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…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 10:02PMTuesday, March 19, 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…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 11:58PMSunday, 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…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 04:44AMTuesday, 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…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 08:27AMTuesday, 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…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 11:56AMSaturday, 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…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 07:41PMTuesday, 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…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 10:58PMSaturday, 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…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 10:45AMSaturday, 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…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 06:39PMThursday, 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…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 10:04PMWednesday, 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…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 09:21PMSunday, 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…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 12:46AMThursday, 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…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 02:00AMFriday, 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…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 03:02AMWednesday, December 12, 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.&…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 09:43PMSunday, 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…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 12:14AMTuesday, December 4, 2012
Tristram Kenton has exclusive behind-the-scenes access to the Menier Chocolate Factory's new production, from early run-throughs to dress rehearsalJason PhippsKarin Andreasson
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04AMMonday, December 3, 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…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 08:39PMWednesday, 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…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 08:55AMThursday, 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…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 01:21AMTuesday, 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…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 09:46PMTuesday, October 23, 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 …
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 11:26PMMonday, 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…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 08:22AMMonday, 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…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 01:03AMMonday, October 1, 2012
I can hardly think of a better way to catch a break from the onslaught of this year's presidential campaign than to check out this saucy, contemporary, in-your-face look at our seventh presi…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 11:37PMFriday, September 21, 2012
As the plays opens, married couple Gabe (Christopher Hickey) and Karen (Michelle Hand) are telling their good friend Beth (Sarah Cannon) all of the details about their latest vacation. …
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 09:01AMSunday, September 16, 2012
This play was first introduced at HotCity's GreenHouse Festival, where new plays are workshopped and shown to the public. Now, here we are, a few years later, and Goodbye, Ruby Tuesday…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 08:12AMSunday, September 9, 2012
The last joint production of Soundstage and R-S Theatrics is quite a challenging choice. Adapted from Elmer Rice's 1923 Expressionistic play, the musical premiered at the Next Theatre …
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 11:43AMThursday, September 6, 2012
The title of this 1982 play that ushers in the sixth season of Mustard Seed Theatre, was an American idiom that indicated overwhelming emotion, and according to Belle "Maw" Wheeler (Nancy Le…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 01:34PMMonday, August 27, 2012
"It's that time -- that wonderful New York hour when the evening's about to reward you for that day". This quote from one of the characters, Denis McCleary, is how he explains the…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 09:44AMMonday, August 20, 2012
My buddy Lisa and me,pre- half-time show!Nice pants, right?!Okay so first of all, it's not really my birthday anymore, but close enough! Being a few days into my 46th birthday and all …
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 01:40AM 
