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Monday, August 7, 2017

New Line's 'Out on Broadway' returns with songs old and new by Judith Newmark St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Revue presents show tunes from the viewpoints of five gay men

SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 10:12PM[SHARE]

Stray Dog continues its Ibsen probe next season by Judith Newmark St. Louis Post-Dispatch

'Hedda Gabler' highlights a season of musicals, drama and comedy

SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 10:12PM[SHARE]
Saturday, August 5, 2017

'Ragtime' shows America through three lenses by Judith Newmark St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Stray Dog's musical reveals current issues from a historic perspective

SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 02:33PM[SHARE]

Have $15,000? This Muny prop could be yours by Judith Newmark St. Louis Post-Dispatch

A big piece of 'All Shook Up' can live on in your back yard

SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 02:33PM[SHARE]
Thursday, August 3, 2017

National theater group honors Ron Himes by Judith Newmark St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Himes leads the troupe he founded into Season 41

SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 12:18PM[SHARE]

New Line offers subscriptions for its coming season by Judith Newmark St. Louis Post-Dispatch

An accused ax-murderer, sophisticates on holiday and primitive life forms will sing and dance at the edgy musical troupe

SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 12:18PM[SHARE]
Monday, July 31, 2017
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Saturday, July 29, 2017
Friday, July 28, 2017

2017 Rising Stars: Director Lucy Cashion favors a nontraditional approach to the classics by Judith Newmark St. Louis Post-Dispatch

A "Macbeth" where members of the audience take their seats around the nightmare banquet table. An "Oedipus" with a big, steampunk-esque machine rolling its way toward inevitable tragedy. A "…

SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 01:36AM[SHARE]
Wednesday, July 19, 2017

Corinne Melançon tries on another character at Stages St. Louis by Judith Newmark St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Corinne Melançon returns to the theater she thinks of as her second home

SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 09:18PM[SHARE]
Saturday, July 15, 2017

'Unsinkable Molly Brown': Her truth is better than fiction by Judith Newmark St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Writer Dick Scanlan revises a musical to emphasize its heroine's real life

SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 11:04PM[SHARE]
Friday, July 14, 2017

Filled with songs we already love, Muny's 'All Shook Up' is a charmer by Judith Newmark St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The Muny continues this exceptionally polished season with a show that's never been here before, "All Shook Up!"

SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 10:54PM[SHARE]
Thursday, July 13, 2017
Wednesday, July 12, 2017

Writer Carter Lewis shines at LaBute New Theater Festival by Judith Newmark St. Louis Post-Dispatch

His political play "Percentage America" tells a short, gripping story

SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 09:24PM[SHARE]
Tuesday, July 11, 2017

Classic movies make raucous comedy at Magic Smoking Monkey by Judith Newmark St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Magic Smoking Monkey Theatre spoofs great American movies

SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 09:18PM[SHARE]
Monday, July 10, 2017

Insight Theatre Company brings something old to its new home by Judith Newmark St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Pretty far into "On Golden Pond," Ethel Thayer (Susie Wall) reminds her husband, Norman (Joneal Joplin), that he's always been obsessed with death. It's not just because they're marking his …

SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 09:04PM[SHARE]
Saturday, July 8, 2017

Muny actor's last-minute leading role is a dream come true by Judith Newmark St. Louis Post-Dispatch

In "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum," Jeffrey Schecter gives his all.

SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 07:24PM[SHARE]
Friday, July 7, 2017

'Mortified' podcast shares the shame in St. Louis by Judith Newmark St. Louis Post-Dispatch

For the first time, Dave Nadelberg brings his international cult hit "Mortified" to town

SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 08:32PM[SHARE]
Thursday, July 6, 2017
Wednesday, July 5, 2017

Magic Smoking Monkey Theatre fast-forwards through AFI's '100 Greatest Films of All Time' by Judith Newmark St. Louis Post-Dispatch

St. Louis Shakespeare's Magic Smoking Monkey Theatre has its way with classic films

SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 03:42PM[SHARE]
Friday, June 30, 2017
Tuesday, June 27, 2017

Playhouse introduces two subscription series next season by Judith Newmark St. Louis Post-Dispatch

One series concentrates on comedies, the other on tribute shows

SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 10:48PM[SHARE]
Friday, June 23, 2017
Wednesday, June 21, 2017

An appealing Muny show dives 'Under the Sea' by Judith Newmark St. Louis Post-Dispatch

'The Little Mermaid' offers good performances and beautiful ensemble numbers

SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 06:18PM[SHARE]
Tuesday, June 20, 2017

St. Louis-area students go to New York for the Jimmy Awards by Judith Newmark St. Louis Post-Dispatch

For the first time, St. Louis schools and students are involved in the musical theater awards

SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 04:42PM[SHARE]
Sunday, June 18, 2017

Muny stages 'The Little Mermaid,' a father-daughter tale by Judith Newmark St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Triton and Ariel suffer through the teen years, just like everybody else

SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 01:42AM[SHARE]

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