Road trip!!OAT's season closer, "Into the Woods", was inspired by Bruno Bettelheim's 1976 book, The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales. In Sondheim and Lapine's 1987 Tony award winning morality tale, familiar storybook characters, along with a few new ones, venture into a dark forest for different reasons. They may be known from children's stories, but these woods -- an allegor…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 02:05AM on August 7, 2013