Monday, January 9, 2012
Wow. It's been a long time since I've been to a show. Hello again, theatre. I've missed you…Next in the Fox's Broadway series is a show based on Jean Poiret's 1973 play t…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 01:43PMFriday, December 30, 2011
Hello again theatre peeps, and Happy Holidays! You know what the Holiday season brings -- among many other things, it's also typically when I ramble on about random stuff, so here goes…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 04:37AMSaturday, December 10, 2011
Samuel Beckett wrote of his character in KRAPP'S LAST TAPE, "Krapp has nothing to talk to but his dying self and nothing to talk to him but his dead one." This hour-long, one-act,…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 07:20PMWednesday, December 7, 2011
The plays I've seen from The New Jewish Theatre often seem to be these intimate little "slice of life" affairs that offer lessons that sneak up on you. This 1997 Tony Award winning pla…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 03:15AMWednesday, November 23, 2011
A musical about the New Testament? Sure, why not?! Originating as a thesis project that ended up running Off-Broadway at the Cherry Lane Theatre in 1971 (where it ran for 5 years…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 02:42AMWednesday, November 16, 2011
Charles Marowitz's fictional account of a rivalry between two real-life figures, playwrights Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare, is an intriguing, slick little play, and under …
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 08:17PMTuesday, November 8, 2011
Muddy Waters closes their 2011 season with Paula Vogel's 1998 Pulitzer Prize winning comedic drama, HOW I LEARNED TO DRIVE. Vogel's incredible script deals with some very unfunny thing…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 10:57PMThursday, November 3, 2011
The latest play on offer from R-S Theatrics, written by Rajiv Joseph, looks at the relationship of Kayleen (Christina Rios) and Doug (Mark Kelley) over the course of 30 years. These tw…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 11:37AMTuesday, November 1, 2011
So, while everyone else in St. Louis was watching the World Series (Yay, Cards!), I was in an acting class -- room #107 at the Shirley Community Center in Shirley, Vermont. This is the…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 11:07AMFriday, October 21, 2011
All of us have, at some point, had one of those, "Man, what an effed up evening that was! What the hell just happened?" kind of experiences. This play is kinda like that. W…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 01:30PMThursday, October 13, 2011
Ooo, I love a good courtroom drama. And there's a fine one going on right now at the Gaslight Theater, kicking off St. Louis Actors’ Studio's season. Possibly best known f…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 04:35PMSaturday, October 8, 2011
Take a young boy, nullified into a practically catatonic state by witnessing a violent act at home, abuse from a vile uncle and a vicious cousin, a pinball machine, a rise to messianic fame …
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 05:42PMSaturday, October 1, 2011
The Addams Family began in 1938 as a series of single panel cartoons published in The New Yorker, created by cartoonist Charles Addams. Since then, they have been adapted into a televi…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 05:44PMFriday, September 30, 2011
A clever look at the bawdy, naughty film star, Mae West, is what's on offer at Dramatic License Productions. Mae West was a true icon, and a pioneer when she started out in vaudeville.…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 02:15AMSunday, September 25, 2011
New Line's season opener rocks. Literally. Never letting you forget you're watching a play, PASSING STRANGE challenges the preconceptions about what a musical is -- a musical for…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 01:11PMWednesday, September 21, 2011
So, how does winning a butt-load of cash in the lottery change your life? Or more intriguingly, what temptations and behaviors do new-found financial freedom uncover? That's at the cen…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 07:36PMThursday, September 15, 2011
"What do you see?"That's the first question painter Mark Rothko poses, almost pleads, to his new apprentice Ken in the opening minutes of the Rep's scorching season opener, John Logan's…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 01:32AMSunday, September 4, 2011
With an estimated 1 in 110 kids having an ASD, or Autism spectrum disorder, many of us are familiar with autism to some degree -- in a once or twice removed kind of way. But seeing the…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 04:24PMSunday, August 21, 2011
There's a new theatre company in town folks, and THE CONVERSATION, written by St. Louisan Dennis Corcoran, is The Black Mirror Theatre Company's inaugural performance.
This play focuses o…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 12:05PMTuesday, August 9, 2011
Ah, the class system. It never really goes away, does it? Whether you're in 18th century England or 21st century America, injustice is a timeless subject that Edward Bond conside…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 08:29PMSunday, August 7, 2011
Let me just start off by saying, there is some interesting pre-show chatter that goes on sometimes. "My cousin's uncle got him out of jail". "Yeah, and the prosecuting attorney w…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 01:06AMWednesday, July 20, 2011
In the latest production from St. Louis Shakespeare, Mistresses Ford and Page are up to mischief in Windsor.Sir John Falstaff (Martin Casey) is broke when he visits Windsor, and plans to woo…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 04:56PMMonday, July 11, 2011
Ah, the holidays. Supposedly a time of mirth and merriment for families and friends right? Well, not always. If there's one thing this play about infidelity, love and frien…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 08:15PMFriday, June 17, 2011
After seeing this play, I could hardly wait to rush home and google Tragicomedy. This 1956 play in three acts by Swiss playwright Friedrich Dürrenmatt presents some pretty absurd idea…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 04:29AMMonday, June 13, 2011
In celebration of the big winner tonight… Oh… last night… I felt compelled to post another song from THE BOOK OF MORMON -- the opening number called "Hello!". C…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 04:16AMSunday, June 12, 2011
Well, here on the day of the 2011 Tony Awards, I've finally gotten around to posting about this show -- my favorite from this past NYC trip.I rarely cry at the theatre. It's happened t…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 03:45AMWednesday, June 8, 2011
Not all Jews who escaped the pervasive violence in Russia ended up in Manhattan's Lower East side. About 10,000 ended up in Galveston, Texas through a resettlement program called the G…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 02:14AMSunday, June 5, 2011
Some themes are universal. The high school years tend to expose many of these coming-of-age themes -- especially at a co-ed Catholic Boarding School -- where you might happen to be gay…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 02:58AMMonday, May 30, 2011
I'm not really sure where to even start with this one.SLEEP NO MORE is currently being presented in the Manhattan neighborhood of Chelsea by Punchdrunk, a British theatre company. Thei…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 12:30PMSaturday, May 28, 2011
Okay, so there are gonna be some naughty words in here.Nominated for about a dozen Tonys, this is one of those shows that I felt like I just had to check out. Thank goodness I got a ti…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 12:53PMFriday, May 27, 2011
This powerful 1985 Off-Broadway play about the early days of the HIV-AIDS epidemic in NYC is receiving a striking Broadway revival at the Golden Theatre. THE NORMAL HEART follows a gro…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 01:40PM 
