is the story of Wanda Petronski (Sophi...
BWW Review: 2017 Tony Winner OSLO Appears at The Rep
2017 Tony Award winner for Best Play, Oslo, by J.T. Rogers, is Repertory Theatre St. Louis' artistic director Steven Woolf's final directing project before his retirement begins. It is the story of the Norwegian couple-an academic and social scientist, Terje, who has developed a new approach to conf...
BWW Review: AVENUE Q is Cheeky, Naughty Puppet Fun
Avenue Q, winner of the 2004 Tony awards for Best Book, Best Musical, and Best Score, makes its Playhouse at Westport Plaza debut, and, although I've seen other fine productions of this musical, Westport is the perfect venue-intimate and cozy-for this beloved brazen show....
BWW Review: New Jewish Opens a Gorgeous DISTRICT MERCHANTS.
The New Jewish Theatre has opened 'District Merchants', by Aaron Posner, and it is certainly among the finest productions I've ever seen there. Posner's script is most remarkably beautiful-it's masterful indeed....
BWW Review: FIDDLER ON THE ROOF at The Fabulous Fox
On a very chilly Tuesday night, Fiddler on the Roof opened and warmed the hearts of the enthusiastic audience at the Fabulous Fox. This Broadway revival was full of new energy and more emotion than expected with this beloved classic....
Videos
|
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee Stages St. Louis at the Kirkwood Performing Arts Center (5/29-6/28) |
|
The Light in the Piazza Loretto-Hilton Center (5/30-6/28) |
|
God of Carnage New Jewish Theatre (NJT) (6/11-6/28) |
|
The Wasp by Morgan Lloyd Malcom Albion Theatre (6/12-6/28) |
|
Wicked Fox Theatre (5/12-5/30) |
|
Mamma Mia! The Fabulous Fox Theatre (3/30-4/04) |
|
The Book of Mormon (Non-Equity) The Fabulous Fox Theatre (2/02-2/07) |
|
Rob Zombie & Marilyn Manson Morton Amphitheater (9/10-9/10) |
|
Robert Nelson Kirkwood Performing Arts Center ( KPAC) (6/16-6/16) |
|
We Will Rock You The Marcelle Theater (6/04-6/27) |
| VIEW ALL SHOWS ADD A SHOW | |