The Mercy Seat is a voyeuristic look at less-than-stellar people who contemplate taking advantage of a dire situation for their own selfish motives. Director John Pierson tells a compelling but uncomfortable story of self-centered opportunism. Actors Franklin Killian and Kelly Schneider inhabit flaw…
The Color Purple is a mid-tier movies-to-musical adaptation that falls just short of becoming a classic. Brenda Russell, Allee Willis, and Stephen Bray’s score is competent but uneven. However, Marsha Norman’s book and her message of resilience, self-actualization, liberation, and reclamation re…
Confetti Kids addresses a serious health crisis. The contaminated Coldwater Creek has been associated with increased cancer risks and premature mortality. Aurora Behlke’s script effectively examines the risks associated with nuclear research and the safe handling of nuclear waste. Behlke’s play …
Director Rob Ruggiero, his cast, and the technical design teams deliver a rollicking comedy with a relentless stream of laughs. Everything about this production screams big budget musical comedy. The performances are first rate from the multitalented ensemble. The Muny’s Something Rotten is a ramb…
Astounding tenor brings the house down!…
Intense, poignant, and painted with shades of grey, Extremities, the latest production from Stray Dog Theatre, is psychological drama at its best. Well-acted and fraught with moral ambiguity, the company’s latest production is compelling and evocative. Suspensefully relentless, William Mastrosimon…
Meet Me in St. Louis is exactly what you hope, want, and expect from a stage adaptation of the classic movie musical. What makes this Muny staging special are the wonderful portrayals, the beautiful set, video, and costume designs, and the many nostalgic nods to St. Louis.…
New Jewish Theatre’s production of JOB a visceral theatrical experience. It is a turbulent psychological drama with unexpected twists and turns. Director Annamaria Pileggi and actors John Contini and Kristen Lintvedt capture all of the heightened drama in Friedman’s riveting script.…
In her program notes, Director Rebekah Scallet makes no apologies for staging what is often called Shakespeare’s weakest play. She has found a charming and playful way to present The Two Gentlemen of Verona for maximal audience enjoyment. There were plenty of bursts of laughter throughout and the …
Eno’s end of life play is thoughtful and funny while avoiding morbidity. There is no fourth wall. The direct address monologue is a unique narrative structure that is rarely used by playwrights, but a style of storytelling that’s often staged by The Midnight Company (Thom Pain, The Absolute Brig…
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7:30 pm Thurs-Sat 2:00 pm Sunday matinees Jessica Johns Kelly directs TERMS OF ENDEARMENT July 23-Aug 2, 2026 Aurora, a widowed and controlling mother, and Emma, her feisty and independent daughter, have a close but often strained relationship, connected by frequent phone calls...
Thurs-Sat 7:30 pm Sunday matinees 2:00 pm Adapted from Don Miguel de Cervantes’ classic Spanish novel, Don Quixote , MAN OF LA MANCHA is wonderfully theatrical, funny, and uplifting. The inspirational Tony Award-winning musical about one man’s refusal to give up on his...
THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL Directed by Heather Sartin, Oct 9-19, 2025 The intrigues of such aptly named characters as Lady Sneerwell, Sir Joseph Surface, Lady Candour, and Sir Benjamin Backbite have amused audiences for more than two centuries. The invention of Irish-born playwright...
Adapted by Terry Johnson based on the novel by Charles Webb and the motion picture screenplay by Calder Willingham and Buck Henry, directed by Rob Corbett. Benjamin Braddock, a disillusioned college graduate with no well-defined aim in life, is seduced by an older married woman...
Directed by Ken Clark. While the Endicott family struggle to make ends meet after the death of their beloved husband and father, they learn that their wealthy, spinster Aunt Caroline plans to cheat them out of their inheritance. It is soon revealed that a member of the family...
Directed by Mark A. Neels. Reverend T. Lawrence Shannon is a minister recently fallen from grace and expelled from his congregation for a "nervous breakdown," who travels to 1940s Mexico to work as a travel guide. Among his group of tourists, however, is a 16-year-old girl...
Directed by Heather Sartin, with an all-female cast! Written between 1601-1602, the second play in Shakespeare’s Shipwreck Trilogy, “Twelfth Night” remains one of the Bard’s most familiar and best- loved comedies. Sword fights, long lost twins, singing, dancing, and yellow socks...
Clayton Community Theatre presents The Laramie Project by Moisés Kaufman and the members of the Tectonic Theatre Project, directed by Jim Danek. This play dramatizes the reaction to the 1998 murder of gay University of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard, one of the pivotal crimes...
Clayton Community Theatre (CCT - www.placeseveryone.org) will open its 2017-2018 season with “Two Trains Running” by August Wilson, directed by Nada Vaughn. Performances: October 12-22, 2017 (Thursdays-Sundays) at Washington University South Campus Theatre, 6501 Clayton Rd...
In Garson Kanin’s pointed and hilarious Born Yesterday, shady scrap metal king Harry Brock heads to Washington, D.C., determined to take the town by storm and buy his way to a business-friendly Amendment. Harry’s only liability is the socially inappropriate behaviour and...
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Rockin Chair Kirkwood Performing Arts Center (9/25-9/25) |
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The Nutcracker COCA - Catherine B. Berges Theatre (12/11-12/13) |
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2026 A. E. Hotchner Playwriting Festival A.E. Hotchner Studio Theatre (9/19-9/20) |
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Gunhild Carling at City Winery St. Louis City Winery St. Louis (10/11-10/11) |
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Rocky Horror Picture Show Original Cast Spooktacular Tour with Barry Bostwick, Nell Campbell, and Patricia Quinn The Fabulous Fox Theatre (10/06-10/06) |
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Parsons Dance Touhill Performing Arts Center (4/10-4/10) |
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Ballet Hispánico New York Touhill Performing Arts Center (11/14-11/14) |
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Cinderella Opera Theatre of Saint Louis (6/05-6/27) |
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Gateway Dirt Nationals – 3 Day Pass The Dome at America's Center (12/03-12/05) |
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Mamma Mia! Fox Theatre (3/30-4/04) |
