KIRKWOOD PERFORMING ARTS CENTER

by Team BWW - April 01, 2024

In 2024, Stages St. Louis celebrates its 38th season of producing Broadway-quality theater at The Ross Family Theatre in the Kirkwood Performing Arts Center....

by Steve Callahan - March 18, 2024

This was a dream of an evening of opera! It vastly exceeded expectations....

by Steve Callahan - March 11, 2024

Winter Opera continues it’s seventeenth season with another iconic operetta—Victor Herbert’s Naughty Marietta.  This lovely old show premiered in 1910. It was produced by the first Oscar Hammerstein (the grandfather of you-know-who).  In 1935 a movie version was made—with Jeanette MacDonald and Nels...

by Stephi Wild - February 20, 2024

The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis’ Imaginary Theatre Company will present theater for young people and their families with performances of an adaptation of the classic children’s fairy tale Puss in Boots....

by James Lindhorst - December 14, 2023

This past year was a spectacular season for theatre in St. Louis. Forbes magazine recognized St. Louis as having “America’s most exciting emerging arts district.” The article credits the The Kranzberg Foundation for buying and operating spaces where artists can create. Many of the smaller theatre co...

by Steve Callahan - November 20, 2023

The wonderful Winter Opera has opened a quite splendid production of what has been called “the opera of all operas”—Mozart’s amazing Don Giovanni....

by James Lindhorst - September 14, 2023

STAGES St. Louis has resurrected the spirits of Elvis, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins and Jerry Lee Lewis in a dazzling, high energy and flashy production of MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET. This show is musical theatre perfection from top to bottom. The performances are spectacular. The musicianship is masterful...

by James Lindhorst - July 29, 2023

St. Louis Stages is producing their first play in decades with their astonishing, brilliant and comical production of CLUE. The dictionary doesn’t hold enough superlatives to describe the superb quality of this production. This review is going to sound cliché in its description but be assured that a...

by James Lindhorst - July 09, 2023

Moonstone Theatre Company’s production of THE NERD is a riotous fun time thanks to swift direction and the cast’s ability to execute on slapstick comedy with impeccable timing. Director Gary Wayne Barker juices ever last laugh from the script. His vision and blocking extracts performances of sharp p...

by Chloe Rabinowitz - July 05, 2023

STAGES St. Louis has revealed the full cast of the farcical murder-mystery, Clue - performing July 21 - August 20 at The Ross Family Theatre at the Kirkwood Performing Arts Center. ...