Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Talking 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 07:37AMMonday, May 20, 2013
NJT'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 07:32AMSaturday, May 11, 2013
Contemporary 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 03:44PMWednesday, May 1, 2013
Receiving 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 03:10AMTuesday, April 23, 2013
Played 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 02:36PMSaturday, April 13, 2013
Stray 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 01:57AMTuesday, April 9, 2013
This 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 01:48AMThursday, April 4, 2013
OnSite 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 07:33PMTuesday, March 26, 2013
Matthew 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 12:57AMWednesday, March 20, 2013
Here 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 12:37AMSunday, March 17, 2013
Venus 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 06:24AMTuesday, March 12, 2013
You 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 12:11PMTuesday, March 5, 2013
Next 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 05:51PMSaturday, March 2, 2013
That 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 11:44PMTuesday, February 26, 2013
I 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 11:37PMSaturday, February 16, 2013
High 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 11:09AMSaturday, February 9, 2013
NJT’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 10:49PMThursday, January 31, 2013
Christopher 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 10:11PMWednesday, January 23, 2013
Edward 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 09:37PMSunday, January 20, 2013
Many 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 03:23AMThursday, January 17, 2013
The 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 03:12AMFriday, December 21, 2012
Talley'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…
Linked From St. Louis Theatre Snob at 07:29AMThursday, December 13, 2012
If you've never heard of Harry Potter, you may need to get out more. Suffice it to say that the series of Harry Potter books and the resulting eight films have become a cultural icon.&…
Linked From St. Louis Theatre Snob at 12:57AMSunday, December 9, 2012
Larry Shue's 1984 play is a charming, funny, feel-good affair, perfect for the holiday season, and it's currently getting a splendid production at the Rep, under Edward Stern's spot-on direc…
Linked From St. Louis Theatre Snob at 12:43AMTuesday, December 4, 2012
Many of the plays written by Charles Busch are well known for their inclination toward high camp, in which he is frequently featured in drag playing the leading lady. The Divine Sister…
Linked From St. Louis Theatre Snob at 12:21AMWednesday, November 21, 2012
The source material for this play, a novel written in 2010 by Matt Mikalatos, has been adapted for the stage by Mustard Seed's artistic director and director of this play, Deanna Jent, and i…
Linked From St. Louis Theatre Snob at 11:35AMThursday, November 15, 2012
Chloë Moss based her 2010 play on research she did while volunteering at Cookham Wood prison in Kent, England, but in This Wide Night, prison time is only briefly mentioned -- it doesn't fo…
Linked From St. Louis Theatre Snob at 05:10AMTuesday, October 30, 2012
Anytime anyone says in a voice laced with anxiety, "Did you see the family moving in next door?", you always have an idea of where it's gonna go, right? You know what I'm talking about…
Linked From St. Louis Theatre Snob at 10:01PMWednesday, October 24, 2012
C.P. Taylor's 1981 play is tough to categorize. Some consider it a play. Others, a play with music, and some consider it a musical comedy, but the subject matter is anything but …
Linked From St. Louis Theatre Snob at 03:39AMMonday, October 15, 2012
Neil Simon's Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning play is considered by many to be one of his best, and it's currently receiving a wonderfully heartfelt production opening the 16th season a…
Linked From St. Louis Theatre Snob at 09:11AMMonday, October 8, 2012
Navigating those prickly adolescent years can be a real bitch, and bruises can be hard to avoid -- psychological or otherwise. These perennial rocky roads are explored in Stray Dog The…
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