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Friday, June 17, 2016

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM • Shakespeare Festival St. Louis by Andrea

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 S…

SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 08:30AM
Friday, June 3, 2016

BROKEN BONE BATHTUB • That Uppity Theatre Company & The Drama Club Stl by Andrea

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…

SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 04:13AM
Thursday, June 2, 2016

YENTL • The New Jewish Theatre by Andrea

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 …

SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 09:57AM
Sunday, May 15, 2016

THE TWO CHARACTER PLAY • The Midnight Company by Andrea

“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 Learnin…

SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 04:48AM
Thursday, May 5, 2016

TRASH MACBETH • ERA by Andrea

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 an…

SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 07:52AM
Saturday, April 30, 2016

IVANOV • St. Louis Actors' Studio by Andrea

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
Tuesday, April 19, 2016

BRIEFS: A Festival of Short LGBTQ Plays • That Uppity Theatre Company and Vital VOICE Magazine by Andrea

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 submission…

SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 03:33PM
Friday, April 8, 2016

HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH • Stray Dog Theatre by Andrea

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 u…

SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 06:37AM
Monday, April 4, 2016

OLD WICKED SONGS • The New Jewish Theatre by Andrea

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, an…

SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 05:31AM
Sunday, March 27, 2016

MOLLY’S HAMMER • The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis (Studio Theatre) by Andrea

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, re…

SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 02:46PM
Tuesday, March 22, 2016

Fourth Annual St. Louis Theater Circle Awards • Skip Viragh Center for the Arts by Andrea

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 t…

SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 01:24PM
Saturday, March 12, 2016

AMERICAN IDIOT • New Line Theatre by Andrea

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 alb…

SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 10:10AM
Thursday, February 18, 2016

I'LL BE BACK BEFORE MIDNIGHT • Stray Dog Theatre by Andrea

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…

SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 09:54AM
Saturday, February 13, 2016

UNDERNEATH THE LINTEL • The New Jewish Theatre by Andrea

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 …

SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 05:37AM
Friday, January 29, 2016

Fourth Annual St. Louis Theater Circle Awards Nominations by Andrea

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
Saturday, January 16, 2016

THE LION IN WINTER • The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis by Andrea

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.�…

SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 12:58AM
Monday, December 14, 2015

DEVIL BOYS FROM BEYOND • Stray Dog Theatre by Andrea

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…

SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 04:27AM
Sunday, December 6, 2015

ANIMALS OUT OF PAPER • R-S Theatrics by Andrea

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, suf…

SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 11:09AM
Monday, November 9, 2015

THE 39 STEPS • Slightly Askew Theatre Ensemble by Andrea

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 SAT…

SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 11:20AM
Thursday, November 5, 2015

I AND YOU • The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis (Studio Theatre) by Andrea

“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 Gunder…

SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 09:15PM
Friday, October 30, 2015

MATILDA THE MUSICAL • The Fox by Andrea

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 ce…

SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 06:19AM
Thursday, October 22, 2015

ANGEL STREET (GASLIGHT) • The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis by Andrea

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…

SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 07:22AM
Monday, October 19, 2015

DOGFIGHT • Stray Dog Theatre by Andrea

“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 t…

SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 05:45AM
Tuesday, October 13, 2015

HEATHERS • New Line Theatre by Andrea

“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 tha…

SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 02:52AM
Tuesday, September 29, 2015

SEMINAR • St. Louis Actors' Studio by Andrea

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 …

SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 03:41PM
Sunday, September 27, 2015

THE WORLD BEGUN • Shakespeare in the Streets: Old North St. Louis by Andrea

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
Tuesday, September 22, 2015

ALL THE WAY • The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis by Andrea

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 Sc…

SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 06:28AM
Monday, September 7, 2015

MR. BURNS, A POST-ELECTRIC PLAY • R-S Theatrics by Andrea

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�…

SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 06:42PM
Saturday, August 29, 2015

ONE FLEA SPARE • Slightly Askew Theatre Ensemble by Andrea

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…

SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 02:25PM
Wednesday, August 26, 2015

SPELLBOUND! A MUSICAL FABLE • Stray Dog Theatre by Andrea

“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,…

SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 07:39PM
Saturday, August 8, 2015

THE FURTHER ADVENTURES OF HEDDA GABLER • St. Louis Shakespeare by Andrea

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 i…

SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 06:08PM

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May 30, 2023: Grey House - Lyceum Theatre
Jun 26, 2023: Just For Us - Hudson Theatre
Jul 24, 2023: The Cottage - Hayes Theater
Nov 16, 2023: Spamalot - St. James Theatre
Dec 18, 2023: Appropriate - Hayes Theater
Mar 07, 2024: Doubt - Todd Haimes Theatre
Apr 14, 2024: Lempicka - Longacre Theatre
Apr 17, 2024: The Wiz - Marquis Theatre
Apr 18, 2024: Suffs - Music Box Theatre
Apr 25, 2024: Mother Play - Hayes Theater
Jun 10, 2024: The Drama Desk Awards