Today is Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Just a quick shout out to remind folks that the second annual St. Lou Fringe is upon us! It starts this Thursday and will run until the 24th in midtown St. Louis. Em Piro, the fe…
Linked From St. Louis Theatre Snob at 03:20AMWhere else can you take in a show and get some laundry done at the same time, I ask you? OnSite's distinctive characteristic is that its shows are staged "on site", and this world prem…
Linked From St. Louis Theatre Snob at 03:17PMStray Dog Theatre really seems to be on a roll. In the past couple of seasons, they've handsomely produced everything from Psycho Beach Party to The Who's Tommy to Spring Awakening and…
Linked From St. Louis Theatre Snob at 09:03PMR-S begins its season with Dan O’Brien's The Cherry Sisters Revisited. The play, inspired by the real-life Cherry Sisters, was part of the 34th Humana Festival of New American Plays …
Linked From St. Louis Theatre Snob at 08:54AMInsight Theatre kicks off its season with a play that, like many Neil Simon plays, is largely autobiographical. Chapter Two, premiering in 1977, chronicles the grief Simon suffered aft…
Linked From St. Louis Theatre Snob at 02:46PMNew Line closes its 22nd season with Bukowsical, another wonderfully executed regional premiere. Charles Bukowski, an American German-born poet, short story writer and novelist, was co…
Linked From St. Louis Theatre Snob at 02:33PMThe Black Rep concludes its 36th season with The Wiz (full title -- The Wiz: The Super Soul Musical "Wonderful Wizard of Oz"), adapted from L. Frank Baum's classic children’s novel and pat…
Linked From St. Louis Theatre Snob at 02:22AMLisa Peterson and Denis O'Hare adapted An Iliad from Homer's epic poem, The Iliad, but the director's notes mention that the two shouldn't be confused. In this powerful production from…
Linked From St. Louis Theatre Snob at 02:06PMPlaywright Jeffrey Hatcher's two-actor, one-act play was inspired by memories of an etiquette class he took as a child. You get a taste of that right off the top during the pre-show an…
Linked From St. Louis Theatre Snob at 01:57PMTalking Heads was originally a series of several monologues, written by British playwright Alan Bennett, for the BBC beginning in 1988. The series was adapted for the stage in 1991 and…
Linked From St. Louis Theatre Snob at 07:37AMNJT's final show of its season is unique. It's a musical adaptation of Isaac B. Singer's Chelm stories -- traditional, typically self-deprecating Jewish folk tales that involve foolish…
Linked From St. Louis Theatre Snob at 07:32AMContemporary life can be smothering sometimes, right? With many of us spending our days tethered to our cellphones and laptops, wouldn't it be nice to live during a time where we weren…
Linked From St. Louis Theatre Snob at 03:44PMReceiving its world premiere at the Black Rep, Smash/Hit!, written by Steve Broadnax and Michael S. Bordner, centers around "Money" (Ronald L. Conner), and his aspirations of making it big o…
Linked From St. Louis Theatre Snob at 03:10AMPlayed out on a minimal set with a couple of stones, a leafless tree, and a backdrop of a blue cloudy sky, Waiting for Godot, as the title suggests, is about these two guys, Vladimir (Gary W…
Linked From St. Louis Theatre Snob at 02:36PMStray Dog continues its trend of not backing away from ambitious shows with its current production, Gypsy -- one of the most highly regarded book musicals in the canon of musical theatr…
Linked From St. Louis Theatre Snob at 01:57AMThis engrossing one-act, one-man show covers a lot of ground. Adapted from the novel “Confession” by Yonatan Ben Nachum, it's based on a true story centering around Andrés Go…
Linked From St. Louis Theatre Snob at 01:48AMOnSite Theatre Company, like the name suggests, specializes in site-specific theatre -- very cool and quite exceptional in the local area. Their latest offering is a world premiere tha…
Linked From St. Louis Theatre Snob at 07:33PMMatthew Lopez's intriguing play about a Jewish family of sorts premiered in 2011 off-Broadway and garnered Lucille Lortel, Obie and Outer Critics Circle Awards, and it's getting a powerful p…
Linked From St. Louis Theatre Snob at 12:57AMHere they are folks, the nominees and award winners for the inaugural St. Louis Theater Circle Awards! (Another organization in town owns the rights to the name "Louie's", so yeah.&nbs…
Linked From St. Louis Theatre Snob at 12:37AMVenus in Fur, under Seth Gordon's flawless direction, is currently searing the Rep's Studio stage. Taking a look at sexual power dynamics with sharp wit, humor and a slightly surreal t…
Linked From St. Louis Theatre Snob at 06:24AMYou know it's a farce when you notice that the set has 6 doors, am I right? This one, written by French playwright Marc Camoletti debuted in 1960's Paris and the translated version cam…
Linked From St. Louis Theatre Snob at 12:11PMNext to Normal had its Broadway debut in 2009 and won three Tony Awards and a Pulitzer Prize for Drama. While it's not exactly your standard musical theatre fare, this hard driving roc…
Linked From St. Louis Theatre Snob at 05:51PMThat Uppity Theatre Company, along with the folks at The Vital VOICE are back with the 2nd Annual installment of Briefs: A Festival of Short LGBT Plays. The plays featured this year (a…
Linked From St. Louis Theatre Snob at 11:44PMI admit -- at one point I doubted that this show would ever come to St. Louis. I saw it a couple of years ago in my favorite city and thought it would be too controversial. But h…
Linked From St. Louis Theatre Snob at 11:37PMHigh camp is in store for those who check out Stray Dog's latest offering, Charles Busch's Psycho Beach Party, that debuted off-Broadway in 1987. This lively romp fuses those old beach…
Linked From St. Louis Theatre Snob at 11:09AMNJT’s third show of its 16th season features its first play by David Mamet -- Speed-the-Plow, directed here by Tim Ocel. Debuting in 1988, this play, as many Mamet plays like Am…
Linked From St. Louis Theatre Snob at 10:49PMChristopher Durang's brief play, Mrs. Sorken, was plucked from a collection of one-act parodies featured in his self-titled, Durang/Durang, and it kicks off the show, serving as nice i…
Linked From St. Louis Theatre Snob at 10:11PMEdward Albee is considered one of this country's most influential playwrights, winning three Pulitzer Prizes for Drama. Who doesn't love Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, right? He…
Linked From St. Louis Theatre Snob at 09:37PMMany of you folks know that the Kevin Kline Awards, part of the Professional Theatre Council of St. Louis (PTC), a local organization formed with the intention of honoring excellen…
Linked From St. Louis Theatre Snob at 03:23AMThe Rep. continues its season with David Lindsay-Abaire's sincere and timely look at the underclass. It centers on Margaret (Denise Cormier), who's a little down on her luck. Not…
Linked From St. Louis Theatre Snob at 03:12AMTalley's Folly, written in 1979 by Lanford Wilson, takes a look at the reunion of an unlikely couple -- a Jewish accountant and a small town girl from Lebanon, Missouri.It's 1944, and Matt F…
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