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Review: DIE ZAUBERFLOTE at Winter Opera
Winter Opera rounds out its 18th season with a splendid production of Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute). This is perhaps the most popular opera in the world, and it is an all-round challenge for any company—vocally and technically....
Review: 2025 SPECTRUM: A PRESENTATION OF SHORT PLAYS Presented by First Run Theatre At The Chapel
First Run Theatre’s evening of short plays is always a wonderful opportunity to hear the emerging voices of newer playwrights and see their new works. Six playwrights from Illinois, Kansas, and Missouri are featured in First Run Theatre’s “2025 Spectrum: A Presentation of Short Plays.” The F...
Review: THE CURIOUS SAVAGE at Tower Groves Abbey
Money meets mental illness in Stray Dog Theatre’s enjoyable The Curious Savage. The opening production of the company’s 23rd season was written by John Patrick who brought it to the New York stage in 1950....
Review: SHUCKED at the Fabulous Fox Theatre
Well-acted and utterly fun, Shucked lives up to the hype. The straightforward plot relies on shrewdly timed jokes, jangly music and polished wordplay, sprinkled with social commentary, to provide laughs and moments of endearment....
Review: CONSTELLATIONS at West End Players Guild is a Bittersweet Nugget of Relationship Reality
West End Players Guild’s production of CONSTELLATIONS is a bittersweet dose of reality. It is a relationship story more than a love story. Payne examines how we react to two things in life, our partner’s behaviors and what the fates hand us. No one can predict when, or if, life will bring happi...
Review: The St Louis Premiere of COCONUT CAKE at The Black Rep is a Sweet Slice of Theater
COCONUT CAKE is a character driven play that examines how the choices we make in the short term impacts our long-term wellbeing. It is a superbly constructed play with surprising reveals that are neither illogical nor unexpected. Beaty’s play is packed with immense honesty. Jones and his talented...
Review: Redemption is On the Menu at The Rep's CLYDE'S
This moving piece of theater, which features an extremely talented ensemble, is an uplifting, and terse story about resilience, community, and the importance of finding joy in the most unexpected places....
Review: LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT at St Louis Actors’ Studio
This is an elegant production of LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT with a touch of surrealism. The creative team have taken O’Neill’s story and leaned into quaint imagery to enhance the story telling. Doggett’s period costumes designs are elevated by her tailoring and sumptuous fabric choic...
Review: NEW WORKS COLLECTIVE at Opera Theatre Of Saint Louis
Opera Theatre of Saint Louis has a rich history in world premiers, often commissioning new works from significant composers and librettists. But it seeks to foster brand new talents too. Its New Works Collective is a three-year project wherein each year OTSL commits to developing and producing t...
Review: THE PAVEMENT KINGDOM: A CLINIC ESCORT PLAY and THE BIGFOOT DIARIES
Two of St. Louis’ most creative playwriting voices premiered new plays this weekend at Greenfinch Theater and Dive Bar. Courtney Bailey is arguably the most talented playwright in St. Louis creating new works. Her new one-act play, THE PAVEMENT KINGDOM: A CLINIC ESCORT PLAY, shared a double bill w...
Review: PICTURES FROM A REVOLUTION at Upstream Theater
This show continues Upstream's bold tradition of exciting world theater....
Review: ATHENA at Emerson Studio In The Loretto-Hilton Center
Poignant and empowering Athena is thoroughly engaging and engrossing. This is a well-acted theater experience dig beneath the surface of a centuries old sport to expose a world where comradery and competition both have a price....
Review: CHICKEN AND BISCUITS at The Black Rep is A Funny Look at a Dysfunctional Family Gathering to Bury a Loved One
Douglas Lyons' CHICKEN AND BISCUITS is funny family dramedy that shows how love, loss, and grief can unite a family. The Black Rep’s production is packed with plenty of laughs and a bit of drama. Ron Himes’ fine direction and the cast’s spirited performances create a relatable family who love ...
Review: BELL, BOOK AND CANDLE at Tower Groves Abbey
Playing on themes of love, power, and the supernatural, Bell, Book and Candle is an excellent season closer for Stray Dog Theatre. Funny, spooky and enchanting, the play is well-acted and impeccably paced. Its portrayal of relationship dynamics and each character’s need for credence make it an int...
Review: MILLION DOLLAR QUARTER CHRISTMAS at Loretto-Hilton Center
Filled with smiles and dancing in the aisles, Million Dollar Quartet Christmas is a chart-topping knockout. The show reflects on the travails of fame and celebrates the season with an irresistible vivacity....
Review: Roxie Has Moxy! CHICAGO at the Fox Theatre, St. Louis
The perfect synergy of sight, sound, song and dance, Chicago is gloriously glamourous, grimy and cheeky. Murder and mayhem has never been this much fun!...
Review: A CHRISTMAS CAROL: THE REMIX is a Hip Hop Holiday Gift
A CHRISTMAS CAROL: THE REMIX is a fantastically creative retelling of the Dickensian tale. It is an outrageous theatrical event that adds up to high energy imaginative story telling. A couple moments in the show that feel a bit one-note and repetitive when the narrative goes on a little too long, ...
Review: THE THANKSGIVING PLAY at Washington University Performing Arts
'The Thanksgiving Play' directed by Andrea Urice at Wash U was a total delight!...
Review: FIRST DATE at New Jewish Theatre
New Jewish Theatre's current production of FIRST DATE features a terrific cast in sublime comedic performances. Director Lee Ann Mathews and her company of seven clever actors fearlessly dive into physical comedy to create an entertaining show that is light, zany, and funny. It certainly isn’t a ...
Review: THE BUTCHER OF BARABOO at Union Avenue Christian Church
“The Butcher of Baraboo” is a grim dark comedy that spirals into complete brutality. The characters are willing to go to extreme measures to protect themselves and their secrets. The is no familial loyalty among this group of vicious characters. The West End Players Guild has staged a cutting pr...
Review: DON’T BE A HERO, THANK YOU and GO BEFORE I DO at Greenfinch Theater and Dive Bar
“Don’t Be a Hero, Thank You” is a one-act play that takes a humorous look at the challenges faced by the fictional Kate following her release from prison for a felony conviction after robbing a bank. The narrative is comprised mostly as a single-person monologue that is interrupted by phone ca...
Review: ANASTASIA THE MUSICAL at The Marcelle
Credit director Brittanie Gunn for Tesseract Theatre’s extraordinary production of ANASTASIA. Gunn’s vision and her collaboration with her actors and technical teams has created an extravagant production with outstanding performances, sensational singing, exhilarating dancing, and absorbing sto...
Review: ELEPHANTS’ GRAVEYARD Looks Death in the Eye and Laughs
ELEPHANTS' GRAVEYARD is a lovely piece of writing. It doesn’t wallow in sadness or pathos. It looks death in the eye and laughs. Corbett, Meyer, and Rausch have given the world premiere of ELEPHANTS' GRAVEYARD a beautiful staging. Williamson’s salubrious script proves that when facing even the g...
Review: WOLF KINGS at The Chapel
“Wolf Kings” is more performance art than a play. The snappy banter is often witty and funny. The vivacious movement is dance-like. There are elements that are peculiar, comedic, and dramatic. It condemns predatory behavior though spectacle by granting victims strength. Its thought-provoking mes...
Review: WOLF KINGS at Young Liars
It’s a headlong dive into a fiercely black, wildly comic nightmare. It’s a venture into betrayal and menace and sex and chaos, and into the unplumbed depths of the psyche. It’s Wolf Kings, the Young Liars’ remarkable new piece now playing at The Chapel....
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The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee Stages St. Louis at the Kirkwood Performing Arts Center (5/29-6/28) |
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God of Carnage New Jewish Theatre (NJT) (6/11-6/28) |
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The Light in the Piazza Loretto-Hilton Center (5/30-6/28) |
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The Wasp by Morgan Lloyd Malcom Albion Theatre (6/12-6/28) |
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Ludo The Pageant (10/24-10/24) |
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Jake’s Leg - June 27, 7:30pm The Wildey (6/27-6/27) |
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USAF Band of Mid-America “Freedom 250” Concert Faust Park (7/07-7/07) |
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Guns N’ Roses at Busch Stadium Busch Stadium (8/16-8/16) |
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Rob Zombie & Marilyn Manson Morton Amphitheater (9/10-9/10) |
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Robert Nelson Kirkwood Performing Arts Center ( KPAC) (6/16-6/16) |
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