Wednesday, March 14, 2018
An art installation titled Devil in a Red Dress greets the guests downstairs at the Rep's studio theatre. Featuring the work of visiting Chinese conceptual artist, Lin Bo, the showing is com…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 12:34AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 7, 2018
The racy shenanigans and silly scheming going on among the passengers aboard a transatlantic cruise in Cole Porter's, Anything Goes, offered a welcomed breather from the gloom of the Great D…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 04:19PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 15, 2018
The air in a dreary office lunchroom is thick when Ray finds himself there with Una. They haven't seen each other since their relationship ended fifteen years ago -- when he was 40 and she w…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 08:10PM[SHARE]Saturday, December 23, 2017
Mustard Seed open its 11th season with a revival of the theatre's debut production, Ron Reed's Remnant. It's a post-apocalyptic Christmas story that takes place 75 years after a catastrophic…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 03:04PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 5, 2017
A severed hand sits on the box office desk at the Gaslight Theater -- a little something to get you in the mood for Martin McDonagh's 2010 dark comedy, A Behanding in Spokane, continuing St.…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 02:18AM[SHARE]Friday, November 10, 2017
Spilling out on the 4th floor ballroom of the Centene Center is a YoungLiars revamp of Shakespeare's goriest play, Titus Andronicus. Adapted and directed by producing director Chuck Harper, …
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 04:54PM[SHARE]Sunday, October 1, 2017
Just about everyone is familiar with the infamous story of Lizzie Borden, who went to trial for hacking her father and stepmother to death with a hatchet (or an axe, as the children's rhyme …
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 07:24PM[SHARE]Monday, September 25, 2017
Poor Matt. His relationship with his girlfriend isn't as sunny as it appears, his career as an artist has hit a slump, and there are some really creepy noises coming from his toilet. That's …
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 01:18AM[SHARE]Monday, September 11, 2017
The Rep kicks off its 51st season with Simon Stephens' Tony Award-winning play, based on Mark Haddon's 2003 novel. The Curious Incident revolves around Christopher Boone, a 15-year-old boy a…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 11:33PM[SHARE]Monday, August 28, 2017
There's a malaise that blankets the Serebryakov family estate, and in Rebel and Misfits Productions' second installment in its Immersive Theatre Project series, a private residence in L…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 04:36AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 24, 2017
Life in the New York City borough of Washington Heights is painted with spirited strokes in Lin-Manuel Miranda's Tony Award-winning musical, In the Heights, and R-S Theatrics brings it to th…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 06:33AM[SHARE]Monday, August 21, 2017
ERA's Snow White, presented as the local headliner for this year's St. Lou Fringe Festival, showcases the unconventional whimsy that the company has become known for. Developed and adapted b…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 03:48AM[SHARE]Monday, August 14, 2017
Slightly Askew Theatre Ensemble continues its "Season of Adaptation" with The Color of August, by Spanish playwright Paloma Pedrero. Written in 1988, and translated and adapted for this prod…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 08:48AM[SHARE]Monday, August 7, 2017
Stray Dog closes out its season with an excellent production of Terrence McNally's sweeping musical adaptation, Ragtime. Based on E. L. Doctorow's 1975 novel, it places us at an interse…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 01:22AM[SHARE]Monday, July 10, 2017
The fifth annual LaBute New Theater Festival has chosen five finalists to debut this year, along with five high school finalists that were presented as stage readings this past Saturday. The…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 01:42PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 2, 2017
The fifth annual Grand Center Theatre Crawl kicked off this past Friday in the Grand Center Arts district. With a map and program of performances in hand, patrons were free to rotate through…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 06:54AM[SHARE]Saturday, June 24, 2017
In an unfinished basement somewhere in St. Louis, Andi discovers her brother-in-law in her basement with a man, bound and gagged, and tied to a chair. This is the jumping off point for St. L…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 11:54PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 15, 2017
When Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's concept album was released in 1970, it was a big deal. Considered blasphemous by some, Superstar depicts the last week of Jesus of Nazareth's life thr…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 09:18AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 16, 2017
Anybody hungry?Stray Dog Theatre invites audiences to "Attend the tale..." in their latest offering, Stephen Sondheim's brilliant, meaty musical thriller, Sweeney Todd. With a 2007 film vers…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 07:06PM[SHARE]Friday, March 24, 2017
The fifth anniversary of the St. Louis Theater Circle Awards is in the books, and as always, the number of talented individuals and companies in town never cease to amaze.Congratulations to …
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 03:18AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 18, 2016
For those first hearing this, I'm bowing out of the St. Louis Theater Circle. This is nothing at all personal, as I value all of the new friendships I've made through the Circle, and this in…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 09:52PM[SHARE]Friday, October 7, 2016
Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt's musical is pretty much devoid of any conventional narrative, with roots that reach back to ancient ritual and the winter solstice -- the planet's shortest day …
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 12:44PM[SHARE]Monday, October 3, 2016
Shakespeare in the Streets, one of the outreach programs under Shakespeare Festival St. Louis, celebrates its fifth anniversary this year. Combining a community's individuality and history w…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 11:37AM[SHARE]Friday, September 30, 2016
The Rep's 50th anniversary season kickoff was met with a palpable buzz -- and for good reason. While comfortably residing within the canon of Sondheim musicals, Follies is not often produced…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 10:52AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 13, 2016
Dedicated to presenting thought provoking St. Louis premieres, R-S Theatrics is at it again. R-S opens its "Season of Semi-Requited Love" with a collection of mostly musical one-acts to fill…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 04:49AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 7, 2016
New Line Theatre closed its 25th anniversary season with an unlikely choice. It was an intimate, one-act, one-person musical about a British girl, Emma, living in the States and steering her…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 03:26AM[SHARE]Monday, August 15, 2016
In 1992, Weekly World News published an outrageous, recurring story about a "bat child" spotted in a southern cave in West Virginia. Keythe Farley, Brian Flemming (book) and Laurence O'Keefe…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 02:21AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 14, 2016
In 1975, a documentary by Albert and David Maysles related the story of two cloistered, interdependent, eccentric residents living in a wealthy East Hampton neighborhood. After years of pros…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 04:26PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 3, 2016
When Company opened in 1970, it was considered a "concept musical." Abandoning a linear narrative, its vignettes center around a milestone birthday for Robert, a single guy living in New Yor…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 07:36PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 29, 2016
The origins of the atomic bomb don't initially sound like your typical musical theatre fare. But Danny Ginges and Philip Foxman's Australian import about the unleashing of the world's first …
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 11:58AM[SHARE]Friday, June 17, 2016
Royal nuptials, a romantic mis-match, an amateur theatre troupe, and a band of mischievous fairies in an enchanted wood. What could happen, right? You'll find out in Shakespeare Festival St.…
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