Sunday, September 1, 2013
I saw a couple of cool theatre things in August that have ended, but wanted to give a little shout-out to, so let's start with…COMPLICATED LIVES: AN EVENING OF SHORT PLAYSStray Dog Theatre…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 06:47AM[SHARE]Monday, August 26, 2013
You think you've got a messed up family? Think again. Max & Louie Productions closes its 2013 season with a brutally comedic look at one of the most caustic families you're l…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 12:19AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 18, 2013
Insight Theatre continues its season with a thoughtful character study of sorts by Pulitzer Prize winning playwright, Donald Margulies. A couple of his plays that I've seen before ("Co…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 04:05AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 11, 2013
There's another new theatre company on the scene, folks -- Theatre Lab, and according to the "About" section provided in the program, the "Lab" part of its title "…indicates that our compa…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 04:06PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 7, 2013
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 Lapi…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 02:05AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 31, 2013
"Legally Blonde, The Musical" was adapted from the 2001 film and premiered on Broadway in 2007 after a San Francisco tryout. This female empowerment flavored confection about Elle Wood…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 09:48PM[SHARE]Saturday, July 27, 2013
Part two of the LaBute New Theater festival started last Friday with the second set of four new plays that will run until the 28th, along with LaBute's "The Possible", written especially for…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 04:23PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 21, 2013
Roger Corman's 1960 low-budget cult classic about a nebbishy flower shop employee named Seymour who raises a carnivorous plant, inspired a long-running off-Broadway production with book and …
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 04:15PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 11, 2013
Tony-nominated playwright and screenwriter Neil LaBute's plays include, "In the Company of Men", "The Shape of Things", "Fat Pig", "reasons to be pretty" and "Reasons to Be Happy", that just…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 02:55AM[SHARE]Saturday, June 29, 2013
Just in time for the 4th of July Holiday, 1776 looks back at the efforts to establish a new nation of independent states, breaking away from the rule of the British Empire. Although th…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 06:24PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 26, 2013
Shrek The Musical, based on the 2001 animated DreamWorks film that was in turn loosely based on William Steig's picture book, Shrek!, is making its Muny debut. This story about an ogre…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 04:06AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 23, 2013
The second annual St. Lou Fringe has come and gone and although there were over two dozen performances varying from theatre and dance to workshops, music and street performances, I was only …
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 10:54PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 19, 2013
A musical about a transgender singer from East Berlin? You bet! Hedwig became an off-Broadway hit in 1998 after gathering a cult following and ran for two years, inspiring a film…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 10:31PM[SHARE]Monday, June 17, 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…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 11:59PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 16, 2013
Where 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…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 02:21PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 12, 2013
Stray 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…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 04:54PM[SHARE]Monday, June 10, 2013
R-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 in…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 05:54AM[SHARE]Saturday, June 8, 2013
Insight 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…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 12:39PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 4, 2013
New 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…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 01:41PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 2, 2013
The 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 patte…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 12:06AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 28, 2013
Lisa 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…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 08:52AM[SHARE]Sunday, May 26, 2013
Playwright 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…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 08:57AM[SHARE]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…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 05:30AM[SHARE]Sunday, May 19, 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…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 12:18PM[SHARE]Saturday, 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…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 11:47AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 30, 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…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 11:52PM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 01:57PM[SHARE]Friday, April 12, 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…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 10:51PM[SHARE]Monday, April 8, 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 Gonzal…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 08:45PM[SHARE]Thursday, 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…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 06:49PM[SHARE]Monday, March 25, 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…
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