Critic James Lindhorst's Best of St. Louis Theatre in 2025
by James Lindhorst - December 15, 2025
This past season was the year of the comedy in St. Louis Theater. Companies across the city had audiences laughing all season long with slapstick, farce, and satire. There were some wonderful musical productions that really sang, a few hard hitting dramas, but comedies reigned in both quantity and q...
Union Avenue Opera Launches Inaugural One-Act Festival
by Stephi Wild - September 23, 2025
Union Avenue Opera will launch its first-ever One-Act Festival, a bold new fall initiative that brings two powerful contemporary operas to the stage: As One and dwb (driving while black). ...
Review: SALOME at Union Avenue Opera
by Steve Callahan - August 18, 2025
Kelly Slawson brings a dazzlingly powerful, beautiful voice to the title role. It’s an unforgettable triumph in a real tour de force....
Union Avenue Opera To Launch Inaugural One-Act Festival This October
by A.A. Cristi - August 07, 2025
Union Avenue Opera will present its inaugural One-Act Festival October 10–12, 2025, featuring dwb (driving while black) and As One. Both contemporary works explore themes of identity, injustice, and transformation, followed by audience talk-backs with artists and guests....
Union Avenue Opera To Conclude 31st Season With Strauss’ SALOME
by A.A. Cristi - August 06, 2025
Union Avenue Opera will close its 31st Festival Season with Richard Strauss’ explosive masterwork Salome, presented August 15, 16, 22, and 23 at 8:00 p.m. at Union Avenue Christian Church in St. Louis.
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Review: 'JOSEPHINE' & 'PAGLIACCI' at Union Avenue Opera
by Steve Callahan - July 28, 2025
A powerful double-bill. 'Josephine' is a stunning mini-biography of a great star; 'Pagliacci' is an overpoweringly passionate step into verismo opera....
Union Avenue Opera to Present JOSEPHINE and PAGLIACCI in Double Bill
by A.A. Cristi - July 10, 2025
Union Avenue Opera will continue its 2025 Festival Season with a compelling double bill that explores identity, performance, and emotional truth: Tom Cipullo’s Josephine and Ruggero Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci....
Review: MY FAIR LADY at Union Avenue Opera
by Steve Callahan - July 10, 2025
Read our review of MY FAIR LADY, playing now at Union Avenue Opera through July 12. This beloved musical has everything going for it: absolutely captivating melodies by Frederick Lowe, lovely clever lyrics by Alan Lerner, and plenty still of the incomparable wit of that old master George Bernard Sha...
Feature: The Muny’s 30 Nods Leads the St Louis Theater Circle Awards Nominations
by James Lindhorst - February 04, 2025
The St. Louis Theater Circle has announced their 2025 nominations for their annual awards. Each year, the Circle honors excellence in professional theater with awards in 34 categories for producing, directing, acting, and technical theatre. This year The Muny leads all companies with 30 nominations ...
Past Shows
One-Act Festival
10/10 - 10/12/2025
Union Avenue Opera extends its offerings into the fall with the debut of its One-Act Festival, running October 10 and 11 at 7:30 PM and ...
Salome
8/15 - 8/23/2025
Salome is a dark and provocative opera centered on the biblical story of King Herod's stepdaughter and her obsessive desire for John the Baptist (Jochanaan). ...
Josephine and Pagliacci
7/25 - 8/2/2025
Presented together, Josephine and Pagliacci explore the complex interplay between performance and personal turmoil. In Josephine , Tom Cipullo brings to life the intimate reflections ...
My Fair Lady
7/5 - 7/12/2025
My Fair Lady follows the journey of Eliza Doolittle, a Cockney flower girl who becomes the subject of a social experiment by Professor Henry Higgins, ...
Into The Woods
8/16 - 8/24/2024
What happens when fairy tales collide in a dark and twisted forest? Join Cinderella, Jack, Little Red Riding Hood, Rapunzel and more as they cross ...
Into the Woods
8/16 - 8/24/2024
Join Cinderella, Jack, Little Red Riding Hood, Rapunzel and more as they cross paths with a baker and his wife on their quest through the ...
Aida In Concert
7/26 - 8/3/2024
Witness one of opera’s most epic stories of passion, betrayal, and war. Behold the tragic romance of Aida, an Ethiopian princess enslaved by the Egyptians, ...
Carmen
7/5 - 7/13/2024
Set your passions alight with this steamy opera full of love, seduction, and betrayal. Follow the fate of Don José, a naïve soldier who falls ...
A Little Night Music
8/19 - 8/27/2022
Lovers reunite, passions reignite, and new romance blossoms in the magic of music on a mid-summers night. A Little Night Music explores the tangled web ...
Glory Denied
8/16 - 8/24/2019
Union Avenue Opera presents Tom Cipullos Glory DeniedFour Performances: August 17, 18, 23, 24 at 8:00 p.m.Based on the novel Glory Denied by Tom PhilpottPresented ...
La bohème
7/26 - 8/3/2019
Union Avenue Opera presents Puccinis La bohmeFour Performances: July 26, 27, August 2, 3 at 8:00 p.m.Presented in Italian with English supertitlesJoin the Bohemian Revolution ...
Candide
7/5 - 7/13/2019
Union Avenue Opera presents Bernsteins Candide (Scottish Opera Version)Four Performances: July 5, 6, 12, 13 at 8:00 p.m.Presented in English with English supertitlesWar! Earthquakes! Disease! ...
Das Rheingold
8/17 - 8/25/2012
A saga of epic proportion replete with giants, gods, goddesses and a dragon, Das Rheingold opens in the waters of the river Rhine, where three ...
Un ballo in maschera
6/29 - 7/7/2012
Accompanied by a thrilling score, Verdi’s vivid characters grapple with life and love, betrayal and death. Witness the mystery and intrigue that stems from Riccardo ...
Videos
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Mrs. Krishnan's Party
The Repertory Theatre of Saint Louis (1/14 - 2/8) | |
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The Enigmatist
The Repertory Theatre of Saint Louis (3/11 - 4/5) | |
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The Addams Family
Catherine B. Berges Theatre at COCA (8/7 - 8/8) | |
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St. Louis Blues - Call It Love!
Blanche M. Touhill Performing Arts Center (2/14 - 2/14) | |
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Don Was and the Pan-Detroit Ensemble January 24, 8pm
The Wildey (1/24 - 1/24) | |
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Guns N’ Roses at Busch Stadium
Busch Stadium (8/16 - 8/16) | |
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The Ugly Duckling
The Repertory Theatre of Saint Louis (3/28 - 3/28) | |
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She Kills Monsters: Young Adventurers Edition
COCA - Catherine B. Berges Theatre (4/10 - 4/11) | |
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