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.…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 08:30AM[SHARE]Friday, June 3, 2016
Siobhan, in a cast after injuring her hand in a bicycle accident in Brooklyn, finds taking showers too cumbersome, so she's been taking baths in the houses of friends, and in this uniquely i…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 04:13AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 2, 2016
This is not your aba's Yentl. Probably most closely associated with the 1983 vanity project movie musical -- directed, co-written, co-produced, and starring Barbra Streisand, this version is…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 09:57AM[SHARE]Sunday, May 15, 2016
"The Two Character Play," one of the many offerings during this year's inaugural Tennessee Williams Festival St. Louis, is one of Williams's later works, and performed in The Learning Center…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 04:48AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 5, 2016
Equally Represented Arts is back with another enveloping, innovative production that places Shakespeare's Macbeth as its spine, and includes excerpts ranging from Emily Post's Etiquette and …
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 07:52AM[SHARE]Saturday, April 30, 2016
Nikolai Ivanov, and most of his countrymen, are suffering from numbing boredom. But Ivanov is not only bored as hell, he's irascible. He disparages just about everyone who crosses his path, …
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 06:36PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 19, 2016
That Uppity Theatre Company and Vital VOICE were back again last weekend for "Briefs: A Festival of Short LGBTQ plays," presenting eight works selected from over 200 nation-wide submissions.…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 03:33PM[SHARE]Friday, April 8, 2016
Stray Dog's latest production has every bit the vibe of a rock concert when you walk into the theatre. The band, typically secluded somewhere behind the set, is front and center, warming up …
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 06:37AM[SHARE]Monday, April 4, 2016
Jon Marans' Pulitzer Prize-nominated play offers a lot of layers underneath a facade that seems, initially, predictable. Stephen Hoffman is a 25 year old piano prodigy who's burned out, and …
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 05:31AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 27, 2016
In the 1980's, the threat of nuclear war hung heavy over the country like radioactive ash. That threat, and Liane Ellison Norman's book, Hammer of Justice, inspired Tammy Ryan's play, receiv…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 02:46PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 22, 2016
Another St. Louis Theater Circle Awards ceremony has come and gone, and the award recipients, as well as the impressive bevy of nominees, are a testament to the talent we're lucky enough to …
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 01:24PM[SHARE]Saturday, March 12, 2016
The fury that simmers within generations of young adults is nothing new, but New Line's current production of Green Day's "American Idiot," adapted from the band's 2004 concept album of the …
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 10:10AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 18, 2016
Stray Dog's latest production, a two-act play written in 1979 by Peter Colley, has a familiar assortment of promising, hair-raising set-ups. The Sanderson couple, Greg and Jan (Jeff Kargus a…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 09:54AM[SHARE]Saturday, February 13, 2016
A library book that's 113 years overdue sets the action off in Glen Berger's 2001, one-actor play in NJT's latest production. Our protagonist, a Dutch Librarian, is determined to hunt down w…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 05:37AM[SHARE]Friday, January 29, 2016
The nominations are out! Here's the full list of this year's fourth annual St. Louis Theater Circle Awards nominees. The ceremony will be on Monday, March 21st at a new location -- the Skip …
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 09:13PM[SHARE]Saturday, January 16, 2016
If you think the recent holidays were stressful for your family, trust me -- it's nothing compared to the rancor going on in James Goldman's 1966 dramatic comedy, "The Lion in Winter." Histo…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 12:58AM[SHARE]Monday, December 14, 2015
You won't find any elves or sugary confections in Stray Dog Theatre's traditionally, non-traditional holiday show. What you will find is Buddy Thomas and Kenneth Elliott's camp-tacular, 1950…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 04:27AM[SHARE]Sunday, December 6, 2015
Playwright Rajiv Joseph's 2008 drama places a delicate art at its center. Origami, with its precise execution of intricate folds, makes a fitting prism to look through at three people, suffe…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 11:09AM[SHARE]Monday, November 9, 2015
Patrick Barlow's 2005 spy spoof was adapted from a couple of sources -- John Buchan's 1915 adventure novel, and its later incarnation as Alfred Hitchcock's 1935 thriller flick, and SATE is c…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 11:20AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 5, 2015
"I and this mystery here we stand." This is the first thing Anthony (Reynaldo Piniella) says to Caroline (Danielle Carlacci) in the Rep's Studio Series opener, written by Lauren Gunderson. I…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 09:15PM[SHARE]Friday, October 30, 2015
The Fox Theatre's regional premiere of "Matilda," a British import that has won multiple awards, has the power of knowledge and empowerment at its heart, with a little genius at its center, …
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 06:19AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 22, 2015
It's the perfect time of year for the Rep's current Mainstage production -- right when Autumn's chill starts to set in. Patrick Hamilton's dramatic thriller premiered on the West End in…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 07:22AM[SHARE]Monday, October 19, 2015
"Dogfight" takes place in November, 1963, as a group of rambunctious young Marines, fresh out of boot-camp, head out for a testosterone-fueled night on the town in San Francisco before they …
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 05:45AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 13, 2015
"People will look at the ashes of Westerburg and say, 'Now there's a school that self-destructed, not because society didn't care, but because the school was society."' That line that J.D. s…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 02:52AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 29, 2015
What happens when you put four hopeful writers, eager to be published, in a room with a once acclaimed novelist? Well, the punchline in Theresa Rebeck's 2011 play is laced with a constant cu…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 03:41PM[SHARE]Sunday, September 27, 2015
Last weekend, Shakespeare in the Streets took to Old North St. Louis -- at the intersection of N. 14th and Montgomery streets, to be exact. For the past four years, Shakespeare Festival St. …
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 02:15AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 22, 2015
Civil rights, the Constitution, race riots and the bare-knuckle business of politics. If you didn't know any better, you'd think that the focal points that take center stage in Robert Schenk…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 06:28AM[SHARE]Monday, September 7, 2015
Anne Washburn's 2012 three-act play begins sometime in "the very near future," after an apocalypse of nuclear proportions. The group of survivors in "Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play" travel …
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 06:42PM[SHARE]Saturday, August 29, 2015
SATE's mid-season production of Naomi Wallace's "One Flea Spare" feels aptly at home in the intimate space of The Chapel. Her introspective account of the inhabitants in a home under a 28-da…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 02:25PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 26, 2015
"Spellbound! A Musical Fable" was originally conceived in 1994 by Stray Dog's artistic director, Gary F. Bell and Robert L. White. Recently taken off the shelf and given the once-over, Bell …
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 07:39PM[SHARE]Saturday, August 8, 2015
Henrik Ibsen's classic drama, "Hedda Gabler," premiered in 1891, but Jeff Whitty's 2012 comedy picks up where Ibsen's left off, with Hedda (Emily Baker), just having put a bullet in her head…
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