This, as the opening line of Alabama Story tells us, is a story about two rabbits. It's a story about 1959 Montgomery, where cotton is king, where conservative white men call all the shots, and where books that might be about integration are censored. It is a battle of wills between a segregationist... (more...)
Anyone familiar with the Tony-Award-winning musical adaptation of Victor Hugo's novel Les Miserables knows it is a grand indulgence for the eyes, ears, and mind. The Cameron Mackintosh and Networks touring production (with new staging and reimagined scenery inspired by the paintings of Victor Hugo!)... (more...)
Four years ago the New Jewish Theatre offered a side-splitting evening of 'Four Old Jews Telling Jokes'; now they offer 'An Act of God'. Once again it's an evening of stand-up comedy. So, who do you think could tell a joke better than an old Borscht-Belt Jewish comic? Do I hear you cry, 'Nobody!'? W... (more...)
Whether you're 7 or 107, Philip Grecian's adaptation of the 1983 cult classic film, A Christmas Story, will likely tickle your funny bone and get you reminiscing about holidays past. You'll be greeted at your seat by evocative Christmas carols and a stage flanked with decked-out trees and shiny, wra... (more...)
Based on the classic Charles Dickens novel, the Nebraska Theatre Caravan's touring production of the musical A Christmas Carol opened for this weekend only on December 6 at The Fox. It is the moving tale of Ebenezer Scrooge, whose devotion to his money interferes with his ability to make meaningful ... (more...)
You only have two more chances to see Rebel and Misfits' Macbeth: Come Like Shadows, directed by Sean Patrick Higgins and Kelly Hummert, and even in a city of generous theatre offerings, you will probably not have the opportunity to see anything else quite like this. Not anytime soon anyway. Cancel ... (more...)
Admissions, a brand-new dramedy by playwright Joshua Harmon, provides a timely and realistic view into contemporary upper-middle-class liberalism, with its barbed humor and challenging subject matter.... (more...)
Lauren Gunderson's Silent Sky is the factual story of astronomer Henrietta Leavitt, whose turn-of-the-century career had an important effect on science and discovery throughout the 20th and into the 21st centuries.... (more...)
Variety Theatre presented their production of Disney's The Little Mermaid at the Blanche M. Touhill Performing Arts from October 18th thru 21st. This performance celebrated the 10th Anniversary of Variety Theatre, the country's only production of its kind that features Variety children with disabi... (more...)
Chef, a play by UK/Egyptian playwright Sabrina Mahfouz and winner of the 2014 Fringe First Award at the Edinburgh Festival, made its U.S. premier at Upstream Theatre, opening the 2018-19 season. Linda Kennedy starred in this one-woman show, directed by renowned Swiss director Marianne de Pury.... (more...)
A scandalous drama is still politically potent after 139 years! When Nora Helmer slammed that door in 1879 she told the world that her duty to herself was greater than her duty to her family. Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House has been an iconic inspiration to generations of second-wave feminists. In ... (more...)
As the story goes in Gilbert & Sullivan's 1879 operetta, The Pirates of Penzance, Frederic the pirate has just been released from his indenture to a comical band of soft-hearted pirates when he meets Mabel, the daughter of Major-General Stanley, and falls in love. As the story also goes, in 2013, Ne... (more...)
Lillian Hellman's 1939 drama, The Little Foxes, is a well-made drama about Southern aristocratic avarice and female suppression. When brothers Oscar (Bob Gerchen) and Ben (Chuck Brinkley) Giddens-who have inherited the whole of their father's fortune-go to their sister Regina (Kari Ely) needing mone... (more...)
Oh, what a beautiful production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma!, directed by Michael Hamilton with choreography by Dana Lewis, musical direction by Lisa Campbell Albert, and orchestral design by Stuart M. Elmore.
In fact, Stages St. Louis knocks it clear out of the pasture with this final s... (more...)
The St. Louis Opera Collective is an adventurous tiny company that brings us chamber operas. Their current offering at the Kranzberg Studio is Three Decembers, with music by Jake Heggie and libretto by Gene Scheer.... (more...)
I first saw Paula Stoff perform-oh, years ago¬-in a revue by the Non-Prophet Theatre. They had some fine local talent who were performing very well indeed. But when Paula stepped into the spot-light and sang I swallowed my gum! What in the world was this Broadway talent doing with this tiny compa... (more...)
Jean-Paul Sartre's iconic play 'No Exit' is receiving a solid production under the aegis of the Slightly Askew Theatre Ensemble (SATE). It's directed by Bess Moynihan and uses a fresh new translation by Alyssa Ward.... (more...)
Lonely woman finds true love in sunny, romantic, magical Italy! It's an all-too-familiar trope in films. It's happened to Kate (and Audrey) Hepburn, to Marisa Tomei, to Renee Zelwigger, to Miranda Richardson and others.... (more...)
Stray Dog Theatre, August 3-18, 2018
Stray Dog Theatre has opened that strange, hilarious, almost surrealistic hoot of a show, The Robber Bridegroom.... (more...)
Meet Me In St. Louis is the picture-perfect nostalgic closer for The Muny's centennial season, a romantic musical based on the 1944 film that follows the Smith family through 1903 and into the new year as they await the opening of the 1904 World's Fair. The plot is a bit old fashioned by modern stan... (more...)
In Will Eno's Drama Desk Award-winning The Realistic Joneses, we meet Bob (Alan Knoll) and Jennifer Jones (Laurie McConnell), whose young new neighbors John (Isaiah Di Lorenzo) and Pony Jones (Kelly Hummert) infiltrate their lives with normalized erraticism that is darkly funny, dry at times, and su... (more...)
Mamma Mia! is an entertaining musical experience at any venue, with any cast, but Stages St. Louis' production is an especially satiating late-summer treat, featuring a rockin' beach party atmosphere and all the chart-topping ABBA hits you know, including "Dancing Queen," "Winner Takes It All," "Tak... (more...)
BWW Review: THE WOLVES Score Big at the St. Louis Rep
BWW Review: ALABAMA STORY Explores Censorship and Racism, Makes One Laugh and Think
BWW Review: LES MISERABLES Dazzles at The Fabulous Fox
BWW Review: God Takes Center Stage at the New Jewish Theatre
BWW Review: A CHRISTMAS STORY Relishes and Reveres Holidays of Old
BWW Review: A CHRISTMAS CAROL Warms Hearts and Reminds that Giving > Receiving
MACBETH: COME LIKE SHADOWS Is a Wild, Wonderful Immersion
BWW Review: ADMISSIONS Educates Audiences With Examination of White Privilege
BWW Review: SILENT SKY Twinkles Brightly, Shines Light on History
BWW Review: DISNEY'S THE LITTLE MERMAID by Variety Theatre
BWW Review: CHEF Opens Season at Upstream With All the Right Ingredients
BWW Review: St. Louis Repertory Theater Presents A DOLL'S HOUSE, PART 2
BWW Review: THE ZOMBIES OF PENZANCE Breathes New Life and Steals Hearts at The Marcelle
BWW Review: THE LITTLE FOXES Illuminates Aristocracy, Greed at St. Louis Actors' Studio
BWW Review: 75th Anniversary Production of OKLAHOMA! at Stages St. Louis is a Bang-Up, Boot-Stompin' Good Time
BWW Review: A Dark Story And Bright Music In THREE DECEMBERS At The Kranzberg
BWW Review: Paula Stoff Dean Brings Bright Cabaret to The Monocle
BWW Review: 'KING CHARLES III' Probes Royal Power at the Ivory
BWW Review: SArTrE! 'No Exit' brings Hell to the Chapel.
BWW Review: THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA at R-S Theatrics
BWW Review: A Powerful Production of Weill's 'Lost in the Stars' Closes Union Avenue's Season
BWW Review: Stray Dog's 'Robber Bridegroom' Is A Hoot!
BWW Review: MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS Trollies The Muny Into Its Next 100
BWW Review: THE REALISTIC JONESES Questions Imperfect Realities, Mortality, and More
BWW Review: MAMMA MIA! Sparkles and Shimmers at Stages St. Louis
